MCSED: A flexible spectral energy distribution fitting code and its application to $z \sim 2$ emission-line galaxies

We present MCSED, a new spectral energy distribution (SED)-fitting code, which mates flexible stellar evolution calculations with the Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms of the software package emcee. MCSED takes broad, intermediate, and narrow-band photometry, emission-line fluxes, and/or absorption line spectral indices, and returns probability distributions and co-variance plots for all model parameters. MCSED includes a variety of dust attenuation curves with parameters for varying the UV slopes and bump strengths, a prescription for continuum and PAH emission from dust, models for continuum and line emission from ionized gas, options for fixed and variable stellar metallicity, and a selection of star formation rate (SFR) histories. The code is well-suited for exploring parameter inter-dependencies in sets of galaxies with known redshifts, for which there is multi-band photometry and/or spectroscopy. We apply MCSED to a sample of $\sim2000$ $1.90

Keywords:

• Doubly ionized oxygen
• Astrophysics
• Star formation
• Galaxy
• Physics
• Astronomy
• Metallicity
• Emission spectrum
• Spectral energy distribution
• Stellar mass
• Stellar evolution

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