Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies to z=0.6: I. A New Method for Physical Parameter Estimation

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Aug, 2011
20 pages
Published in:
  • Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 421 (2012) 314
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We use principal component analysis (PCA) to estimate stellar masses, mean stellar ages, star formation histories (SFHs), dust extinctions and stellar velocity dispersions for ~290,000 galaxies with stellar masses greater than $10^{11}Msun and redshifts in the range 0.4