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