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This manual accompanies the release of the particle data for 24 simulations of the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation by the virgo consortium. It describes how to download these snapshots and how to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-03 The EAGLE team

Interpreting galaxy properties from astronomical surveys relies heavily on spectral energy distribution (SED) modelling, yet uncertainties in key model ingredients are often overlooked. By leveraging a $z\sim0$ galaxy sample from the EAGLE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Gareth T. Jones , Conor M. Byrne , Elizabeth R. Stanway

The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP) focuses to publish an astronomical multiwavelength catalogue of millions of objects over 1300~deg$^2$ of the Herschel Space Observatory survey fields. Millions of galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Katarzyna Malek , Veronique Buat , Denis Burgarella , Yannick Roehlly , Raphael Shirley , the HELP team

The EAGLE cosmological simulations reproduce the observed galaxy stellar mass function and many galaxy properties. In this work, we study the dust-related properties of present-day EAGLE galaxies through mock observations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-17 Peter Camps , James W. Trayford , Maarten Baes , Tom Theuns , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We present analytic radiative transfer solutions for the spectra of unresolved, spherically symmetric, centrally heated, dusty sources. We find that the dust thermal spectrum possesses scaling relations that provide a natural classification…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sukanya Chakrabarti , Christopher F. McKee

We present spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 41 active galactic nuclei, derived from multiwavelength photometry and archival spectroscopy. All of the SEDs span at least 0.09 to 30 micron, but in some instances wavelength coverage…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 M. J. I. Brown , K. J. Duncan , H. Landt , M. Kirk , C. Ricci , N. Kamraj , M. Salvato , T. Ananna

We present ongoing work on the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), derived from X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, infrared and radio photometry and spectroscopy. Our work is motivated by new wide-field imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 M. J. I. Brown , K. J. Duncan , H. Landt , M. Kirk , C. Ricci , N. Kamraj

We present a new approach to constrain galaxy physical parameters from the combined interpretation of stellar and nebular emission in wide ranges of observations. This approach relies on the Bayesian analysis of any type of galaxy spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Camilla Pacifici , Stephane Charlot , Jeremy Blaizot , Jarle Brinchmann

We present a simple, largely empirical but physically motivated model to interpret the mid- and far-infrared spectral energy distributions of galaxies consistently with the emission at ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elisabete da Cunha , Stephane Charlot , David Elbaz

We present CIGALE (Burgarella et al. 2005; Noll et al. 2009), a software developed at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille to fit galaxy spectral energy distributions from the rest-frame far-UV to far-IR wavelength range, and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-07 Yannick Roehlly , Denis Burgarella , Véronique Buat , Élodie Giovannoli , Stefan Noll , Paolo Serra

For high-redshift submillimetre or millimetre sources detected with single dish telescopes, interferometric follow-up has shown that many are multiple submm galaxies blended together. Confusion-limited Herschel observations of such targets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Todd MacKenzie , Douglas Scott , Mark Swinbank

We present our optical multicolor photometry for the nearby cluster of galaxies Abell 2255 with 13 intermediate filters in the BATC system. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in the optical band for more than 7000 sources are achieved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Qirong Yuan , Xu Zhou , Zhaoji Jiang

Estimating redshifts from broadband photometry is often limited by how accurately we can map the colors of galaxies to an underlying spectral template. Current techniques utilize spectrophotometric samples of galaxies or spectra derived…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 John Franklin Crenshaw , Andrew J. Connolly

We use the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) GOODS-S multi-wavelength catalog to identify counterparts for 20 Lya Emitting (LAE) galaxies at z=2.1. We build several types of stacked Spectral Energy…

The Spitzer Extended Deep Survey (SEDS) as a deep and wide mid-infrared (MIR) survey project provides a sample of 500000+ sources spreading 1.46 square degree and a depth of 26 AB mag (3$\sigma$). Combining with the previous available data,…

A code computing consistently the evolution of stars, gas and dust, as well as the energy they radiate, is required to derive reliably the history of galaxies by fitting synthetic SEDs to multiwavelength observations. The new code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 Michel Fioc , Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange

Interstellar dust grains are responsible for modifying the spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies, both absorbing starlight at UV and optical wavelengths and converting this energy into thermal emission in the infrared. The detailed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fabio Fontanot , Rachel S. Somerville

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

Improving upon the standard evolutionary population synthesis (EPS) technique, we present spectrophotometric models of galaxies whose morphology goes from spherical structures to discs, properly accounting for the effect of dust in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-25 Letizia P. Cassarà , Lorenzo Piovan , Cesare Chiosi