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THESPITZERSURVEY OF STELLAR STRUCTURE IN GALAXIES (S4G): PRECISE STELLAR MASS DISTRIBUTIONS FROM AUTOMATED DUST CORRECTION AT 3.6μm

Miguel Querejeta, Sharon E. Meidt, Eva Schinnerer, Mauricio Cisternas, Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos, Kartik Sheth, Johan Knapen, Glenn van de Ven, Mark A. Norris, Reynier Peletier, Eija Laurikainen, Heikki Salo (+17 others)
2015 Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series  

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2014 pre-print
arXiv:1410.0009v1 fatcat:pzj4vy5mnjdsdhxrwx3n62c5c4
2015 accepted
arXiv:1410.0009v2 fatcat:gb6nrkm5brfr5bgeneywaxnsma
The mid-infrared is an optimal window to trace stellar mass in nearby galaxies and the 3.6μ m IRAC band has been exploited to this effect, but such mass estimates can be biased by dust emission. We present our pipeline to reveal the old stellar flux at 3.6μ m and obtain stellar mass maps for more than 1600 galaxies available from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S^4G). This survey consists of images in two infrared bands (3.6 and 4.5μ m), and we use the Independent Component
more » ... Analysis (ICA) method presented in Meidt et al. (2012) to separate the dominant light from old stars and the dust emission that can significantly contribute to the observed 3.6μ m flux. We exclude from our ICA analysis galaxies with low signal-to-noise ratio (S/N < 10) and those with original [3.6]-[4.5] colors compatible with an old stellar population, indicative of little dust emission (mostly early Hubble types, which can directly provide good mass maps). For the remaining 1251 galaxies to which ICA was successfully applied, we find that as much as 10-30 of the total light at 3.6μ m typically originates from dust, and locally it can reach even higher values. This contamination fraction shows a correlation with specific star formation rates, confirming that the dust emission that we detect is related to star formation. Additionally, we have used our large sample of mass estimates to calibrate a relationship of effective mass-to-light ratio (M/L) as a function of observed [3.6]-[4.5] color: (M/L)=-0.339 (± 0.057) × ([3.6]-[4.5]) -0.336 (± 0.002). Our final pipeline products have been made public through IRSA, providing the astronomical community with an unprecedentedly large set of stellar mass maps ready to use for scientific applications.
doi:10.1088/0067-0049/219/1/5 fatcat:eiwzpedadvbondlrwej5yrbv7q
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Miguel Querejeta, Sharon E. Meidt, Eva Schinnerer, Mauricio Cisternas, Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mateos, Kartik Sheth, Johan Knapen, Glenn van de Ven, Mark A. Norris, Reynier Peletier, Eija Laurikainen, Heikki Salo, Benne W. Holwerda, E. Athanassoula, Albert Bosma, Brent Groves, Luis C. Ho, Dimitri A. Gadotti, Dennis Zaritsky, Michael Regan, Joannah Hinz, Armando Gil de Paz, Karin Menendez-Delmestre, Mark Seibert, Trisha Mizusawa, Taehyun Kim, Santiago Erroz-Ferrer, Jarkko Laine, Sébastien Comerón. "THESPITZERSURVEY OF STELLAR STRUCTURE IN GALAXIES (S4G): PRECISE STELLAR MASS DISTRIBUTIONS FROM AUTOMATED DUST CORRECTION AT 3.6μm." Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 219.1 (2015)