2012

Recovering galaxy stellar population properties from broad-band spectral energy distribution fitting

Pforr, Janine, Maraston, Claudia, Tonini, Chiara

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(Abridged) We explore the dependence of galaxy stellar population properties derived from broad-band SED-fitting - such as age, stellar mass, dust reddening, etc.

- on a variety of parameters, such as SFHs, metallicity, IMF, dust reddening and reddening law, and wavelength coverage.
Mock galaxies serve as test particles.
We confirm our earlier results based on real z=2 galaxies, that usually adopted \tau-models lead to overestimate the SFR and to underestimate the stellar mass.

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