Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Spiral Galaxies. I. MBH–M*, sph

BL Davis, AW Graham, E Cameron - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The (supermassive black hole mass, MBH)–(bulge stellar mass, M, sph*) relation is,
obviously, derived using two quantities. We endeavor to provide accurate values for the …

Twenty-first-century statistical and computational challenges in astrophysics

ED Feigelson, RS De Souza… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Modern astronomy has been rapidly increasing our ability to see deeper into the Universe,
acquiring enormous samples of cosmic populations. Gaining astrophysical insights from …

Clearing the hurdle: The mass of globular cluster systems as a function of host galaxy mass

GM Eadie, WE Harris, A Springford - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Current observational evidence suggests that all large galaxies contain globular clusters
(GCs), while the smallest galaxies do not. Over what galaxy mass range does the transition …

Finding high-redshift galaxies with JWST

CL Steinhardt, CK Jespersen… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the primary goals for the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope is to observe the
first galaxies. Predictions for planned and proposed surveys have typically focused on …

On the realistic validation of photometric redshifts

R Beck, CA Lin, EEO Ishida, F Gieseke… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Two of the main problems encountered in the development and accurate validation of
photometric redshift (photo-z) techniques are the lack of spectroscopic coverage in the …

The HERBAL model: A hierarchical errors-in-variables Bayesian lognormal hurdle model for galactic globular cluster populations

SC Berek, GM Eadie, JS Speagle… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy stellar mass is known to be monotonically related to the size of the galaxy's globular
cluster (GC) population for Milky Way sized and larger galaxies. However, the relation …

Are star formation rates of galaxies bimodal?

R Feldmann - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Star formation rate (SFR) distributions of galaxies are often assumed to be bimodal with
modes corresponding to star-forming and quiescent galaxies, respectively. Both classes of …

Most frequent value statistics and the hubble constant

J Zhang - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The measurement of Hubble constant (H 0) is clearly a very important task in astrophysics
and cosmology. Based on the principle of minimization of the information loss, we propose a …

Multiplicity of stars with planets in the solar neighbourhood

J González-Payo, JA Caballero, J Gorgas… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Aims. We intended to quantify the impact of stellar multiplicity on the presence and
properties of exoplanets. Methods. We investigated all exoplanet host stars at less than 100 …

Bayesian inference: more than Bayes's theorem

TJ Loredo, RL Wolpert - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Bayesian inference gets its name from Bayes's theorem, expressing posterior probabilities
for hypotheses about a data generating process as the (normalized) product of prior …