期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 701, 期 2, 页码 1839-1864出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1839
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: stellar content; infrared: galaxies
资金
- National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- NASA LTSA [NNG04GE12G]
- NSF CAREER [AST-0449678]
- Spitzer/JPL [RSA 1277255, RSA 1282692, RSA 1288440]
We present spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling of a sample of 34 K-selected galaxies at z similar to 2.3. These galaxies have near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy that samples the rest-frame Balmer/4000 angstrom break as well as deep photometry in 13 broadband filters. New to our analysis is Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) data that extend the SEDs into the rest-frame NIR. Comparing parameters determined from SED fits with and without the IRAC data we find that the IRAC photometry significantly improves the confidence intervals of tau, A(v), M-star, and SFR for individual galaxies, but does not systematically alter the mean parameters of the sample. We use the IRAC data to assess how well current stellar population synthesis codes describe the rest-frame NIR SEDs of young galaxies where discrepancies between treatments of the thermally pulsating asymptotic giant branch phase of stellar evolution are most pronounced. The models of Bruzual and Charlot, Maraston, and Charlot and Bruzual all successfully reproduce the SEDs of our galaxies with <= 5% differences in the quality of fit; however, the best-fit masses from each code differ systematically by as much as a factor of 1.5, and other parameters vary more, up to factors of 2-3. A comparison of best-fit stellar population parameters from different stellar population synthesis (SPS) codes, dust laws, and metallicities shows that the choice of SPS code is the largest systematic uncertainty in most parameters, and that systematic uncertainties are typically larger than the formal random uncertainties. The SED fitting confirms our previous result that galaxies with strongly suppressed SF account for similar to 50% of the K-bright population at z similar to 2.3; however, the uncertainty in this fraction is large due to systematic differences in the specific star formation rates derived from the three SPS models.
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