J/AJ/169/186ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/169/186doi:10.26093/cds/vizier/be-59-5tCDSDuey F.Schombert J.McGaugh S.Lelli F.2026-07-02T11:45:31Z2026-01-09T16:24:32ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frgalaxiesinfrared-photometryvisible-astronomyWe present new color-U* (mass-to-light ratio) models to convert Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer W1 fluxes into stellar masses. We outline a range of possible star formation histories and chemical evolution scenarios to explore the confidence limits of stellar population models on the value of U*. We conclude that the greatest uncertainties (around 0.1dex in U*) occur for the bluest galaxies with the strongest variation in recent star formation. For high-mass galaxies, the greatest uncertainty arises from the proper treatment of bulge-disk separation in which to apply different U* relations appropriate for those differing underlying stellar populations. We compare our deduced stellar masses with those deduced from Spitzer Space Telescope 3.6{mu}m fluxes and stellar mass estimates in the literature using optical photometry and different U* modeling. We find the correspondence to be excellent, arguing that rest-frame near-IR photometry is still more advantageous than other wavelengths.2025AJ....169..186Dhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/169/186CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toII/311 : WISE All-Sky Data Release (Cutri+ 2012)II/328 : AllWISE Data Release (Cutri+ 2013)V/139 : The SDSS Photometric Cat., Release 9 (Adelman-McCarthy+, 2012)V/147 : The SDSS Photometric Catalogue, Release 12 (Alam+, 2015)J/ApJS/116/1 : Old Stellar Populations. VI. Absorption-Line (Trager+ 1998)J/ApJ/633/174 : Spheroidals and bulge dominated galaxies (Treu+, 2005)J/PASP/122/1397 : Spitzer Surv. of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (Sheth+, 2010)J/ApJS/212/18 : An atlas of UV-to-MIR galaxy SEDs (Brown+, 2014)J/A+A/591/A38 : Robust automatic photometry for SDSS gal. (Consolandi+, 2016)J/AJ/152/157 : Mass models for 175 disk galaxies with SPARC (Lelli+, 2016)J/A+A/609/A37 : 875 nearby galaxies multiwavelength photometry (Clark+, 2018)J/ApJS/245/25 : WISE Extended Source Catalog (WXSC). I. (Jarrett+, 2019)J/MNRAS/527/7438 : MaNGA kinematic catalogue (Ristea+, 2024)http://astroweb.cwru.edu/SPARC : Spitzer Photometry & Accurate Rotation Curveshttps://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/169/186https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/169/186http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/169/186https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/169/186https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/169/186http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/169/186GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/AJ/169/186/table1 (WISE stellar masses and luminosities)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/169/186/table1?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/169/186/table1?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/169/186/table1?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true156.526522.43360.0055555555555555566/816 955 975 1007 1114 1561 2351 2383 3511 4511 5067 5129 5131 5168 5174 5463 5469 5500 5581 5584 5587 5589 5591 5594 5596 5599 5623 5625 5628-5629 5631 5669 5710 5751 5827 5956 5967 5975 5982 6623 7132 7241 7303 7523 7602 7743 7882 7957 8557 8827 9463 9855 10475 10511 10637 10662 10809 10817 10841 10847 10908 10924-10925 10927 10935 10941 10955 10976 10990-10991 11000 11030 11092 11127 11389 11448 11566 11639 11696 12570 13489 13522 16083 16441 16519 16595 17753 19697 20353 24952 26106 27030 28077 28087 28102 28107 28230 28259 28346 28463 28631 28637-28638 32231 33986 35746 36974 405315.3455714667354156e-20 6.513807192489934e-20https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/AJ/169/186?format=asciiOpticalInfrareddefaultJ/AJ/169/186/table1WISE stellar masses and luminositiesrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintNameGalaxy namemeta.id;meta.maincharlogLW1[7.4/12.2] Luminosity at W1log(solLum)phys.luminosity;em.IRfloatlogMW1[7.1/11.9] Mass at W1log(solMass)stat.error;phys.massfloate_logMW1[2e-3/0.11] Uncertainty in logMW1log(solMass)stat.errorfloatg-W1[0.84/5.1] SDSS g - WISE W1 colormagphot.color;em.opt;em.IRfloatM/L[0.45/1.2] Mean mass-to-light ratio at W1phys.composition.massLightRatiofloatSimbadNameSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.idcharnullable_RAPosition from Simbad (right ascension part)degpos.eq.ra;meta.main_DEPosition from Simbad (declination part)degpos.eq.dec;meta.main