A Systematic Assessment of Total Stellar Mass Measurements with Spatially Resolved Photometry and Medium Bands at 1 < z < 9: The Impact of Mass-to-Light Variations and Outshining

arXiv:2609.35996 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-10-05

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• Dust Attenuation — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Canadian Space Agency — 2× in this paper
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture Correction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• There Is More to Outshining: 2D Dust Effects on Stellar Mass Estimates at $3 \leq z < 9$ with JWST in the JADES Field
• Evolution and Mass Dependence of UV-to-near-IR Color Gradients up to z=2.5 from HST+JWST
• The Stellar Mass and Age Distributions of Star-Forming Clumps at $0.5 < z < 5$ in JWST CANUCS: Implications for Clump Formation and Destruction

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