Measuring SEDs for individual galaxy components
Abstract
Our project, `MegaMorph', is developing a next-generation tool for decomposing galaxies, in terms of both their structures and stellar populations. By combining data from UV to NIR wavelengths, accounting for morphological peculiarities using non-parametric components, and utilising efficient likelihood sampling methods, we are working to significantly improve the robustness and accuracy of galaxy decomposition. Applying these new techniques to modern large surveys will provide us with a deeper understanding of galaxies.
- Publication:
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The Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies - SED 2011
- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312009301
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..284..301B
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: fundamental parameters;
- galaxies: structure;
- galaxies: photometry;
- methods: data analysis;
- techniques: image processing