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Comparing galaxies across redshifts at fixed cumulative number density is a popular way to estimate the evolution of specific galaxy populations. This method ignores scatter in mass accretion histories and galaxy-galaxy mergers, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Peter Behroozi , Danilo Marchesini , Risa Wechsler , Adam Muzzin , Casey Papovich , Mauro Stefanon

In this third paper of a series on the precision of obtaining ages of stellar populations using the full spectrum fitting technique, we examine the precision of this technique in deriving possible age spreads within a star cluster. We test…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 Randa Asa'd , Paul Goudfrooij , A. M. As'ad , H. G. El-Mir , L. Begum , A. Aljasmi , O. Almatroushi

We have combined the semi-analytic galaxy formation model of Guo et al. (2011) with the particle-tagging technique of Cooper et al. (2010) to predict galaxy surface brightness profiles in a representative sample of ~1900 massive dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Andrew P. Cooper , Richard D'Souza , Guinevere Kauffmann , Jing Wang , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Qi Guo , Carlos S. Frenk , Simon D. M. White

We study the chemical properties of the stellar populations in eight simulations of the formation of Milky-Way mass galaxies in a LCDM Universe. Our simulations include metal-dependent cooling and an explicitly multiphase treatment of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Patricia B. Tissera , Simon D. M. White , Cecilia Scannapieco

We use the extended Press-Schechter formalism to investigate the rate at which cold dark matter haloes accrete mass. We discuss the shortcomings of previous methods that have been used to compute the mass accretion histories of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Frank C. van den Bosch

Mass accretion is the key factor for evolution of galaxies. It can occur through secular evolution, when gas in the outer parts is driven inwards by dynamical instabilities, such as spirals or bars. This secular evolution proceeds very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Combes

Using new narrowband color observations of early-type galaxies in clusters, we reconstruct the color-magnitude relation (CMR) with a higher degree of accuracy than previous work. We then use the spectroscopically determined ages and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 James Schombert , Karl Rakos

The stellar halos of dwarf galaxies are becoming an object of interest in the extragalactic community due to their detection in some recent observations. Additionally, new cosmological simulations of very high resolution were performed,…

Semi-analytical models (SAMs) are currently the best way to understand the formation of galaxies within the cosmic dark-matter structures. While they fairly well reproduce the local stellar mass functions, correlation functions and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-25 Morgane Cousin , Guilaine Lagache , Matthieu Bethermin , Jeremy Blaizot , Bruno Guiderdoni

We present an analysis of the metal-poor galaxy spectra in the redshift range 0.00574$\leq$z$\leq$0.05368 which were reported by Nakajima et al (2022) in their EMPG (extreme metal poor galaxy) sample. The models account for the active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-03 Marcella Contini

This paper investigates the evolution of the dust-to-metal ratio in galaxies based on a simple evolution model for the amount of metal and dust with infall. We take into account grain formation in stellar mass-loss gas, grain growth by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Akio K. Inoue

We analyze the feasibility to estimate the stellar mass of galaxies by mid-infrared luminosities based on a large sample of galaxies cross-identified from $Spitzer$ SWIRE fields and SDSS spectrographic survey. We derived the formulae to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yi-Nan Zhu , Hong Wu , Hai-Ning Li , Chen Cao

We explore the chemical distribution of stars in a simulated galaxy. Using simulations of the same initial conditions but with two different feedback schemes (MUGS and MaGICC), we examine the features of the age-metallicity relation (AMR),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 O. N. Snaith , J. Bailin , B. K. Gibson , E. F. Bell , G. Stinson , M. Valluri , J. Wadsley , H. Couchman

We model the formation of the Galactic stellar halo via the accretion of satellite galaxies onto a time-dependent semi-cosmological galactic potential. Our goal is to characterize the substructure left by these accretion events in a close…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Facundo A. Gómez , Amina Helmi , Anthony G. A. Brown , Yang-Shyang Li

We present our new, fully-automated method to detect and measure the ages of star clusters in nearby galaxies, where individual stars can be resolved. The method relies purely on statistical analysis of observations and Monte-Carlo…

We study the relation of AGN accretion, star formation rate (SFR), and stellar mass (M$_*$) using a sample of $\approx$ 8600 star-forming galaxies up to z=2.5 selected with \textit{Herschel} imaging in the GOODS and COSMOS fields. For each…

We present a new method to estimate the average star formation rate per unit stellar mass (SSFR) of a stacked population of galaxies. We combine the spectra of 600-1000 galaxies with similar stellar masses and parameterise the star…

If we are to develop a comprehensive and predictive theory of galaxy formation and evolution, it is essential that we obtain an accurate assessment of how and when galaxies assemble their stellar populations, and how this assembly varies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-20 Thomas M. Brown , Marc Postman , Daniela Calzetti

We present several machine learning (ML) models developed to efficiently separate stars formed in-situ in Milky Way-type galaxies from those that were formed externally and later accreted. These models, which include examples from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-19 Andrea Sante , Andreea S. Font , Sandra Ortega-Martorell , Ivan Olier , Ian G. McCarthy

The physical phenomena contributing to the galaxy growth can be tested all the way to z= 1. Galaxy mass, extinction, star formation and gas metal abundance can be measured in a robust way, as well as the distribution of the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Hammer