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Parameter estimation in astrophysics often requires the use of complex physical models. In this paper we study the problem of estimating the parameters that describe star formation history (SFH) in galaxies. Here, high-dimensional spectral…

Applications · Statistics 2012-03-21 Joseph W. Richards , Ann B. Lee , Chad M. Schafer , Peter E. Freeman

Fitting whole spectra at intermediate spectral resolution (R = 1000 -- 3000), to derive physical properties of stellar populations, appears as an optimized alternative to methods based on spectrophotometric indices: it uses all the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Koleva , Ph. Prugniel , P. Ocvirk , D. Le Borgne , C. Soubiran

The stellar yields for galactic modeling applications (SYGMA) code is an open-source module that models the chemical ejecta and feedback of simple stellar populations (SSPs). It is intended for use in hydrodynamical simulations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-18 Christian Ritter , Benoit Côté , Falk Herwig , Julio F. Navarro , Chris L. Fryer

We investigate the precision of the ages and metallicities of 21,000 mock simple stellar populations (SSPs) determined through full-spectrum fitting. The mock SSPs cover an age range of 6.8 $<$ log (age/yr) $<$ 10.2, for three wavelength…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Randa Asa'd , Paul Goudfrooij

Simulating a survey of fluxes and redshifts (distances) from an astrophysical population is a routine task. \texttt{popsynth} provides a generic, object-oriented framework to produce synthetic surveys from various distributions and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-20 J. Michael Burgess , Francesca Capel

Based on stellar population models without (SSP) and with (BSP) binary interactions, we investigate the effects of binary interactions on parameter determinations for early-type galaxies (ETGs). We present photometric redshift (photo-z),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Yu Zhang , Jinzhong Liu , Fenghui Zhang

We present UV-extended E-MILES stellar population synthesis models covering the spectral range 1680-50000A at moderately high resolution. We employ the NGSL space-based stellar library to compute spectra of single-age, single-metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-06 A. Vazdekis , M. Koleva , E. Ricciardelli , B. Röck , J. Falcón-Barroso

The increasing availability of high-quality optical and near-infrared spectroscopic data, as well as advances in modelling techniques, have greatly expanded the scientific potential of spectroscopic studies. However, the software tools…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Daniele Gasparri , Lorenzo Morelli , Umberto Battino , Jairo Méndez Abreu , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres

Exoplanet surveys have revealed a wide diversity of planetary systems, requiring integrated models of planet formation to explain their origin. Planet population synthesis (PPS) modelling is a key tool for linking theory with the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tadahiro Kimura , Masahiro Ikoma

Stellar populations serve as a fossil record of galaxy formation and evolution, providing crucial information about the history of star formation and galaxy evolution. The color-magnitude diagram (CMD) stands out as the most accurate tool…

Crystalline interfaces are of highly importance in many practical applications. To conduct effective simulation and analysis for coincident site lattice (CSL) interfaces, effective programmes are of high demand in building their CSL…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-29 Yaoshu Xie , Kiyou Shibata , Teruyasu Mizoguchi

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

In recent years, observations have shown that multiple-star systems such as hierarchical triple and quadruple-star systems are common, especially among massive stars. They are potential sources of interesting astrophysical phenomena such as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-19 Adrian S. Hamers , Antti Rantala , Patrick Neunteufel , Holly Preece , Pavan Vynatheya

Starburst99 is a comprehensive set of model predictions for spectrophotometric and related properties of galaxies with active star formation. The models are an improved and extended version of the data set previously published by Leitherer…

We present a series of papers on the year-2012 version of Yonsei Evolutionary Population Synthesis (YEPS) model which is constructed on over 20 years of heritage. This first paper delineates the spectroscopic aspect of integrated light from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Chul Chung , Suk-Jin Yoon , Sang-Yoon Lee , Young-Wook Lee

We have produced a new software package for the simulation of pulsar populations, \textsc{PsrPopPy}, based on the \textsc{Psrpop} package. The codebase has been re-written in Python (save for some external libraries, which remain in their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sam Bates , Duncan Lorimer , Akshaya Rane , Joe Swiggum

We describe a web-based cgi calculator for constructing synthetic color-magnitude diagrams for a simple stellar population (SSP) using the Yonsei-Yale (YY) isochrone data base. This calculator is designed to be used interactively. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-04 P. Demarque , S. N. Virani , E. J. Murphy , J. -H. Woo , Y. -C. Kim , S. K. Yi

We present a detailed analysis of our ability to determine stellar masses, ages, reddening and extinction values, and star formation rates of high-redshift galaxies by modeling broad-band SEDs with stellar population synthesis. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Stijn Wuyts , Marijn Franx , Thomas J. Cox , Lars Hernquist , Philip F. Hopkins , Brant E. Robertson , Pieter G. van Dokkum

In this contribution we investigate how to describe the results and usage of evolutionary synthesis models. In particular, we look for an explicit and quantitative description of the parameter space of synthesis models and the evaluation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-12 M. Cervino , V. luridiana

Current constraints on models of galaxy evolution rely on morphometric catalogs extracted from multi-band photometric surveys. However, these catalogs are altered by selection effects that are difficult to model, that correlate in non…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Sébastien Carassou , Valérie de Lapparent , Emmanuel Bertin , Damien Le Borgne