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The stellar mass-star formation rate ($\mathrm{M_*}$-$\mathrm{SFR}$) plane is a fundamental diagnostic for distinguishing galaxy populations. However, the evolutionary pathways of galaxies within this plane across cosmic time remain poorly…

We use the panchromatic SED-fitting code Prospector to measure the galaxy logM$^*$-logSFR relationship (the `star-forming sequence') across $0.2 < z < 3.0$ using the COSMOS-2015 and 3D-HST UV-IR photometric catalogs. We demonstrate that the…

The Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) will gather unprecedented spectro-photometric data on galaxies out to the highest redshifts. It is therefore crucial to identify the spectro-photometric diagnostics within reach of NGST, which will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 S. Charlot

Star formation rates (SFRs) are a crucial observational tracer of galaxy formation and evolution. Spectroscopy, which is expensive, is traditionally used to estimate SFRs. This study tests the possibility of inferring SFRs of large samples…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Satvik Raghav , Prasanth Ayitapu , Sathwik Narkedimilli , Sujith Makam , Aswath Babu H

We perform spatially-resolved, pixel-by-pixel SED fitting on galaxies up to $z\sim2.5$ in the Hubble Extreme Deep Field (XDF). Comparing stellar mass estimates from spatially resolved and spatially unresolved photometry we find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Robert Sorba , Marcin Sawicki

We use the \textsc{astraeus} framework, that couples an N-body simulation with a semi-analytic model for galaxy formation and a semi-numerical model for reionization, to quantify the star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies in the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Laurent Legrand , Anne Hutter , Pratika Dayal , Graziano Ucci , Stefan Gottlöber , Gustavo Yepes

(Abridged) We present a non-parametric cell-based method of selecting highly pure and largely complete samples of spiral galaxies using photometric and structural parameters as provided by standard photometric pipelines and simple shape…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. W. Grootes , R. J. Tuffs , C. C. Popescu , A. S. G. Robotham , M. Seibert , L. S. Kelvin

We present a multi-modal foundation model for astrophysical galaxy data, designed to map between simulation- and observation-based galactic features. Our encoder-only transformer flexibly ingests scalar quantities (e.g., redshifts, galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 Bin Xia , Nesar Ramachandra , Azton I. Wells , Salman Habib , John Wise

We investigate the stochastic properties of typical red galaxy samples in a controlled numerical environment. We use Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modelling to create mock realizations of three separate bright red galaxy samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Nickolas Kokron , Joseph DeRose , Shi-Fan Chen , Martin White , Risa H. Wechsler

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 combine SDSS and WISE photometry for the full SDSS spectroscopic galaxy sample, creating SEDs that cover lambda=0.4-22 micron for an unprecedented large and comprehensive sample of 858,365 present-epoch galaxies. Using MAGPHYS we then…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-10 Yu-Yen Chang , Arjen van der Wel , Elisabete da Cunha , Hans-Walter Rix

Standard spectroscopic analyses of variable stars are based on hydrostatic one-dimensional model atmospheres. This quasi-static approach has theoretically not been validated. We aim at investigating the validity of the quasi-static…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 V. Vasilyev , H. -G. Ludwig , B. Freytag , B. Lemasle , M. Marconi

The aim of the present paper is to quantify the dependence of the estimates of luminosities and stellar mass of early-type galaxies on the different models and model parameters which can be used to analyze the observational data. The paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcella Longhetti , Paolo Saracco

[Abridged] In high density environment, the gas content of galaxies is stripped, leading to a rapid quenching of their star formation activity. This dramatic environmental effect is generally not taken into account in the SFHs usually…

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 Lilly-Madau plot is commonly interpreted as the history of the cosmic star formation of the Universe by showing the co-moving star formation rate density (SFRD) over cosmic time. Therefore, the Lilly-Madau plot is sensitive not only to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-20 Moritz Haslbauer , Pavel Kroupa , Tereza Jerabkova

Robust inference of galaxy stellar masses from photometry is crucial for constraints on galaxy assembly across cosmic time. Here, we test a commonly-used Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) fitting code, using simulated galaxies from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 R. K. Cochrane , H. Katz , R. Begley , C. C. Hayward , P. N. Best

Galaxy formation, viewed as an inference problem from incomplete information, is inherently stochastic. Reducing the full simulation state to a coarse-grained set of variables integrates out unresolved degrees of freedom, motivating an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-29 Daneng Yang

We present predictions of Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs), from the UV to the FIR, of simulated galaxies at $z=0$. These were obtained by post-processing the results of an N-body+hydro simulation of a small cosmological volume, that…