the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Guinevere Kauffmann, Timothy M. Heckman, Simon D.M. White, Stephane Charlot, Christy Tremonti, Jarle Brinchmann, Gustavo Bruzual, Eric W. Peng, Mark Seibert, Mariangela Bernardi, Michael Blanton, Jon Brinkmann, Francisco Castander, Istvan Csabai, Masataka Fukugita, Zeljko Ivezic, Jeffrey Munn, Robert Nichol, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Anniruddha Thakar, David Weinberg, Don York Kolby Weisenburger 12 March 2015
of stellar populations, ages, and mass to light ratios of galaxies in the Local Universe. How many?! What can we learn about stellar populations in different types of galaxies? Dn(4000) Hδ
2: Strong Balmer absorption? star formation in past Gyr Takeaway 3: Galaxies are distributed along a sequence with two distinct populations of mean stellar age
to light ratios: Ellipticals have larger M/L than spirals Dust attenuation: Galaxies with younger populations are most attenuated by dust Star formation histories: Majority of stellar mass is in galaxies without recent star bursts