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Stellar masses in nearby disc galaxies

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The study of scaling relations of disc galaxies and their evolution across cosmic time requires accurate estimates of galaxy stellar masses Mstar over broad redshift ranges.

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While photometric Mstar estimates (Mphot) based on spectral energy distribution (SED) modelling methods are employed routinely at high-z, it is unclear to what extent these are compatible with dynamical Mstar estimates (Mdyn), available for nearby galaxies.

Here we compare newly determined, SED-model based Mphot with previously obtained Mdyn inferred via rotation curve decomposition techniques in a sample of ~100 nearby galaxies from the SPARC database. We find that the two mass estimates show a systematic agreement at the 12% (0.05dex) level and a ~55% (0.22dex) scatter across almost 5dex in Mstar. Our Mphot estimates correspond to mass-to-light ratios in the 3.6um band that increase gradually with 3.6um luminosity, as a consequence of the earlier (later) assembly history of high-mass (low-mass) disc galaxies.

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The choice of using either Mdyn or Mphot has only a marginal impact on the slope and zero-point of the Tully-Fisher and Fall relations: the observed orthogonal scatter in both relations is virtually the same for the two methods, and indistinguishable from that derived using a constant mass-to-light ratio in the 3.6um band. Mstar estimates based on the assumption that discs are marginally stable lead to the largest scatter in the scaling relations.

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