SELF-CONSISTENT EVOLUTION OF RING GALAXIES

Ring galaxies are commonly known as objects where a burst of star form ation was triggered by a close encounter with an intruder maybe a sate llite galaxy. BVRI CCD observations of five ring galaxies have been pe rformed. Here we present the results of a self-consistent approach to reproduce their observed morphology and spectral energy distribution u sing updated N-body simulations and evolutionary population synthesis models extending from UV to far-IR wavelengths. Some suggestions about the evolutionary properties of these starburst galaxies are then deri ved. (C) 1995 American Astronomical Society.