Doore, KeithEufrasio, Rafael T.Lehmer, Bret D.Monson, Erik B.Basu-Zych, AntaraGarofali, KristenPtak, Andrew2022-01-202022-01-202021-12-08Doore, Keith, et al. On the Impact of Inclination-dependent Attenuation on Derived Star Formation Histories: Results from Disk Galaxies in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey Fields. The Astrophysical Journal 923 (Dec. 8, 2021), no. 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac25f3.http://hdl.handle.net/11603/24024energy distribution (SED) fitting and study its impact on derived star formation histories. We apply our prescription within the SED fitting code Lightning to a clean sample of 82, z = 0.21–1.35 disk-dominated galaxies in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North and South fields. To compare our inclination-dependent attenuation prescription with more traditional fitting prescriptions, we also fit the SEDs with the inclination-independent Calzetti et al. (2000) attenuation curve. From this comparison, we find that fits to a subset of 58, z < 0.7 galaxies in our sample, utilizing the Calzetti et al. (2000) prescription, recover similar trends with inclination as the inclination-dependent fits for the far-UV-band attenuation and recent star formation rates. However, we find a difference between prescriptions in the optical attenuation (AV) that is strongly correlated with inclination (p‐value < 10−11). For more face-on galaxies, with i ≲ 50°, (edge-on, i ≈ 90°), the average derived AV is 0.31 ± 0.11 magnitudes lower (0.56 ± 0.16 magnitudes higher) for the inclination-dependent model compared to traditional methods. Further, the ratio of stellar masses between prescriptions also has a significant (p‐value < 10−2) trend with inclination. For i = 0°–65°, stellar masses are systematically consistent between fits, with ${\mathrm{log}}_{10}({M}_{\star }^{\mathrm{inc}}/{M}_{\star }^{\mathrm{Calzetti}})=-0.05\pm 0.03$ dex and scatter of 0.11 dex. However, for i ≈ 80°–90°, the derived stellar masses are lower for the Calzetti et al. (2000) fits by an average factor of 0.17 ± 0.03 dex and scatter of 0.13 dex. Therefore, these results suggest that SED fitting assuming the Calzetti et al. (2000) attenuation law potentially underestimates stellar masses in highly inclined disk-dominated galaxies.29 pagesen-USThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.Public Domain Mark 1.0Text