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Modeling the Panchromatic Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies
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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 pattern, dust mass, grain size distribution, star-dust geometry, and interstellar radiation field. The principal goal of stellar population synthesis (SPS) is to extract these variables from observed SEDs. In this review I provide an overview of the SPS technique and discuss what can be reliably measured from galaxy SEDs. Topics include stellar masses, star-formation rates and histories, metallicities and abundance patterns, dust properties, and the stellar initial mass function.
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- Authors
- Conroy, C.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2013-08-18
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 393-455
- ISSN
- 0066-4146 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4282
- OpenAlex
- W2121516375
- Cited by
- 959
- References
- 305
- FWCI
- 3.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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