Modeling the panchromatic spectral energy distributions of galaxies

C Conroy - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies are shaped by nearly every physical
property of the system, including the star-formation history, metal content, abundance …

Galaxy masses

S Courteau, M Cappellari, RS de Jong, AA Dutton… - Reviews of Modern …, 2014 - APS
Galaxy masses play a fundamental role in our understanding of structure formation models.
This review addresses the variety and reliability of mass estimators that pertain to stars, gas …

The saga survey. ii. building a statistical sample of satellite systems around milky way–like galaxies

YY Mao, M Geha, RH Wechsler, B Weiner… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the Stage II results from the ongoing Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA)
Survey. Upon completion, the SAGA Survey will spectroscopically identify satellite galaxies …

How to measure galaxy star formation histories. II. Nonparametric models

J Leja, AC Carnall, BD Johnson, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Nonparametric star formation histories (SFHs) have long promised to be the" gold standard"
for galaxy spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling as they are flexible enough to …

Cold molecular outflows in the local Universe and their feedback effect on galaxies

A Fluetsch, R Maiolino, S Carniani… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study molecular outflows in a sample of 45 local galaxies, both star forming and active
galactic nucleus (AGN), primarily by using CO data from the Atacama Large Millimeter …

How to measure galaxy star formation histories. I. Parametric models

AC Carnall, J Leja, BD Johnson… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Forty-seven Milky Way-sized, extremely diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster

PG Van Dokkum, R Abraham, A Merritt… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of 47 low surface brightness objects in deep images of a 3× 3 field
centered on the Coma cluster, obtained with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The objects …

An older, more quiescent universe from panchromatic SED fitting of the 3D-HST survey

J Leja, BD Johnson, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy observations are influenced by many physical parameters: stellar masses, star
formation rates (SFRs), star formation histories (SFHs), metallicities, dust, black hole activity …

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: instrument specification and target selection

JJ Bryant, MS Owers, ASG Robotham… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The SAMI Galaxy Survey will observe 3400 galaxies with the Sydney-AAO Multi-
object Integral-field spectrograph (SAMI) on the Anglo-Australian Telescope in a 3-yr survey …

3D-HST: a wide-field grism spectroscopic survey with the Hubble Space Telescope

GB Brammer, PG Van Dokkum, M Franx… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 3D-HST, a near-infrared spectroscopic Treasury program with the Hubble Space
Telescope for studying the physical processes that shape galaxies in the distant universe …