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We present a Fisher information study of the statistical impact of galaxy bias and selection effects on the estimation of key cosmological parameters from galaxy redshift surveys; in particular, the angular diameter distance, Hubble…

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We perform the first direct cosmological and astrophysical parameter inference from the combination of galaxy luminosity functions and colours using a simulation based inference approach. Using the Synthesizer code we simulate the dust…

Broad-band measurements of flux for galaxies at different redshifts measure different regions of the rest-frame galaxy spectrum. Certain astronomical questions, such as the evolution of the luminosity function of galaxies, require…

We measure the size-mass relation and its evolution between redshifts 1$<z<$3, using galaxies lensed by six foreground Hubble Frontier Fields clusters. The power afforded by strong gravitation lensing allows us to observe galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Lilan Yang , Guido Roberts-Borsani , Tommaso Treu , Simon Birrer , Takahiro Morishita , Maruša Bradač

We present a set of new analytic solutions aimed at self-consistently describing the spatially-averaged time evolution of the gas, stellar, metal, and dust content in an individual starforming galaxy hosted within a dark halo of given mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Pantoni , A. Lapi , M. Massardi , S. Goswami , L. Danese

We test how well available stellar population models can reproduce observed u,g,r,i,z-band photometry of the local galaxy population (0.02<=z<=0.03) as probed by the SDSS. Our study is conducted from the perspective of a user of the models,…

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Galaxy colours are determined for two samples of 6C and 3CR radio sources at z~1, differing by a factor of ~6 in radio power. Corrections are made for emission line contamination and the presence of any nuclear point source, and the data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. J. Inskip , P. N. Best , M. S. Longair

With its exquisite sensitivity, wavelength coverage, and spatial and spectral resolution, the James Webb Space Telescope is poised to revolutionise our view of the distant, high-redshift ($z>5$) Universe. While Webb's spectroscopic…

(Abridged) In a recent work we explored the dependence of galaxy stellar population properties derived from broad-band spectral energy distribution fitting on the fitting parameters, e.g. SFHs, age grid, metallicity, IMF, dust reddening,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Janine Pforr , Claudia Maraston , Chiara Tonini

We review the use of emission-lines for understanding galaxy evolution, focusing on excitation source, metallicity, ionization parameter, ISM pressure and electron density. We show that the UV, optical and infrared contain complementary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Lisa J. Kewley , David C. Nicholls , Ralph S. Sutherland

Recent studies have reported a non evolution of galaxy ages at redshifts higher than $z\sim$ 2.5, as well as galaxies older than the Universe. In this work, a sample of galaxies from JWST and HST was analysed via photometry to further…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Eric E. Martínez-García

As a tool to interpret nearby and high redshift galaxy data from optical to K-band we present our chemically consistent spectrophotometric evolutionary synthesis models. These models take into account the increasing initial metallicity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. S. Möller , U. Fritze-v. Alvensleben , K. J. Fricke , D. Calzetti

The properties of galaxies in the local universe have been shown to depend upon their environment. Future large scale photometric surveys such as DES and Euclid will be vital to gain insight into the evolution of galaxy properties and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 James Etherington , Daniel Thomas

Galaxies can be described by features of their optical spectra such as oxygen emission lines, or morphological features such as spiral arms. Although spectroscopy provides a rich description of the physical processes that govern galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 John F. Wu , J. E. G. Peek

The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is the deepest set of multicolor optical photometric observations ever undertaken, and offers a valuable data set with which to study galaxy evolution. Combining the optical WFPC2 data with ground-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay , Mark Dickinson , M. U. SubbaRao , R. J. Brunner

Deconstructing galaxies through two-dimensional decompositions has been shown to be a powerful technique to derive the physical properties of stellar structures in galaxies. However, most studies employ fitting algorithms that are prone to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 Dimitri A. Gadotti

(Abridged) Age derivation techniques for unresolved stellar populations at high redshifts are explored using the NUV spectrum of LBDS~53W091 and LBDS~53W069. The photometry and morphology of these galaxies suggest they are early-type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Ferreras , S. K. Yi

Physical parameters of galaxies (as luminosity, stellar mass, age) are often derived by means of the model templates which best fit their spectro-photometric data. We have performed a quantitative test aimed at exploring the ability of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Marcella Longhetti , Paolo Saracco , Arturo Mignano

Context. Stochasticity and physical parameter degeneracy problems complicate the derivation of the parameters (age, mass, and extinction) of unresolved star clusters when using broad-band photometry. Aims. We develop a method to simulate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Philippe de Meulenaer , Donatas Narbutis , Tadas Mineikis , Vladas Vansevičius