RemoveYoung: A tool for the removal of the young stellar component in galaxies within an adjustable age cutoff
Jean Michel Gomes, Polychronis Papaderos

TL;DR
RemoveYoung is a tool that isolates older stellar populations in galaxy images by removing emission from stars younger than a user-defined age cutoff, aiding the study of galaxy formation history.
Contribution
It introduces a novel method combining integral field spectroscopy and spectral population synthesis to selectively remove young stellar emission from galaxy data.
Findings
Enables analysis of faint structural features in galaxies.
Facilitates study of galaxy assembly history.
Applicable to various galaxy types like mergers and starbursts.
Abstract
The optical morphology of galaxies holds the cumulative record of their assembly history, and techniques for its quantitative characterization offer a promising avenue toward understanding galaxy formation and evolution. However, the morphology of star-forming galaxies is generally dictated by the youngest stellar component, which can readily overshine faint structural/morphological features in the older underlying stellar background (e.g., relics from recent minor mergers) that could hold important insights into the galaxy build-up process. Stripping off galaxy images from the emission from stellar populations younger than an adjustable age cutoff tcut can, therefore, provide a valuable tool in extragalactic research. RemoveYoung (RY), a publicly available tool that is presented here, exploits the combined power of integral field spectroscopy (IFS) and spectral population synthesis…
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