The Disk Mass of Spiral Galaxies
arXiv:0708.1440 · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13295.x
Abstract
We derive the disk masses of 18 spiral galaxies of different luminosity and Hubble Type, both by mass modelling their rotation curves and by fitting their SED with spectro-photometric models. The good agreement of the estimates obtained from these two different methods allows us to quantify the reliability of their performance and to derive very accurate stellar mass-to-light ratio vs color (and stellar mass) relationships.
5 pages, 4 Figures accepted to MN