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 …

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 …

The propagation of uncertainties in stellar population synthesis modeling. I. The relevance of uncertain aspects of stellar evolution and the initial mass function to the …

C Conroy, JE Gunn, M White - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The stellar masses, mean ages, metallicities, and star formation histories of galaxies are
now commonly estimated via stellar population synthesis (SPS) techniques. SPS relies on …

Evolutionary population synthesis: models, analysis of the ingredients and application to high-z galaxies

C Maraston - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary population synthesis models for a wide range of metallicities, ages, star
formation histories, initial mass functions and horizontal branch morphologies, including …

The infrared telescope facility (IRTF) spectral library: cool stars

JT Rayner, MC Cushing… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present a 0.8–5 μm spectral library of 210 cool stars observed at a resolving
power of R≡ λ/Δλ∼ 2000 with the medium-resolution infrared spectrograph, SpeX, at the …

firefly (Fitting IteRativEly For Likelihood analYsis): a full spectral fitting code

DM Wilkinson, C Maraston, D Goddard… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present a new spectral fitting code, firefly, for deriving the stellar population properties of
stellar systems. firefly is a chi-squared minimization fitting code that fits combinations of …

Optimization of Starburst99 for intermediate-age and old stellar populations

GA Vázquez, C Leitherer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We have incorporated the latest release of the Padova models into the evolutionary
synthesis code Starburst99. The Padova tracks were extended to include the full asymptotic …

Gaia Data Release 3-The second Gaia catalogue of long-period variable candidates

T Lebzelter, N Mowlavi, I Lecoeur-Taibi… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The third Gaia Data Release covers 34 months of data and includes the second
Gaia catalogue of long-period variables (LPVs), with G variability amplitudes larger than 0.1 …

SDSS-IV MaStar: a large and comprehensive empirical stellar spectral library—first release

R Yan, Y Chen, D Lazarz, D Bizyaev… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first release of the MaNGA Stellar Library (MaStar), which is a large, well-
calibrated, high-quality empirical library covering the wavelength range 3622–10354 Å at a …

The global gas and dust budget of the Large Magellanic Cloud: AGB stars and supernovae, and the impact on the ISM evolution

M Matsuura, MJ Barlow, AA Zijlstra… - Monthly Notices of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We report on an analysis of the gas and dust budget in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Recent observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope …