The Calibration of Narrow-band Photometry--II. The Gravity and Doppler-broadening Velocity of G and K Giants

Libraries of synthetic stellar spectra – or are we building palaces upon sand?

“…After his first work on synthetic colour for F, G and K stars (e.g. Bell & Rodgers (1969), Bell (1970), Bell & Gottlieb (1971), Bell (1971)), he continued systematically improving the synthetic spectra and the model atmospheres (partly in collaboration with one of the present authors), and also provided theoretical calibrations of Lick indices for population synthesis (Tripicco & Bell 1995). Somehat later, Bob Kurucz was the only colleague who matched the contribution of Bell in this field of research.…”