Stellar atmosphere interpolator for empirical and synthetic spectra

We present a new stellar atmosphere interpolator which we will use to compute stellar population models based on empirical and/or synthetic spectra. We combined observed and synthetic stellar spectra in order to achieve more or less uniform coverage of the (T_eff , log g, [Fe/H]) parameter space. We validated our semi-empirical stellar population models by fitting spectra of early-type galaxies from the SDSS survey