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Fitting synthetic spectral energy distributions (SED) to the multi-band photometry of galaxies to derive their star formation rates (SFR), stellar masses, ages, etc. requires making a priori assumptions about their star formation histories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. Maraston , J. Pforr , A. Renzini , E. Daddi , M. Dickinson , A. Cimatti , C. Tonini

Parametric models for galaxy star-formation histories (SFHs) are widely used, though they are known to impose strong priors on physical parameters. This has consequences for measurements of the galaxy stellar-mass function (GSMF),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 A. C. Carnall , J. Leja , B. D. Johnson , R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop , C. Conroy

Motivated by the early excess of bright galaxies seen by JWST, we run zoom-in cosmological simulations of a massive galaxy at Cosmic Dawn, in a halo of $10^{11} M_\odot$ at $z = 9$, using the hydro-gravitational code RAMSES at an effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Zachary Lee Andalman , Romain Teyssier , Avishai Dekel

To further our knowledge of the complex physical process of galaxy formation, it is essential that we characterize the formation and evolution of large databases of galaxies. The spectral synthesis STARLIGHT code of Cid Fernandes et al.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Joseph W. Richards , Peter E. Freeman , Ann B. Lee , Chad M. Schafer

The estimation of galaxy stellar masses depends on the assumed prior of the star-formation history (SFH) and spatial scale of the analysis (spatially resolved versus integrated scales). In this paper, we connect the prescription of the SFH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-31 Shweta Jain , Sandro Tacchella , Moein Mosleh

This paper develops a method for obtaining the star formation histories of a mixed, resolved population through the use of color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs). The method provides insight into the local star formation rate, analyzing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Cignoni , S. Degl'Innocenti , P. G. Prada Moroni , S. N. Shore

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 use the photometric information contained in individual pixels of 44,964 (0.019<z<0.125 and -23.5<M_r<-20.5) galaxies in the Fourth Data Release (DR4) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the effects of environment on galaxy…

Massive galaxies are key probes to understand how the baryonic matter evolves within the dark matter halos. We use the "archaeological" approach to infer the stellar population properties and star formation histories of the most massive (M…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-13 Annalisa Citro , Lucia Pozzetti , Michele Moresco , Andrea Cimatti

We have fit the far-ultraviolet (FUV) to mid-infrared (MIR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for several nearby galaxies ($<$ 20 Mpc). Global, radial, and local photometric measurements are explored to better understand how SED-derived…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-31 Madison V. Smith , L. van Zee , S. Salim , D. Dale , S. Staudaher , T. Wrock , A. Maben

To develop galaxy-targeting approaches, the gravitational-wave community built a catalog of stellar mass in the local universe based on the 2MASS spectroscopic and photometric redshift surveys. By cleaning and supplementing this catalog,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 J. Biteau

The stellar populations of galaxies hold vital clues to their formation histories. In this paper we present results based on modeling stacked spectra of early-type galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Charlie Conroy , Genevieve Graves , Pieter van Dokkum

We derive the SFH of MS galaxies showing how the SFH peak of a galaxy depends on its seed mass at e.g. z=5. Following the MS, galaxies undergo a drastic slow down of their stellar mass growth after reaching the peak of their SFH. According…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Laure Ciesla , David Elbaz , Jeremy Fensch

We present coarse but robust star formation histories (SFHs) derived from spectro-photometric data of the Carnegie-Spitzer-IMACS Survey, for 22,494 galaxies at 0.3<z<0.9 with stellar masses of 10^9 Msun to 10^12 Msun. Our study moves beyond…

The epoch when low-mass star forming galaxies (LMSFGs) form the bulk of their stellar mass is uncertain. While some models predict an early formation, others favor a delayed scenario until later ages of the universe. We present constraints…

We derive and analyse the star formation histories of 393 intermediate-redshift (0.1 $\leq$ z $\leq$ 0.9) galaxies with stellar masses between $\sim$10$^{8}$ - 10$^{12}$ M$_{\odot}$. We probe a cosmic time of approximately 6 Gyr and a range…

We present the star formation histories (SFHs) of early-type dwarf galaxies, dSphs and dEs, in the local universe within z=0.01. The SFHs of early-type dwarf galaxies are characterized by pre-enriched, metal-poor old stellar populations,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 Mira Seo , H. B. Ann

We use a robust sample of 11 z~7 galaxies (z-dropouts) to estimate the stellar mass density of the universe when it was only ~750 Myr old. We combine the very deep optical to near-Infrared photometry from the HST ACS and NICMOS cameras with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Valentino Gonzalez , Ivo Labbe , Rychard J. Bouwens , Garth Illingworth , Marijn Franx , Mariska Kriek , Gabriel B. Brammer

On dwarf galaxy scales, the different shapes of the galaxy stellar mass function and the dark halo mass function require a star-formation efficiency (SFE) in these systems that is currently more than 1 dex lower than that of Milky Way-size…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Piero Madau , Daniel R. Weisz , Charlie Conroy