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5. Summary

K and evolutionary corrections from UV to IR are presented for three kinds of galactic types (E, Sa and Sc) for a number of filters in two photometric systems. Corrections in other photometric systems are available by request (Koo-Kron tex2html_wrap_inline1865 (Koo 1985), Cousins tex2html_wrap_inline1867 (Bessell 1986, also available at CDS), tex2html_wrap_inline1869, tex2html_wrap_inline1871 of Couch & Newell (1980) and 418, 502, 578, 685, 862 of the Durham group (Couch et al. 1983)).

These results are based on an evolutionary synthesis model that successfully reproduces the colours and the shape of the continuum of the various galactic types of local and distant galaxies.

Spectral energy distributions of the different Hubble types are given in a wide spectral range (tex2html_wrap_inline1873 Å) and allow one to compute K corrections for any other photometric system.

Acknowledgements

I wish to express my thanks to G. Barbaro, for suggestions and corrections that improved the text, and to A. Cohen, for helping in typing the tables and enjoying life. This work was supported in part by the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies network set up by the European Commission under contract ERB FMRX-CT96-086 of its TMR programme.



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