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The observed properties of galaxies vary with inclination; for most applications we would rather have properties that are independent of inclination, intrinsic properties. One way to determine inclination corrections is to consider a large…

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We report on the method developed by Zibetti, Charlot and Rix (2009) to construct resolved stellar mass maps of galaxies from optical and NIR imaging. Accurate pixel-by-pixel colour information (specifically g-i and i-H) is converted into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stefano Zibetti , Stephane Charlot , Hans-Walter Rix

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

Upcoming cosmological surveys will provide unprecedented amount of data, which will require innovative statistical methods to maximize the scientific exploitation. Standard cosmological analyses based on abundances, two-point and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Farida Farsian , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Carlo Giocoli

Theoretical integrated broad-band colors ranging from far-UV to near-IR have been computed for old stellar systems from our evolutionary population synthesis code. These models take into account, for the first time, the detailed systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hyun-chul Lee , Young-Wook Lee , Brad K. Gibson

Observations of astrophysical objects such as galaxies are limited by various sources of random and systematic noise from the sky background, the optical system of the telescope and the detector used to record the data. Conventional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Kevin Schawinski , Ce Zhang , Hantian Zhang , Lucas Fowler , Gokula Krishnan Santhanam

Fitting parameterized models to images of galaxies has become the standard for measuring galaxy morphology. This forward modelling technique allows one to account for the PSF to effectively study semi-resolved galaxies. However, using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Tim B. Miller , Pieter van Dokkum

We present an enhanced unsupervised machine learning (UML) module within our previous \texttt{USmorph} classification framework featuring two components: (1) hierarchical feature extraction via a pre-trained ConvNeXt convolutional neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Guanwen Fang , Shiwei Zhu , Jun Xu , Shiying Lu , Chichun Zhou , Yao Dai , Zesen Lin , Xu Kong

A notorious problem in astronomy is the recovery of the true shape and spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy despite attenuation by interstellar dust embedded in the same galaxy. This problem has been solved for a few hundred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Jared Siegel , Peter Melchior

Masking the horizontal branch and giant stars allows unambiguous measurements of mean age and metallicity in simple old stellar populations from metal and hydrogen line strengths. Billion year resolution is possible in the luminous halos of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jeremy Mould

The goal of this paper is to develop a machine learning model to analyze the main gravitational lens and detect dark substructure (subhalos) within simulated images of strongly lensed galaxies. Using the technique of image segmentation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-27 Bryan Ostdiek , Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin

One of the most relevant problems in the extraction of scientifically useful information from wide field astronomical images (both photographic plates and CCD frames) is the recognition of the objects against a noisy background and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. Andreon , G. Gargiulo , G. Longo , R. Tagliaferri , N. Capuano

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to perform fast classification and detection on natural images and have potential to infer astrophysical parameters on the exponentially increasing amount of sky survey imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Bialopetravičius , D. Narbutis , V. Vansevičius

Galaxy edges or truncations are low-surface-brightness (LSB) features located in the galaxy outskirts that delimit the distance up to where the gas density enables efficient star formation. As such, they could be interpreted as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-20 Jesús Fernández , Fernando Buitrago , Benjamín Sahelices

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

The structural parameters of bulges, disks and bars of a sample of nearly 1000 nearby galaxies are being determined through sophisticated image decomposition in the g, r and i bands. The sample is carefully drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitri Gadotti , Guinevere Kauffmann

Sombrero-like galaxies exhibit unique structural properties that challenge traditional photometric decomposition methods. In this study, we investigate their structural differences using both photometric and kinematic approaches to assess…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-08 Wu-Tao He , Min Du , Zhao-Yu Li , Yuan Li

In this article we investigate the morphology and stellar populations of high-redshift galaxies through multi-waveband HST imaging and ground-based spatially-resolved spectroscopy. We study the redshift evolution of galaxy morphology in the…

We present an enhanced version of the multiwavelength spectral modeling code MAGPHYS that allows the estimation of galaxy photometric redshift and physical properties (e.g., stellar mass, star formation rate, dust attenuation)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 A. J. Battisti , E. da Cunha , K. Grasha , M. Salvato , E. Daddi , L. Davies , S. Jin , D. Liu , E. Schinnerer , M. Vaccari

Broadband photometry of galaxies measures an unresolved mix of complex stellar populations, gas, and dust. Interpreting these data is a challenge for models: many studies have shown that properties derived from modeling galaxy photometry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-14 Joel Leja , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy , Pieter G. van Dokkum , Nell Byler