Thursday

Exploiting the wealth of data available from high-fidelity integral-field observations is an on-going challenge. Present analysis techniques often suffer from compression of the data into a small number of parameters, and most often consider just a single dimension in this wealth of data; for instance, just the chemical abundances. I will present a highly-general, robust, and self-consistent method for the modelling of the complete stellar information content available from integral-field data of unresolved external galaxies, including kinematics, ages, metallicities, and new spatially-resolved measurements of the stellar Initial Mass Function. I will show how this analysis enables the investigation of 3D (intrinsic) chemo-dynamic properties from 2D observations, and present their assembly histories derived from this combination of kinematic and chemical properties. I will show how advanced techniques applied to integral-field data are closing the existing divide between extragalactic and Galactic observations.