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A new method of determining galaxy star-formation histories (SFHs) is presented. Using the method, the feasibility of recovering SFHs with multi-band photometry is investigated. The method divides a galaxy's history into discrete time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Dye

We investigate the optimal approach for recovering the star formation histories (SFHs) and spatial distribution of stellar mass in high-redshift galaxies ($z\sim 2-5$), focusing on the impact of assumed SFH models on derived galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-20 Moein Mosleh , Mohammad Riahi-Zamin , Sandro Tacchella

The star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies contain imprints of the physical processes responsible for regulating star formation during galaxy growth and quenching. We improve the Dense Basis SFH reconstruction method of Iyer & Gawiser…

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

We propose a novel method to reconstruct the full posterior distribution of the star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies from broad-band photometry. Our method combines simulation-based inference (SBI) using a neural network trained with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 G. Aufort , C. Laigle , H. J. McCracken , D. Le Borgne , R. Arango-Toro , L. Ciesla , O. Ilbert , L. Tresse , Y. Dubois

Reproducing color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of star-resolved galaxies is one of the most precise methods for measuring the star formation history (SFH) of nearby galaxies back to the earliest time. The upcoming big data era poses challenges…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-17 Yujiao Yang , Chao Liu , Ming Yang , Yun Zheng , Hao Tian

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

Parametric models for galaxy star-formation histories (SFHs) are widely used, though they are known to impose strong priors on physical parameters. This has consequences for measurements of the galaxy stellar-mass function (GSMF),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 A. C. Carnall , J. Leja , B. D. Johnson , R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop , C. Conroy

[Abridged] Although galaxies are found to follow a tight relation between their star formation rate and stellar mass, they are expected to exhibit complex star formation histories (SFH), with short-term fluctuations. The goal of this pilot…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 G. Aufort , L. Ciesla , P. Pudlo , V. Buat

The estimation of galaxy stellar masses depends on the assumed prior of the star-formation history (SFH) and spatial scale of the analysis (spatially resolved versus integrated scales). In this paper, we connect the prescription of the SFH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-31 Shweta Jain , Sandro Tacchella , Moein Mosleh

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies is essential for deriving fundamental properties like stellar mass and star formation history (SFH). However, conventional methods, including both parametric and non-parametric approaches,…

The primary method for inferring the stellar mass ($M_*$) of a galaxy is through spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling. However, the technique rests on assumptions such as the galaxy star formation history and dust attenuation law…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-24 Sidney Lower , Desika Narayanan , Joel Leja , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy , Romeel Davé

Gladders et al. have recently suggested that the star formation histories (SFHs) of individual galaxies are characterized by a log-normal function in time, implying a slow decline rather than rapid quenching. We test their conjecture on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-11 Benedikt Diemer , Martin Sparre , Louis E. Abramson , Paul Torrey

The star formation history (SFH) is a key issue in the evolution of galaxies. In this work, we developed a model based on a Gaussian and gamma function mixture to fit SFHs with varying numbers of components. Our primary objective was to use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Yang Wang , Chengxing Dong , Hengxin Ruan , Qiufan Lin , Yucheng Zhang , Shupei Chen

We present results of a study aiming at shedding light on the specific advantages and limitations of methods to derive star formation histories (SFH) in galaxies using resolved stellar populations and using integrated light, respectively.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Lilly , Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben

Nonparametric star formation histories (SFHs) have long promised to be the `gold standard' for galaxy spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling as they are flexible enough to describe the full diversity of SFH shapes, whereas parametric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Joel Leja , Adam C. Carnall , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy , Joshua S. Speagle

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

We investigate the star formation histories (SFHs) of a sample of massive galaxies ($M_\star \geq 10^{10} \, M_\odot$) in the redshift range $1 < z < 4.5$. We analyze spectro-photometric data combining broadband photometry from HST and JWST…

The star formation history (SFH) of galaxies allow us to investigate when galaxies formed their stars and assembled their mass. We can constrain the SFH with high level of precision from galaxies with resolved stellar populations, since we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-18 Maria Argudo-Fernández , Médéric Boquien , Shiyin Shen , Fangting Yuan , Jun Yin , Ruixiang Chang , Lei Hao

We present Diffstar, a smooth parametric model for the in-situ star formation history (SFH) of galaxies. Diffstar is distinct from conventional SFH models that are used to interpret the spectral energy distribution (SED) of an observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-03 Alex Alarcon , Andrew P. Hearin , Matthew R. Becker , Jonás Chaves-Montero
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