Article Contents

ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.MODELLING GALAXY SEDs

2.1.Stars

2.2.The ISM around the stars

2.3.Evolution of Galaxies

3.CONSTRUCTING OBSERVED GALAXY SEDs

3.1.Spectral response curve and resolution

3.2.Spatial resolution, aperture bias and matching

3.3.Examples of multi-wavelength datasets

4.METHODS AND VALIDATION OF SED FITTING

4.1.Parametrizing SED models

4.2.Spectral indices

4.3.Principal Component Analysis

4.4.Spectral fitting by inversion

4.5.Bayesian inference

4.6.Method-independent caveats

5.RESULTS OF SED FITTING: PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS

5.1.Methods

5.2.Calibration and error budgets

5.3.A unified framework

5.4.The State of Photometric Redshifts

6.RESULTS OF SED FITTING: PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

6.1.Stars

6.2.Dust

6.3.Fitting the full UV to FIR SED

7.CONCLUSIONS

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