UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University, University of New South Wales

“ZFOURGE & MOSEL : Emergent Galaxies at z~3.5”

ZFOURGE and MOSEL are deep observational surveys that track how galaxies assemble over cosmic time. ZFOURGE identifies approximately 70,000 objects up to redshifts of z~7 using a custom set of near-infrared imaging filters that provide high precision photometric redshifts. MOSEL targets emergent galaxies from ZFOURGE for spectroscopic follow-up to track this rapidly evolving population. Here I highlight results that include building a library of composite Spectral Energy Distributions (SED), using the SED fitting code Prospector to determine star formation histories for a range of galaxy populations, and comparing galaxy kinematics at z~3 to cosmological simulations.