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We study the predicted sub-mm emission from massive galaxies in a Lambda-CDM universe, using hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. Assuming that most of the emission from newly formed stars is absorbed and reradiated in the rest-frame…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark A. Fardal , Neal Katz , David H. Weinberg , Romeel Davé , Lars Hernquist

Today's deep high resolution multiwavelength surveys contain a wealth of information about galaxies at different epochs. To fully exploit this information, it is useful to be able to produce highly realistic simulations to compare with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rychard J. Bouwens , Garth D. Illingworth , Daniel Magee

The recent discovery of dusty galaxies well into the Epoch of Reionization (redshift $z>6$) poses challenging questions about the properties of the interstellar medium in these pristine systems. By combining state-of-the-art hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 C. Behrens , A. Pallottini , A. Ferrara , S. Gallerani , L. Vallini

We present the mean spectral energy distribution (SED) of a sample of optically selected quasars (QSOs) at redshifts of $1 \le z \le 5$. To derive it, we exploit photometric information from SDSS, UKIDSS, and WISE surveys in combination…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-19 Federico Bianchini , Giulio Fabbian , Andrea Lapi , Joaquin Gonzalez-Nuevo , Roberto Gilli , Carlo Baccigalupi

Panchromatic spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting is a critical tool for determining the physical properties of distant galaxies, such as their stellar mass and star formation rate. One widely used method is the publicly available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Daniel J. B. Smith , Christopher C. Hayward

The Sparks survey provides rest-frame near-infrared spectroscopy for 93 local massive galaxies spanning the rapid transition from starburst to post-starburst, including Balmer-strong galaxies as well as systems with active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-16 Dalya Baron , David J. Setton , Yilun Ma , J. X. Prochaska , Ric Davies , Jenny E. Greene , Dieter Lutz

We investigate the luminosity functions (LFs) and projected number density profiles of galactic satellites around isolated primaries of different luminosities. We measure these quantities for model satellites placed into the Millennium and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Quan Guo , Shaun Cole , Vincent Eke , Carlos Frenk , John Helly

Spectral energy distribution (SED) models are widely used to infer the physical properties of galaxies from multi-wavelength photometry, but their accuracy is difficult to assess because the true properties of observed galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-25 Zoe R. Jones , Elisabete da Cunha , Andrew Battisti

Understanding the epochs of cosmic dawn and reionisation requires us to leverage multi-wavelength and multi-tracer observations, with each dataset providing a complimentary piece of the puzzle. To interpret such data, we update the public…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 James E. Davies , Andrei Mesinger , Steven Murray

Infrared-luminous galaxies are important sites of stellar and black hole mass assembly at most redshifts. Their luminosities are often estimated by fitting spectral energy distribution (SED) models to near- to far-infrared data, but the…

We use empirical star formation histories (SFHs), measured from HST-based resolved star color-magnitude diagrams, as input into population synthesis codes to model the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of ~50 nearby dwarf…

Broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting is used to study a deep sample of UV-selected sub-L* galaxies at z~2. They are found to be less dusty than L* galaxies, and to contribute more mass to the cosmic mass budget at this epoch…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marcin Sawicki

We compare environmental effects in two analogous samples of galaxies, one from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the other from a semi-analytic model (SAM) based on the Millennium Simulation (MS), to test to what extent current SAMs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas B. Cowan , Zeljko Ivezic

Recent galaxy formation models successfully reproduce the local luminosity function (LF) of galaxies by invoking mechanisms to suppress star formation in low- and high-mass galaxies. As these models are optimized to fit the LF at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-07 Danilo Marchesini , Pieter van Dokkum

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 combine the GALFORM semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, which predicts the star formation and merger histories of galaxies, the GRASIL spectro-photometric code, which calculates the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. Almeida , C. M. Baugh , C. G. Lacey

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

Averaged spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of active and starburst galaxies from the 12 micron sample in the Local Universe and Quasars, from an optically selected sample at a mean redshift <z>=0.7, are built from optical/near-IR/far-IR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paola Andreani , Luigi Spinoglio , Matthew A. Malkan

As a logical next step in improving the radio-to-submm spectral index as a redshift indicator (Carilli & Yun 1999), we have investigated a technique of using the entire radio-to-FIR spectral energy distribution (SED) for deriving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-26 Min S. Yun , C. L. Carilli

Continuum SED models of gamma-ray burst (GRB) and obscured GRB host galaxies at moderately high redshifts are presented and compared with those of superluminous supernovae (SLSN), starburst (SB) and active galactic nuclei (AGN). We consider…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-11 Marcella Contini