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This PR updates the model parameters used to decompose the SFH of a galaxy into disk/bulge/knot components. The upshot is that there is now a much greater diversity in B/T, and the model retains its predictions for a galaxy's disk SED to generally be redder than its knot SED, and for its bulge SED to be redder than its disk.
In this first figure, B/T is the ratio of the stellar mass of the bulge to the total stellar mass. In the old model there was not much diversity in morphology: nearly all z<1 galaxies were bulge-dominated with a bit of scatter about B/T=0.85. In the new model, there is a much larger range of B/T: for example, ~30% of galaxies are disk-dominated with B/T<0.5 (whereas previously this was ~0%).
The next few figures plot
δ_color
on the y-axis, computed as the difference in broadband color between one galaxy component and another. So when the y-axis is positive, the first component is redder than the second. The combination of the figures below gives assurance that the new model retains the same feature as the old: bulges are redder than disks are redder than knots, which is visible across a wide range in wavelength spanning at least u-y.