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Super-resolution imaging techniques have largely improved our capabilities to visualize nanometric structures in biological systems. Their application further enables one to potentially quantitate relevant parameters to determine the…

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We propose a new method to infer the star formation histories of resolved stellar populations. With photometry one may plot observed stars on a colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) and then compare with synthetic CMDs representing different star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. J. Walmswell , J. J. Eldridge , B. J. Brewer , C. A. Tout

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

With current and upcoming experiments such as WFIRST, Euclid and LSST, we can observe up to billions of galaxies. While such surveys cannot obtain spectra for all observed galaxies, they produce galaxy magnitudes in color filters. This data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Melanie Simet , Nima Chartab , Yu Lu , Bahram Mobasher

The number density of UV luminous galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope at ultra high redshift ($z \gtrsim 10$) is higher, and declines much more slowly with increasing redshift, than expected from extrapolations of lower…

Determining the physical characteristics of a star is an inverse problem consisting in estimating the parameters of models for the stellar structure and evolution, knowing certain observable quantities. We use a Bayesian approach to solve…

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We use bulge-type classifications of 809 representative SDSS galaxies by Gadotti (2009) to classify a large sample of galaxies into real bulges (classical or elliptical) and pseudobulges using Random Forest. We use structural and stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Hassen M. Yesuf , S. M. Faber , David C. Koo , Joanna Woo , Joel R. Primack , Yifei Luo

Interpreting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of astrophysical objects with physically motivated models is computationally expensive. These models require solving coupled differential equations in high-dimensional parameter spaces,…

Models of Stellar Population Synthesis (SPS) provide a predictive framework for the spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy. SPS predictions can be computationally intensive, creating a bottleneck for attempts to infer the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Georgios Zacharegkas , Andrew Hearin , Andrew Benson

We present an introduction to some concepts of Bayesian data analysis in the context of atomic physics. Starting from basic rules of probability, we present the Bayes' theorem and its applications. In particular we discuss about how to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-01-30 Martino Trassinelli

We constrain the stellar population properties of a sample of 52 massive galaxies, with stellar mass log Ms>10.5, over the redshift range 0.5<z<2 by use of observer-frame optical and near-infrared slitless spectra from HST's ACS and WFC3…

In this work we develop and implement a novel Bayesian method for computing the DOS of a system. This method is based on the use of a test function with adjustable parameters and we use Bayes theorem to find the best parameters given a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-28 Felipe Moreno , Sergio Davis , Joaquín Peralta

We are presenting a novel, Deep Learning based approach to estimate the normalized broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of different stellar populations in synthetic galaxies. In contrast to the non-parametric multiband source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Sándor Kunsági-Máté , István Csabai

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…

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A method is developed for fitting theoretically predicted astronomical spectra to an observed spectrum. Using a hierarchical Bayesian principle, the method takes both systematic and statistical measurement errors into account, which has not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Shkedy , L. Decin , G. Molenberghs , C. Aerts

The presence of spectroscopically confirmed Balmer breaks in galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) at $z>9$ provides one of the best probes of the assembly history of the first generations of stars in our Universe. Recent observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Harley Katz , Nicolas Laporte , Richard S. Ellis , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

We have obtained [Mg/Fe] measurements for 76.3% of the stars in the MILES spectral library used for understanding stellar atmospheres and stellar populations in galaxies and star clusters. These abundance ratios were obtained through (1) a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andre de Castro Milone , Anne E. Sansom , Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez

Understanding the star-formation properties of galaxies as a function of cosmic epoch is a critical exercise in studies of galaxy evolution. Traditionally, stellar population synthesis models have been used to obtain best fit parameters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Shraddha Surana , Yogesh Wadadekar , Omkar Bait , Hrushikesh Bhosle

Background: Many mathematical models have now been employed across every area of systems biology. These models increasingly involve large numbers of unknown parameters, have complex structure which can result in substantial evaluation time…

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