Original Title:

Near Infrared Observations with Skinakas Telescope and NIR Camera

Keywords:

stellar mass of distant galaxies infrared NIR NIR observations NIR camera Skinakas NIR camera infrared wavelength Herschel

Description:

Among the most important physical properties we often need to measure in extragalactic astrophysics is the stellar mass of distant galaxies. In principle this is not a trivial question as due to the distance of these objects we can not resolve, let along count, the billions and billions of individual stars they contain. As a result we have to rely on the integrated light emitted by the galaxies and find a way to estimate from this the mass and type of stars they contain