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Retrieving the Star Formation History (SFH) of a galaxy out of its integrated spectrum is the central goal of stellar population synthesis. Recent advances in evolutionary synthesis models have given new breath to this old field of…

Galaxy formation and evolution is one of the most active areas of research in astronomy. In recent times there have been several developments on the observational fronts particularly with the discovery of several relations between galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 Kenil Rajendrabhai Ajudiya

We first presented an isochrone database that can be widely used for stellar population synthesis studies and colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) fitting. The database consists of the isochrones of both single star and binary star simple stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhongmu Li , Zhanwen Han

We present the first version release of SESAMME, a public, Python-based full spectrum fitting tool for Simultaneous Estimates of Star-cluster Age, Metallicity, Mass, and Extinction. SESAMME compares an input spectrum of a star cluster to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-17 Logan H. Jones , Svea Hernandez , Linda J. Smith , Bethan L. James , Alessandra Aloisi , Søren Larsen

We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, but is predominantly designed for generating mock observables…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Christopher C. Lovell , William J. Roper , Aswin P. Vijayan , Stephen M. Wilkins , Sophie Newman , Louise Seeyave

Giant planet evolution models play a crucial role in interpreting observations and constraining formation pathways. However, the simulations can be slow or prohibitively difficult. To address this issue, we calculate a large suite of giant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Simon Müller , Ravit Helled

We present an efficient Bayesian method for estimating individual photometric redshifts and galaxy properties under a pre-trained population model (pop-cosmos) that was calibrated using purely photometric data. This model specifies a prior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Stephen Thorp , Justin Alsing , Hiranya V. Peiris , Sinan Deger , Daniel J. Mortlock , Boris Leistedt , Joel Leja , Arthur Loureiro

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 summarize the principles and fundamental ingredients of evolutionary synthesis models, which are stellar evolution, stellar atmospheres, the IMF, star-formation histories, nebular emission, and also attenuation from the ISM and IGM. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel Schaerer

We present STEEL a STatistical sEmi-Empirical modeL designed to probe the distribution of satellite galaxies in groups and clusters. Our fast statistical methodology relies on tracing the abundances of central and satellite haloes via their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-04 P. J. Grylls , F. Shankar , L. Zanisi , M. Bernardi

The discovery of the first two macroscopic interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the Solar System has opened entirely new perspectives in planetary science. The exploration of these objects offers a qualitatively new insight into the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Dušan Marčeta

Context. Measuring how the physical properties of galaxies change across cosmic times is essential to understand galaxy formation and evolution. With the advent of numerous ground-based and space-borne instruments launched over the past few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 M. Boquien , D. Burgarella , Y. Roehlly , V. Buat , L. Ciesla , D. Corre , A. K. Inoue , H. Salas

We present a new set of stellar interior and synthesis models for predicting the integrated emission from stellar populations in star clusters and galaxies of arbitrary age and metallicity. This work differs from existing spectral synthesis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raul Jimenez , James MacDonald , James Dunlop , Paolo Padoan , John Peacock

Large-scale structure surveys measure the shapes and positions of millions of galaxies in order to constrain the cosmological model with high precision. The resulting large data volume poses a challenge for the analysis of the data, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Silvan Fischbacher , Beatrice Moser , Tomasz Kacprzak , Joerg Herbel , Luca Tortorelli , Uwe Schmitt , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

STARBURST99 is a population synthesis code tailored to predict the integrated properties or observational characteristics of star-forming galaxies. Here we present an update to STARBURST99 where we port the code to python, include new…

Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (COMPAS; https://compas.science) is a public rapid binary population synthesis code. COMPAS generates populations of isolated stellar binaries under a set of parametrized…

We present PEGASE-HR, a new stellar population synthesis program generating high resolution spectra (R=10 000) over the optical range lambda=400--680 nm. It links the spectro-photometric model of galaxy evolution PEGASE.2 (Fioc &…

Synthesis models predict the integrated properties of stellar populations. Several problems exist in this field, mostly related to the fact that integrated properties are distributed. To date, this aspect has been either ignored (as in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Cervino , V. Luridiana , N. Cervino-Luridiana

Optimised population synthesis provides an empirical method to extract the relative mix of stellar evolutionary stages and the distribution of atmospheric parameters within unresolved stellar systems, yet a robust validation of this method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Christopher Barber , Stephane Courteau , Joel Roediger , Ricardo Schiavon

We present a novel method to model galactic scale star formation and the resulting emission from star clusters and the multi-phase interstellar medium. We combine global parameters, such as SFR and CMF, with {\sc warpfield} which provides a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 E. W. Pellegrini , S. Reissl , D. Rahner , R. S. Klessen , S. C. O. Glover , R. Pakmor , R. Herrera-Camus , R. J. J. Grand