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Extragalactic surveys provide significant statistical data for the study of crucial galaxy parameters used to constrain galaxy evolution, e.g. stellar mass (M$_*$) and star formation rate (SFR), under different environmental conditions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Paula Calderón-Castillo , Neil M. Nagar , Sukyoung Yi , Yu-Yen Chang , Roger Leiton , Thomas M. Hughes

We present new Spitzer 3.6 micron observations of a sample of disk galaxies spanning over 10 magnitudes in luminosity and ranging in gas fraction from ~10% to over 90%. We use these data to test population synthesis prescriptions for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Stacy McGaugh , Jim Schombert

In many areas of extragalactic astrophysics, we need to convert the luminosity of a galaxy into its stellar mass. In this work, we aim to find a simple and effective formula to estimate the stellar mass from the images of galaxies delivered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Ivana Ebrová , Michal Bílek , Jiří Eliášek

We derive new empirical scaling relations between WISE mid-infrared galaxy photometry and well-determined stellar masses from SED modeling of a suite of optical-infrared photometry provided by the DR4 Catalogue of the GAMA-KiDS-VIKING…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 T. H. Jarrett , M. E. Cluver , Edward N. Taylor , Sabine Bellstedt , A. S. G Robotham , H. F. M. Yao

The observationally-inferred size versus stellar-mass relationship (SMR) for low-mass galaxies provides an important test for galaxy formation models. However, the relationship relies on assumptions that relate observed luminosity profiles…

We analyze the feasibility to estimate the stellar mass of galaxies by mid-infrared luminosities based on a large sample of galaxies cross-identified from $Spitzer$ SWIRE fields and SDSS spectrographic survey. We derived the formulae to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yi-Nan Zhu , Hong Wu , Hai-Ning Li , Chen Cao

Recent work has suggested that mid-IR wavelengths are optimal for estimating the mass-to-light ratios of stellar populations and hence the stellar masses of galaxies. We compare stellar masses deduced from spectral energy distribution (SED)…

We use a large sample of galaxies from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to calculate galaxy luminosity and stellar mass functions in the local Universe. We estimate k-corrections, evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Eric F. Bell , Daniel H. McIntosh , Neal Katz , Martin D. Weinberg

We fit model spectral energy distributions to each pixel in 67 nearby (<z>=0.0057) galaxies using broadband photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and GALEX. For each galaxy, we compare the stellar mass derived by summing the mass of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Robert Sorba , Marcin Sawicki

We present a photometric halo mass estimation technique for local galaxies that enables us to establish the stellar mass-halo mass (SMHM) relation down to stellar masses of 10$^5$ M$_\odot$. We find no detectable differences among the SMHM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Dennis Zaritsky , Peter Behroozi

Submillimetre (submm) galaxies are among the most rapidly star-forming and most massive high-redshift galaxies; thus, their properties provide important constraints on galaxy evolution models. However, there is still a debate about their…

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

The accurate measurement of stellar masses over a wide range of galaxy properties is essential for better constraining models of galaxy evolution. Emission line galaxies (ELGs) tend to have better redshift estimates than continuum-selected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Gautam Nagaraj , Robin Ciardullo , Alex Lawson , William Bowman , Gregory Zeimann , Guang Yang , Caryl Gronwall

A galaxy's stellar mass-to-light ratio ($M_\star/L$) is a useful tool for converting luminosity to stellar mass ($M_\star$). However, the practical utility of $M_\star/L$ inferred from stellar population synthesis (SPS) models is limited by…

We calculate stellar masses for massive luminous galaxies at redshift 0.2-0.7 using the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Stellar masses are obtained by fitting model spectral energy…

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

We examine the present-day total stellar-to-halo mass (SHM) ratio as a function of halo mass for a new sample of simulated field galaxies using fully cosmological, LCDM, high resolution SPH + N-Body simulations.These simulations include an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ferah Munshi , F. Governato , A. M. Brooks , C. Christensen , S. Shen , S. Loebman , B. Moster , T. Quinn , J. Wadsley

We report on a new measurement of the luminosity function (LF) and mass function (MF) of field low-mass dwarfs using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry. The final catalog is composed of ~15 million low-mass stars (0.1 Msun < M < 0.8…

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky-Way-mass galaxies from the FIRE project to evaluate various strategies for estimating the mass of a galaxy's stellar halo from deep, integrated-light images. We find good agreement…