Simona Bovinelli

My main field of interest is modelling the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies with DUSTY, a code written by Moshe Elitzur and his research group at the University of Kentucky. I have created a library of almost 1,000,000 SEDs which span a wide range of stellar metallicities and ages, as well as dust properties and geometries. I am using this library to derive dust temperatures, opacities, and masses of local and distant galaxy populations in order to investigate trends with stellar metallicity and mass and other galaxy properties.