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Mass-to-light versus colour relations (MLCRs), derived from stellar population synthesis models, are widely used to estimate galaxy stellar masses (M$_*$) yet a detailed investigation of their inherent biases and limitations is still…

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By utilizing the spatially-resolved photometry of galaxies at $0.2<z<3.0$ in the CEERS field, we estimate the resolved and unresolved stellar mass via spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to study the discrepancy between them. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-16 Jie Song , GuanWen Fang , Zesen Lin , Yizhou Gu , Xu Kong

We fit model spectral energy distributions to each pixel in 67 nearby (<z>=0.0057) galaxies using broadband photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and GALEX. For each galaxy, we compare the stellar mass derived by summing the mass of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Robert Sorba , Marcin Sawicki

One of the very first steps astronomers working in stellar physics perform to advance in their studies, is to determine the most common/relevant physical parameters of the objects of study (effective temperature, bolometric luminosity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-03 A. Bayo , C. Rodrigo , D. Barrado , F. Allard

We use a large sample of galaxies from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to calculate galaxy luminosity and stellar mass functions in the local Universe. We estimate k-corrections, evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Eric F. Bell , Daniel H. McIntosh , Neal Katz , Martin D. Weinberg

Modern large-scale photometric surveys have provided us with multi-band photometries of billions of stars. Determining the stellar atmospheric parameters, such as the effective temperature (\teff) and metallicities (\feh), absolute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Mingxu Sun , Bingqiu Chen , Helong Guo , He Zhao , Ming Yang , Wenyuan Cui

We estimate the stellar mass for a sample of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) by fitting their multiband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to the stellar population synthesis (SPS) model. The derived stellar masses (log M*/Msun)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-05 Du Wei , Cheng Cheng , Zheng Zheng , Wu Hong

We report on the method developed by Zibetti, Charlot and Rix (2009) to construct resolved stellar mass maps of galaxies from optical and NIR imaging. Accurate pixel-by-pixel colour information (specifically g-i and i-H) is converted into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stefano Zibetti , Stephane Charlot , Hans-Walter Rix

The accurate measurement of stellar masses over a wide range of galaxy properties is essential for better constraining models of galaxy evolution. Emission line galaxies (ELGs) tend to have better redshift estimates than continuum-selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Gautam Nagaraj , Robin Ciardullo , Alex Lawson , William Bowman , Gregory Zeimann , Guang Yang , Caryl Gronwall

Galaxy spectral energy distribution (SED) modelling is a powerful tool, but constraining how well it is able to infer the true values for galaxy properties (e.g. the star formation rate, SFR) is difficult because independent determinations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-26 Christopher C. Hayward , Daniel J. B. Smith

Over the last years a new generation of model atmosphere codes, which include the effects of metal line-blanketing of millions of spectral lines in NLTE, has been used to re-determine the properties of massive stars through quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. -P. Kudritzki , M. A. Urbaneja

Stellar population synthesis (SPS) models have long struggled to reproduce observed optical through near-IR (NIR) spectral energy distributions (SED) of massive quiescent galaxies. We revisit this issue using a novel approach that combines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Jieun Choi , Charlie Conroy , Benjamin D. Johnson

We investigate the optimal approach for recovering the star formation histories (SFHs) and spatial distribution of stellar mass in high-redshift galaxies ($z\sim 2-5$), focusing on the impact of assumed SFH models on derived galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-20 Moein Mosleh , Mohammad Riahi-Zamin , Sandro Tacchella

Measuring the physical properties of galaxies such as redshift frequently requires the use of Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs). SED template sets are, however, often small in number and cover limited portions of photometric color space.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Bryce Kalmbach , Andrew J. Connolly

A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01<z<0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The sample was used to study how early-type galaxy observables,…

We test the efficacy of the energy-balance spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code Magphys for recovering the spatially-resolved properties of a simulated isolated disc galaxy, for which it was not designed. We perform 226,950…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Daniel J. B. Smith , Christopher C. Hayward

Rejuvenating galaxies are unusual galaxies that fully quench and then subsequently experience a "rejuvenation" event to become star-forming once more. Rejuvenation rates vary substantially in models of galaxy formation: 10%-70% of massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-14 Junyu Zhang , Yijia Li , Joel Leja , Katherine E. Whitaker , Angelos Nersesian , Rachel Bezanson , Arjen van der Wel

The translation from direct observables to physical properties of galaxies is a key step in reconstructing their evolutionary histories. Star-dust geometry and inhomogeneous stellar populations can induce spatial variations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-19 Junkai Zhang , Steven Ramnichal , Stijn Wuyts , Cheng Li

We have compiled a sample of 2728 nearby ($z<0.08$) elliptical galaxies with photometry in the $g,r,i,z$ bands from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and $J,H,K$ photometry from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). Stellar masses,…

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between galaxy stellar masses, based on multiwavelength photometry spectral template fitting and dynamical masses based on published velocity dispersion measurements, for a sample of…