Fitting the SEDs of galaxies
Contents
1
Introduction
2
Modelling galaxy SEDs
2.1
Stars
2.2
The ISM around the stars
2.3
Evolution of Galaxies
3
Constructing observed galaxy SEDs
3.1
Spectral response curve and resolution
3.2
Spatial resolution, aperture bias and matching
3.3
Examples of multi-wavelength datasets
4
Methods and validation of SED fitting
4.1
Parametrizing SED models
4.2
Spectral indices
4.3
Principal Component Analysis
4.4
Spectral fitting by inversion
4.5
Bayesian inference
4.6
Method-independent caveats
5
Results of SED Fitting: Photometric redshifts
5.1
Methods
5.2
Calibration and error budgets
5.3
A unified framework
5.4
The State of Photometric Redshifts
6
Results of SED Fitting: Physical Properties
6.1
Stars
6.2
Dust
6.3
Fitting the full UV to FIR SED
7
Conclusions
References