Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 883, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3723
Keywords
galaxies: fundamental parameters; methods: data analysis
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Funding
- US National Science Foundation East Asia Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) [OISE-1613857]
- NSF CAREER Award [AST-1554877]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0402700]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11573013, 11733002]
- NSA [AST-1517006]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah
- Brazilian Participation Group
- Carnegie Institution for Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Chilean Participation Group
- French Participation Group
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo
- Korean Participation Group
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Leibniz Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik (MPA Garching)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE)
- National Astronomical Observatories of China
- New Mexico State University
- New York University
- University of Notre Dame
- Observatorio Nacional/MCTI
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
- United Kingdom Participation Group
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- University of Arizona
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of Oxford
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Utah
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin
- Vanderbilt University
- Yale University
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We present a method of fitting optical spectra of galaxies using a basis set of six vectors obtained from principal-component analysis of a library of synthetic spectra of 40,000 star formation histories (SFHs). Using this library, we provide estimates of the resolved effective stellar mass-to-light ratio (Upsilon*) for thousands of galaxies from the SDSS-IV/MaNGA integral-field spectroscopic survey. Using a testing framework built on additional synthetic SFHs, we show that the estimates of log Upsilon(i)* are reliable (as are their uncertainties) at a variety of signal-to-noise ratios, stellar metallicities, and dust attenuation conditions. Finally, we describe the future release of the resolved stellar mass-to-light ratios as an SDSS-IV/MaNGA Value-Added Catalog and provide a link to the software used to conduct this analysis. (The software can be found at https://github.com/zpace/pcay.)
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