Self-consistent Color-Mass-to-Light-Ratio relations for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
arXiv:2007.08610 · doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab6efb
Abstract
The color - stellar mass-to-light ratio relation (CMLR) is a widely accepted tool to estimate the stellar mass (M*) of a galaxy. However, an individual CMLR tends to give distinct M* for a same galaxy when it is applied in different bands. Examining five representative CMLRs from literature, we find that the difference in M* predicted in different bands from optical to near-infrared by a CMLR is 0.1-0.3 dex. Therefore, based on a sample of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBG) that covers a wide range of color and luminosity, we re-calibrated each original CMLR in r, i, z, J, H, and K bands to give internally self-consistent M* for a same galaxy. The g-r is the primary color indicator in the re-calibrated relations which show little dependenceon red (r - z) or near-infrared (J - K) colors.Additionally, the external discrepancies in the originally predicted stellar mass-to-light ratio (M*/L) by the five independent CMLRs have been greatly reduced after re-calibration, especially in near-infrared bands, implying that the near-infrared luminosities are more robust to predict M*/L. For each CMLR, the re-calibrated relations provided in this work could produce internally self-consistent M* from divergent photometric bands, and are extensions of the re-calibrations from Johnson-Cousin filter system by the pioneering work of McGaugh & Schombert (2014) to SDSS filter system.
19 pages,11 figures, 7 tables, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
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