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most citedThe Art of Measuring Physical Parameters in Galaxies: A Critical Assessment of Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting Techniques

177 citations · 364 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

TOI-3664 b, TOI-4034 b & TOI-6564 b: Three new hot Jupiters around stars approaching the terminal age main sequence

Matthew P. Battley, Marina Lafarga, Edward Gillen +21

Studying the evolution of hot Jupiters requires a sample of well-characterised systems across all evolutionary states. We present three new gas giant exoplanets around stars approa…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

TOI-4552 b: A new ultra-short period rocky world revealed by NIRPS and TESS

Avidaan Srivastava, René Doyon, François Bouchy +57

A particularly intriguing subclass of rocky exoplanets are the ultra-short period (USP) worlds that orbit their host stars in less than a day. These planets are particularly rare a…

astro-ph.EP2026

NIRPS tightens the mass estimate of GJ 3090 b and detects a planet near the stellar rotation period

Pierrot Lamontagne, Drew Weisserman, Charles Cadieux +148

We present an updated characterization of the planetary system orbiting the nearby M2 dwarf GJ 3090 (TOI-177; pc), based on new high-precision radial velocity (RV) observa…

astro-ph.EP2026

ExoMiner++ 2.0: Vetting TESS Full-Frame Image Transit Signals

Miguel J. S. Martinho, Hamed Valizadegan, Jon M. Jenkins +4

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Full-Frame Images (FFIs) provide photometric time series for millions of stars, enabling transit searches beyond the limited set of…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 5 cited

NIRPS and TESS reveal a peculiar system around the M dwarf TOI-756: A transiting sub-Neptune and a cold eccentric giant

Léna Parc, François Bouchy, Neil J. Cook +148

The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) joined HARPS on the 3.6-m ESO telescope at La Silla Observatory in April 2023, dedicating part of its Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) p…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

Detection and characterisation of a 106-day transiting Jupiter : TOI-2449 b / NGTS-36 b

S. Ulmer-Moll, S. Gill, R. Brahm +64

Only a handful of transiting giant exoplanets with orbital periods longer than 100 days are known. These warm exoplanets are valuable objects as their radius and mass can be measur…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 3 cited

TOI-1743 b, TOI-5799 b, TOI-5799 c and TOI-6223 b: TESS discovery and validation of four super-Earth to Neptune-sized planets around M dwarfs

S. Yalçınkaya, K. Barkaoui, Ö. Baştürk +62

We present the discovery by the TESS mission of one transiting Neptune-sized planet, TOI-6223 b and two transiting super-Earths, TOI-1743 b and TOI-5799 b. We validate these planet…

astro-ph.EP2025

Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912

G. Lacedelli, E. Pallé, R. Luque +47

Sub-Neptunes are absent in the Solar System, yet they are commonly found in our Galaxy. They challenge the internal structure models and prompt investigation on their formation, ev…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Leveraging Machine Learning for Accurate and Fast Stellar Mass Estimation of Galaxies

Vahid Asadi, Akram Hasani Zonoozi, Hosein Haghi +4

Unveiling the evolutionary history of galaxies necessitates a precise understanding of their physical properties. Traditionally, astronomers achieve this through spectral energy di…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

TESS Science Processing Operations Center Photometric Precision Archival Product

Joseph D. Twicken, Jon M. Jenkins, Douglas A. Caldwell +11

We report the delivery to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) of tables containing Root Mean Square (RMS) Combined Differential Photometric Precision (CDPP) values for…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

A stellar dynamical mass measurement of an inactive black hole at redshift 2

Andrew B. Newman, Meng Gu, Sirio Belli +34

Supermassive black holes and their host galaxies grow together over time, producing correlations between the black hole mass and various galaxy properties. Determining the evolutio…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Application of Manifold Learning to Selection of Different Galaxy Populations and Scaling Relation Analysis

Sogol Sanjaripour, Shoubaneh Hemmati, Bahram Mobasher +8

The growing volume of data produced by large astronomical surveys necessitates the development of efficient analysis techniques capable of effectively managing high-dimensional dat…

astro-ph.GA2024

Chemical Abundances of Early Quiescent Galaxies: New Observations and Modelling Impacts

Marziye Jafariyazani, Andrew B. Newman, Bahram Mobasher +3

Recent stellar chemical abundance measurements of a handful of quiescent galaxies have suggested these galaxies exhibit a remarkably strong -enhancement compared to the…

astro-ph.GA2023

Predicting the Spectroscopic Features of Galaxies by Applying Manifold Learning on Their Broad-Band Colors: Proof of Concept and Potential Applications for Euclid, Roman, and Rubin LSST

Marziye Jafariyazani, Daniel Masters, Andreas Faisst +2

Entering the era of large-scale galaxy surveys which will deliver unprecedented amounts of photometric and spectroscopic data, there is a growing need for more efficient, data driv…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 177 cited

The Art of Measuring Physical Parameters in Galaxies: A Critical Assessment of Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting Techniques

Camilla Pacifici, Kartheik G. Iyer, Bahram Mobasher +52

The study of galaxy evolution hinges on our ability to interpret multi-wavelength galaxy observations in terms of their physical properties. To do this, we rely on spectral energy…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 41 cited

Resolved Multi-element Stellar Chemical Abundances in the Brightest Quiescent Galaxy at z 2

Marziye Jafariyazani, Andrew B. Newman, Bahram Mobasher +3

Measuring the chemical composition of galaxies is crucial to our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution models. However, such measurements are extremely challenging for qu…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 2 cited

Bridging between the integrated and resolved main sequence of star formation

Shoubaneh Hemmati, Bahram Mobasher, Hooshang Nayyeri +6

The position of galaxies on the stellar mass, star formation rate plane with respect to the star-forming main sequence at each redshift is a convenient way to infer where the galax…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 64 cited

Large Scale Structures in the CANDELS Fields: The Role of the Environment in Star Formation Activity

Nima Chartab, Bahram Mobasher, Behnam Darvish +14

We present a robust method, weighted von Mises kernel density estimation, along with boundary correction to reconstruct the underlying number density field of galaxies. We apply th…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

Spatially resolved properties of galaxies from CANDELS+MUSE: Radial extinction profile and insights on quenching

Marziye Jafariyazani, Bahram Mobasher, Shoubaneh Hemmati +3

Studying the internal processes of individual galaxies at kilo-parsec scales is crucial in enhancing our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution processes. In this work, we…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 39 cited

The clustering of typical Ly emitters from : host halo masses depend on Ly and UV luminosities

Ali Ahmad Khostovan, David Sobral, Bahram Mobasher +7

We investigate the clustering and halo properties of Ly-selected emission line galaxies (LAEs) from the Slicing COSMOS 4K (SC4K) and from archival NB497 imaging of S…