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We present pop-cosmos: a comprehensive model characterizing the galaxy population, calibrated to $140,938$ ($r<25$ selected) galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) with photometry in $26$ bands from the ultra-violet to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-06 Justin Alsing , Stephen Thorp , Sinan Deger , Hiranya Peiris , Boris Leistedt , Daniel Mortlock , Joel Leja

Generative models have proven to be an outstanding tool for representing high-dimensional probability distributions and generating realistic-looking images. An essential characteristic of generative models is their ability to produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Mohamed Elfeki , Camille Couprie , Morgane Riviere , Mohamed Elhoseiny

I review recent SDSS results related to galaxies and large scale structure, including: (1) discovery of coherent, unbound structures in the stellar halo, (2) demonstration that Pal 5 has tidal tails and Draco doesn't, (3) precise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David H. Weinberg

Reliable estimation of stellar surface gravity (log $g$) for a large sample is crucial for evaluating stellar evolution models and understanding galactic structure; However, it is not easy to accomplish due to the difficulty in gathering a…

Elliptical galaxies are believed to consist of a single population of old stars formed together at an early epoch in the Universe, yet recent analyses of galaxy spectra seem to indicate the presence of significant younger populations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ata Kaban , Louisa A. Nolan , Somak Raychaudhury

(Abridged) We explore the dependence of galaxy stellar population properties derived from broad-band SED-fitting - such as age, stellar mass, dust reddening, etc. - on a variety of parameters, such as SFHs, metallicity, IMF, dust reddening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Janine Pforr , Claudia Maraston , Chiara Tonini

Stellar population synthesis (SPS) models are used to infer many galactic properties including star formation histories, metallicities, and stellar and dust masses. However, most SPS models neglect the effect of circumstellar dust shells…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexa Villaume , Charlie Conroy , Benjamin Johnson

Binary population synthesis (BPS) modelling is a very effective tool to study the evolution and properties of close binary systems. The uncertainty in the parameters of the model and their effect on a population can be tested in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Toonen , J. S. W. Claeys , N. Mennekens , A. J. Ruiter

We introduce a practical methodology for investigating the star formation and chemical evolution history of a galaxy: age-divided mean stellar populations (ADPs) from full spectrum fitting. In this method, the mass-weighted mean stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Joon Hyeop Lee , Mina Pak , Hyunjin Jeong , Sree Oh

We present GalSyn (Galaxy Synthesizer), a modular and flexible Python package for generating synthetic spectrophotometric observations from hydrodynamical galaxy simulations. GalSyn employs a particle-by-particle spectral modeling approach…

The determination of stellar populations of galaxies are important for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies, because all galaxies contain many stars and they evolve with galaxies. Spectra data are usually used to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Zhongmu Li

We present a detailed analysis of our ability to determine stellar masses, ages, reddening and extinction values, and star formation rates of high-redshift galaxies by modeling broad-band SEDs with stellar population synthesis. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Stijn Wuyts , Marijn Franx , Thomas J. Cox , Lars Hernquist , Philip F. Hopkins , Brant E. Robertson , Pieter G. van Dokkum

Fitting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies is an almost universally used technique that has matured significantly in the last decade. Model predictions and fitting procedures have improved significantly over this time,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. J. Walcher , B. Groves , T. Budavari , D. Dale

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn

We build the Yunnan-III evolutionary population synthesis (EPS) models by using the MESA stellar evolution code, BaSeL stellar spectra library and the initial mass functions (IMFs) of Kroupa and Salpeter, and present colours and integrated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Zhang , L. Li , Z. Han , Y. Zhuang , X. Kang

Background and Objective: Diabetes presents a significant challenge to healthcare due to the negative impact of poor blood sugar control on health and associated complications. Computer simulation platforms, notably exemplified by the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-09-10 Mohammadreza Ganji , Anas El Fathi , Chiara Fabris , Dayu Lv , Boris Kovatchev , Marc Breton

It is now possible to measure detailed spectral indices for stellar populations in spiral disks. We propose to interpret these data using evolutionary synthesis models computed from the Star Formation Histories obtained from chemical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Molla , S. Cantin , C. Robert , A. Pellerin , E. Hardy

We present a probabilistic formulation of the classical problem of synthesizing spectral properties of a galaxy using a base of star clusters. The problem consists of estimating the population vector x, composed by the contributions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roberto Cid Fernandes , Laerte Sodre , Henrique Schmitt , Joao Leao , .

Stellar mass is a fundamental quantity that determines the properties and evolution of stars. However, estimating stellar masses in star-forming regions is challenging because young stars are obscured by dense gas and the regions are highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Keiya Hirashima , Shingo Nozaki , Naoto Harada

The number of methods used to study the properties of galaxies is increased, and testing these methods is very important. Galactic globular clusters (GCs) provide an excellent medium for such test, because they can be considered as simple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Yu Zhang , Zhanwen Han , Jinzhong Liu , Fenghui Zhang , Xiaoyu Kang