Separating Physical Components from Galaxy Spectra by Subspace Methods
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Using subspace methods, we study the distribution of physical components of galaxies in wavelength space. We find that it is valid to assume that the stellar and the gaseous components of galaxies span complementary subspaces. To first order, stellar and gaseous spectral features can be extracted from galaxy spectra through a simple matrix multiplication. By comparing the stellar continua obtained respectively using the model-based and the empirical approach through a commonality measure, we conclude that the latter may lose higher-order spectral features.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0701861,
title = {Separating Physical Components from Galaxy Spectra by Subspace Methods},
author = {Ching-Wa Yip and Alex S. Szalay and Andrew Connolly and Tamas Budavari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0701861},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings for IAU symposium 241, "Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies"