Growth from KiDS: Stellar mass assembly of galaxies since z=2 in the light of Kilo-Degree Survey

arXiv:2609.23375 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-20 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-20

Updated: 2026-09-20

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Terminology

• Broken Power Law — 33× in this paper
• Double Schechter — 30× in this paper
• Smoothed Broken Power Law — 20× in this paper
• Calibration — 18× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Aperture — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Galaxy Stellar Mass Function — 6× in this paper
• Population Synthesis — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mean Absolute Difference — 5× in this paper
• Dust Attenuation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Inverse Probability Selection Weighting — 2× in this paper
• M05 Stellar Population Synthesis — 2× in this paper
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Angular Momentum Loss — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• External Validation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gaussian Aperture and PSF — 1× in this paper
• N-body simulations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reheating — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• The Jiutian simulations for the CSST extra-galactic surveys
• Galaxy and black hole coevolution in dark matter haloes not captured by cosmological simulations

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