Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

NM Förster Schreiber, S Wuyts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever deeper and wider look-back surveys have led to a fairly robust outline of the cosmic
star-formation history, which culminated around; this period is often nicknamed “cosmic …

[HTML][HTML] From galactic bars to the hubble tension: Weighing up the astrophysical evidence for milgromian gravity

I Banik, H Zhao - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Astronomical observations reveal a major deficiency in our understanding of physics—the
detectable mass is insufficient to explain the observed motions in a huge variety of systems …

A population of red candidate massive galaxies~ 600 Myr after the Big Bang

I Labbé, P van Dokkum, E Nelson, R Bezanson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Galaxies with stellar masses as high as roughly 1011 solar masses have been identified,–
out to redshifts z of roughly 6, around 1 billion years after the Big Bang. It has been difficult to …

Hidden little monsters: spectroscopic identification of low-mass, broad-line AGNs at z> 5 with CEERS

DD Kocevski, M Onoue, K Inayoshi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the discovery of two low-luminosity, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at
z> 5 identified using JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release …

PHANGS–ALMA: Arcsecond CO (2–1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies

AK Leroy, E Schinnerer, A Hughes… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present PHANGS–ALMA, the first survey to map CO J= 2→ 1 line emission at∼ 1''∼ 100
pc spatial resolution from a representative sample of 90 nearby (d≲ 20 Mpc) galaxies that lie …

The art of measuring physical parameters in galaxies: a critical assessment of spectral energy distribution fitting techniques

C Pacifici, KG Iyer, B Mobasher… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of galaxy evolution hinges on our ability to interpret multiwavelength galaxy
observations in terms of their physical properties. To do this, we rely on spectral energy …

Stellar population inference with Prospector

BD Johnson, J Leja, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Inference of the physical properties of stellar populations from observed photometry and
spectroscopy is a key goal in the study of galaxy evolution. In recent years, the quality and …

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 …

SPARC: Mass models for 175 disk galaxies with Spitzer photometry and accurate rotation curves

F Lelli, SS McGaugh, JM Schombert - The Astronomical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We introduce SPARC (Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves): a
sample of 175 nearby galaxies with new surface photometry at 3.6 μm and high-quality …

Deriving physical properties from broadband photometry with Prospector: description of the model and a demonstration of its accuracy using 129 galaxies in the local …

J Leja, BD Johnson, C Conroy… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Broadband photometry of galaxies measures an unresolved mix of complex stellar
populations, gas, and dust. Interpreting these data is a challenge for models: many studies …