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Spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting of stellar population synthesis models is an important and popular way to constrain the physical parameters ---e.g., the ages, metallicities, masses for stellar population analysis. The previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 Z. Fan , S. Wang

Our goal is to study the existing star formation rate calibrations based on emission-line luminosities and to provide new ones. We use the SDSS data release DR4, which gives star formation rates and emission-line luminosities of more than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-20 B. Argence , F. Lamareille

Understanding the properties and physical mechanisms that shape dust attenuation curves in galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of extragalactic astrophysics, with a great practical significance for deriving the physical properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Samir Salim , Desika Narayanan

We compare observed far infra-red/sub-millimetre (FIR/sub-mm) galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of massive galaxies ($M_{\star}\gtrsim10^{10}$ $h^{-1}$M$_{\odot}$) derived through a stacking analysis with predictions from a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 William I. Cowley , Matthieu Bethermin , Claudia del P. Lagos , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlton M. Baugh , Shaun Cole

Derivation of physical properties of galaxies using spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting is a powerful method, but can suffer from various systematics arising from model assumptions. Previously, such biases were mostly studied in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-27 Katherine Zine , Samir Salim

We present an analysis of 98 galaxies of low-dust content, selected from the Spitzer Local Volume Legacy survey, aimed at examining the relation between the ultraviolet (UV) color, beta, and dust attenuation in normal star-forming galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Kathryn Grasha , Daniela Calzetti , Jennifer E. Andrews , Janice C. Lee , Daniel A. Dale

Dust in spiral galaxies produces emission in the far-infrared (FIR) and internal absorption in visible wavelengths. However, the relation of the two amounts is not trivial because optical absorption may saturate, but the FIR emission does…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 M. Lopez Corredoira , C. M. Gutierrez

We develop and implement an inclination-dependent attenuation prescription for spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting and study its impact on derived star-formation histories. We apply our prescription within the SED fitting code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-10 Keith Doore , Rafael T. Eufrasio , Bret D. Lehmer , Erik B. Monson , Antara Basu-Zych , Kristen Garofali , Andrew Ptak

Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) fitting is a well-developed astrophysical tool that has recently been applied to high-redshift Lyman Alpha-emitting galaxies. If rest-frame ultraviolet through near-infrared photometry is available, it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eric Gawiser

The meaningful comparison of models of galaxy evolution to observations is critically dependent on the accurate treatment of dust attenuation. To investigate dust absorption and emission in galaxies we have assembled a sample of ~1000…

Numerous high-$z$ galaxies have recently been observed with JWST, providing new insights into early galaxy evolution. Their physical properties are typically derived through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting, but the reliability of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Jiyoung Choe , Taysun Kimm , Harley Katz , Maxime Rey , Daniel Han , J. K. Jang , Joki Rosdahl

Star-forming galaxies (SFGs) adhere to a surprisingly tight scaling relation of dust attenuation parameterized by the infrared excess (IRX=$L_{\rm IR}/L_{\rm UV}$), being jointly determined by the star formation rate (SFR), galaxy size…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-01 J. Qin , X. Z. Zheng , S. Wuyts , Z. Lv , M. Qiao , J. -S. Huang , F. S. Liu , A. Katsianis , V. Gonzalez , F. Bian , H. Xu , Z. Pan , W. Liu , Q. -H. Tan , F. X. An , D. D. Shi , Y. Zhang , R. Wen , S. Liu , C. Yang

We study dust attenuation at UV wavelengths at high redshift, where the UV is redshifted to the observed visible. In particular, we search for a UV bump and related implications for dust attenuation determinations. We use data in the CDFS,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Buat , S. Noll , D. Burgarella , E. Giovannoli , V. Charmandaris , M. Pannella , H. S. Hwang , D. Elbaz , M. Dickinson , G. Magdis , N. Reddy , E. J. Murphy

Following from our recent work, we present a detailed analysis of star-formation and interstellar medium (ISM) scaling relations, done on a representative sample of nearby galaxies. H$\alpha$ images are analysed in order to derive the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-12 Bogdan A. Pastrav

We develop a novel approach to measure dust attenuation properties of galaxies, including the dust opacity, shape of the attenuation curve and the strength of the 2175{\AA} absorption feature. From an observed spectrum, the method uses a…

We investigate the stellar and dust properties of massive (log$(M_*/M_\odot) \ge 10.5$) and dusty ($A_V \ge 1$) galaxies at $1 \le z \le 4$ by modeling their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) obtained from the combination of UltraVISTA…

We present results on the dust attenuation of galaxies at redshift $\sim3-6$ by studying the relationship between the UV spectral slope ($\beta_{\rm UV}$) and the infrared excess (IRX; $L_{\rm IR}$/$L_{\rm UV}$) using ALMA far-infrared…

The presence of dust in spiral galaxies affects the ability of photometric decompositions to retrieve the parameters of their main structural components. For galaxies in an edge-on orientation, the optical depth integrated over the…

We have developed a pipeline called \mentari to generate the far-ultraviolet to far-infrared spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies from the \dustysage semi-analytic galaxy formation model (SAM). \dustysage incorporates dust-related…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-19 Dian P. Triani , Darren J. Croton , Manodeep Sinha , Edward N. Taylor , Camilla Pacifici , Eli Dwek

To investigate the nature of starbursts' dust, we constructed a model of the stars and dust in starburst galaxies and applied it to 30 observed starburst spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The starburst model was constructed by combining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. D. Gordon , D. Calzetti , A. N. Witt