Spectral Energy Distributions of LIRGs

We present preliminary results from a study of the SEDs of a complete sample of 65 LIRGs from GOALS. The spectral shapes at λ > 10μm are similar, while the largest variations occur in the NIR (L_1μm^5μm/L_⊙ ~ 1.0-0.01) and UV (L_1μm^0.12μm/L_⊙ ~ 2.0-0.005). Using stellar population synthesis models to fit the UV-NIR continuum data, we derive stellar masses for the host galaxies of log (M_*/M_⊙) ~ 10.2-11.4 with a mean of ~ 10.8.