UVCANDELS: Catalogs of Photometric Redshifts and Galaxy Physical Properties
Abstract The UltraViolet imaging of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey Fields (UVCANDELS) program provides deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) F275W and F435W imaging over four CANDELS fields (GOODS-N, GOODS-S, COSMOS, and Extended Groth Strip). We combine this newly acquired UV imaging with existing HST imaging from CANDELS as well as existing ancillary data to obtain robust photometric redshifts and reliable estimates for galaxy physical properties for over 150,000 galaxies in the ∼430 arcmin 2 UVCANDELS area. Here, we leverage the power of the new UV photometry to not only improve the photometric redshift measurements in these fields, but also constrain the full redshift probability distribution combining multiple redshift-fitting tools. Furthermore, using the full UV-to-IR photometric data set, we measure the galaxy physical properties by fitting templates from population synthesis models with two different parameterizations (flexible and fixed form) of the star formation histories (SFHs). Compared to the flexible SFH parameterization, we find that the fixed-form SFHs systematically underestimate the galaxy stellar masses, both at the low-mass (≲10 9 M ⊙ ) and high-mass (≳10 10 M ⊙ ) end, by as much as ∼0.5 dex. This underestimation is primarily due the limited ability of fixed-form SFH parameterization to simultaneously capture the chaotic nature of star formation in these galaxies.
Authors
- Matthew Hayes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8587-218X)
- Ray A. Lucas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1581-7825)
- Swara Ravindranath (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5269-6527)
- Peter Kurczynski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8816-5146)
- Mauro Giavalisco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-8751)
- Alexa M. Morales (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4965-0402)
- Zhiyuan Ji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7673-2257)
- Ben Sunnquist (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3759-8707)
- Romeel Davé (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2842-9434)
- Tyler McCabe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5506-3880)
- Y. Sophia Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7928-416X)
- A. Grazian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5688-0663)
- Rogier A. Windhorst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8156-6281)
- Marc Rafelski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9946-4731)
- R. W. O’Connell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8190-7573)
- Sina Taamoli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0749-4667)
- Sugata Kaviraj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5601-575X)
- Harry I. Teplitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7064-5424)
- Laura Prichard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0604-654X)
- Rolf A. Jansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1268-5230)
- Justin Howell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6028-8059)
- Norman A. Grogin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9440-8872)
- Keunho Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6505-0293)
- Laura DeGroot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9022-665X)
- Nimish P. Hathi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6145-5090)
- Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6016-300X)
- Jonathan P. Gardner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2098-9568)
- Timothy Carleton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6650-2853)
- Anahita Alavi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8630-6435)
- Teresa Ashcraft (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4439-6003)
- Adam Broussard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-5044)
- Alec Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6632-4046)
- Charlotte Olsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8085-7578)
- Christopher J. Conselice (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1949-7638)
- John MacKenty (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-8416)
- Pablo Arrabal Haro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7959-8783)
- Seth H. Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3329-1337)
- Henry C. Ferguson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7113-2738)
- Anton M. Koekemoer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6610-2048)
- Bahram Mobasher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5846-4404)
- D. F. de Mello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1624-8425)
- Zahra Sattari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-1159)
- Ivano Baronchelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0556-2929)
- Michael J. Rutkowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7016-5220)
- Alex Codoreanu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9560-9174)
- Vihang Mehta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7166-6035)
- Ilin Lazar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1797-0300)
- Brent M. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0648-1699)
- L. Y. Aaron Yung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3466-035X)
- Kartheik G. Iyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9298-3523)
- Guillermo Barro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6813-875X)
- Xin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9373-3865)
- James Colbert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6482-3020)
- Steven L. Finkelstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8519-1130)
- Yicheng Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2775-2002)
- E. Vanzella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5057-135X)
- Emmaris Soto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-0584)
- Mark Dickinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5414-5131)
- Lillian Otteson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9665-3003)
- Behnam Darvish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-9017)
- Najmeh Emami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2047-1689)
- Micaela B. Bagley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9921-9218)
- Eric Gawiser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1530-8713)
- Caleb Redshaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9961-2984)
- Brant E. Robertson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4271-0364)
- Brian Siana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4935-9511)
- Shoubaneh Hemmati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2226-5395)
- Nima Chartab (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3691-937X)
- Timothy Gburek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7732-9205)
- Garreth Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2939-8668)
- Claudia Scarlata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9136-8876)
- K. Nedkova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5294-8002)
- Keely Finkelstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0792-5877)
- A. Fontana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3820-2823)
- Bonnabelle Zabelle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7830-363X)
- C. Gronwall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6842-2371)
- Alex Blanche (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2102-3933)
- Leonardo Ferreira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8919-079X)
- Lei Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6325-7839)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Published
- 2024-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ad7d8f
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.66
Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- California Institute of Technology
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Science and Technology Facilities Council