Stellar Mass Function Parameters
Connection between dynamically derived initial mass function normalisation and stellar population parameters
... It can be seen that the general trends agree with what was inferred above, namely that the IMF becomes systematically ‘heavier’, on average, for galaxies that are older, more metal rich, and additionally, more enhanced ...
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Mapping the core mass function on to the stellar initial mass function: multiplicity matters
... core mass function (hereafter CMF) and the stellar initial mass function (hereafter IMF) both have approximately log-normal shapes, but that the CMF is displaced to higher mass ...
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Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): the star formation rate dependence of the stellar initial mass function
... free parameters in generating model evolutionary tracks and the use of other ...free parameters of P ´ EGASE model does change the position of the evolutionary ...
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Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): the star formation rate dependence of the stellar initial mass function
... the mass range of interest (Salpeter 1955; Baldry & Glazebrook ...resolved stellar populations, the IMF is measured to have a high-mass (m > ...the stellar luminosity function in ...
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Modeling the Mass Function of Stellar Clusters Using the Modified Lognormal Power-Law Probability Distribution Function
... the stellar mass distribution ...free parameters; this in return increases the complexity of these ...3 parameters that can probe both the lognormal body and the power-law tail of the MF as a ...
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Hyper Suprime-Cam view of the CMASS galaxy sample. Halo mass as a function of stellar mass, size, and Sérsic index
... the parameters describing the distribution of Sérsic index and galaxy ...the stellar mass and size measurement used for our study is nev- ertheless minimal: the mass enclosed in the region ...
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The Evolution of the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function at z = 4-8: A Steepening Low-mass-end Slope with Increasing Redshift
... model parameters, they found that the problem of overproducing the number density of low-mass galax- ies at z > 1, which has been known to be common to many theoretical models, can be solved by implement- ...
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Environmental dependence of the galaxy stellar mass function in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data
... galaxy stellar mass function are crucial to understand the formation of galaxies in the ...galaxy stellar masses and absolute magnitudes, and determine the errors on these properties using ...
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An empirical connection between the ultraviolet color of early-type galaxies and the stellar initial mass function
... strained parameters (mass ratio distribution, tidal atmospheric stripping efficiency), they manage to reproduce several key ob- servational characteristics of the UV-upturn population and have the benefit ...
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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the galaxy stellar mass function to z = 0.1 from the r-band selected equatorial regions.
... Because of the incompleteness effects in GAMA, it is desirable to extend this work using future deep large-area surveys if we wish to constrain the GSMF to yet lower masses using a single sam- ple. To demonstrate this, ...
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Investigation of the intermediate and high end initial mass function as probed by near-infrared selected stellar clusters
... 9 mass cut-off. The importance of the upper mass limit is discussed below, along with techniques for determining such a ...basic parameters of the cluster stars, ...
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Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) : the galaxy stellar mass function to z=0 1 from the r band selected equatorial regions
... two stellar mass estimation methods, are shown in ...Schechter function, and that our two samples are in good agree- ment regarding their various fit ...Schechter parameters for each sample ...
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The relationship between the prestellar core mass function and the stellar initial mass function
... 3 Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany Received 9 August 2007 / Accepted 2 November 2007 ABSTRACT Stars form from dense molecular cores, and the mass ...
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The COSMOS2015 galaxy stellar mass function: Thirteen billion years of stellar mass assembly in ten snapshots
... The high-mass end of our SMF declines with a slope similar to the HMF. Such an agreement suggests that massive galaxies at z > 3, which resides in &M ? h haloes, all have similar SHMR (∼2%). However, one ...
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The stellar initial mass function at 0.9 < z < 1.5
... vs. stellar mass plot. We worked with the mass selected sample presented in P´erez-Gonz´alez et ...(SEDs), stellar population and dust emission models for all IRAC sources in ...of ...
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Low Surface Brightness Galaxies and the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function
... the mass esti- mates will be ...initial mass function (IMF) will have on the out- ...a function of their mass within the ...the mass prescribed to a ...low mass stars will ...
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Evolution of the stellar mass function and infrared luminosity function of galaxies since z = 1.2
... luminosity function and stellar mass function (SMF) for red and blue galaxies at z ...and mass function ...K-band mass-to-light ratios as a function of (B−V ) ...
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Reconciling the Observed Star-forming Sequence with the Observed Stellar Mass Function
... 2011; Whitaker et al. 2012). We use the abundance of star- forming galaxies from ZFOURGE to convert the star-forming sequence into star formation rate densities. The implied, global star formation rates vary by a factor ...
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Stellar Mass Function of Active and Quiescent Galaxies via the Continuity Equation
... the stellar mass content of galaxies and exploited to derive the stellar mass function of active and quiescent galaxies over the redshift range z ~ – 0 ...The stellar mass ...
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Luminosity and stellar mass functions of discs and spheroids in the SDSS and the supermassive black hole mass function
... and stellar masses of spheroids and discs can readily be predicted (Kauffmann, White & Guiderdoni 1993; Baugh, Cole & Frenk 1996a,b; Kauffmann, Charlot & White 1996; Kauffmann & Charlot 1998; ...
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