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Stellar Masses From The Candels Survey: The Goods-South And Uds Field, P. Satini, H.C. Ferguson, A Fontana, B. Mobasher, G. Barro, M. Castellano, S.L. Finkelstein, A. Grazian, L.T. Hsu, B. Lee, S.K. Lee, J. Pforr, M. Salvato, T. Wiklind, S. Wuyts, O. Almaini, M.C. Cooper, A. Galametz, B. Weiner, R. Amorin, K. Boutsia, C.J. Conselice, T. Dahlen, M.C. Cooper, Mauro Giavalisco, N.A. Grogin, Y. Guo, N.P. Hathi, D. Kocevski, A.M. Koekemoer, P. Kurczynski, E. Merlin, A. Mortlock, J.A. Newman, D. Paris, L. Pentericci, R. Simons, S.P. Willner

Mauro Giavalisco

We present the public release of the stellar mass catalogs for the GOODS-S and UDS fields obtained using some of the deepest near-IR images available, achieved as part of the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) project. We combine the effort from ten different teams, who computed the stellar masses using the same photometry and the same redshifts. Each team adopted their preferred fitting code, assumptions, priors, and parameter grid. The com- bination of results using the same underlying stellar isochrones reduces the systematics associated with the fitting code and other choices. Thanks to the availability of different …