Stellar Mass‐to‐Light Ratios and the Tully‐Fisher Relation
Stellar Mass‐to‐Light Ratios and the Tully‐Fisher Relation
We have used a suite of simplified spectrophotometric spiral galaxy evolution models to argue that there are substantial variations in stellar mass-to-light (M/L) ratios within and among galaxies, amounting to factors of between 3 and 7 in the optical and factors of 2 in the near-infrared. Our models show a …