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The apparent correlation between the specific star formation rate (sSFR) and total stellar mass (M_star) of galaxies is a fundamental relationship indicating how they formed their stellar populations. To attempt to understand this relation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 M. D. Lehnert , W. van Driel , L. Le Tiran , P. Di Matteo , M. Haywood

The slope of the star formation rate/stellar mass relation (the SFR "Main Sequence"; ${\rm SFR}-M_*$) is not quite unity: specific star formation rates $({\rm SFR}/M_*)$ are weakly-but-significantly anti-correlated with $M_*$. Here we…

We study the star formation rates (SFRs) of galaxies as a function of local galaxy density at 0.6<z<0.9. We used a low-dispersion prism in IMACS on the 6.5-m Baade (Magellan I) telescope to obtain spectra and measured redshifts to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Shannon G. Patel , Daniel D. Kelson , Bradford P. Holden , Marijn Franx , Garth D. Illingworth

We aim to measure the evolution of individual galaxies around the Star Formation Main Sequence (SFMS) during the last Gyr as a function of their stellar mass to quantify how much of its scatter is due to short-term variability.We derived…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 A. Camps-Fariña , M. Chamorro-Cazorla , S. F. Sánchez

A sample of 12614 star-forming galaxies (SFGs) with stellar mass >10^9.5 M_sun between 0.6<z<0.8 from COSMOS is selected to study the intrinsic scatter of the correlation between star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass. We derive SFR…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kexin Guo , Xian Zhong Zheng , Hai Fu

We study the evolution of the star formation rate (SFR) - stellar mass (M_star) relation and specific star formation rate (sSFR) of star forming galaxies (SFGs) since a redshift z~5.5 using 2435 (4531) galaxies with highly reliable…

Recent zoom-in cosmological simulations have shown that stellar feedback can flatten the inner density profile of the dark matter halo in low-mass galaxies. A correlation between the stellar/gas velocity dispersion ($\sigma_{star}$,…

The Star-Forming Main Sequence (SFMS) serves as a critical framework for understanding galaxy evolution, highlighting the relationship between star formation rates (SFR) and stellar masses M_* across cosmic time. Despite its significance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Zhicheng He , Enci Wang , Luis C. Ho , Huiyuan Wang , Yong Shi , Xu Kong , Tinggui Wang

We provide a coherent, uniform measurement of the evolution of the logarithmic star formation rate (SFR) - stellar mass ($M_*$) relation, called the main sequence of star-forming galaxies (MS), for galaxies out to $z\sim5$. We measure the…

Star-formation rates (SFR) of disk galaxies strongly correlate with stellar mass, with a small dispersion in SSFR at fixed mass, sigma~0.3 dex. With such small scatter this star-formation main sequence (SFMS) has been interpreted as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-23 Daniel D. Kelson

We investigate the relation between the star formation rate (SFR) and the stellar mass (M), i.e. the Main Sequence (MS) relation of star-forming galaxies, at 1.3<=z<6 in the first four HST Frontier Fields, based on rest-frame UV…

The consequences are explored of an observationally established relation of the star formation rate (SFR) of star-forming galaxies with their stellar mass (M) and cosmic time (t), such that SFR is proportional to M x t^{-2.5}. It is shown,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alvio Renzini

Extragalactic studies have demonstrated there is a moderately tight ($\approx$0.3 dex) relationship between galaxy stellar mass ($M_{\star}$) and star formation rate (SFR) that holds for star-forming galaxies at $M_{\star} \sim 3 \times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-18 Kaitlyn Shin , Chun Ly , Matthew A. Malkan , Sangeeta Malhotra , Mithi de los Reyes , James E. Rhoads

The galaxy integrated star-formation rate (SFR) surface density ($\Sigma_{\rm SFR}$) has been proposed as a valuable diagnostic of the mass accumulation in galaxies as being more tightly related to the physics of star-formation (SF) and…

We present a comprehensive study of the relationship between star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass (M_*) from z = 0.1 to z = 4 using a mass-complete sample of approximately 290,000 galaxies from the COSMOS2020 catalog. We find that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 Kaimin He , Ke Shi , Jun Toshikawa , Xianzhong Zheng , Xiaopeng You

We present results from SPH-cosmological simulations, including self-consistent modelling of SN feedback and chemical evolution, of galaxies belonging to two clusters and twelve groups. We reproduce the mass-metallicity (ZM) relation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-08 A. D. Romeo Velonà , J. Sommer-Larsen , N. R. Napolitano , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , S. Cielo , I. Gavignaud

We present new measurements of the clustering of stellar mass-complete samples of $\sim40,000$ SDSS galaxies at $z\sim0.03$ as a joint function of stellar mass and specific star formation rate (sSFR). Our results confirm what Coil et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-14 Angela M. Berti , Alison L. Coil , Andrew P. Hearin , Peter S. Behroozi

The scatter of the star-forming main sequence (SFMS) holds a wealth of information about how galaxies evolve. The timescales encoded in this scatter can provide valuable insight into the relative importance of the physical processes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-08 Jenny T. Wan , Sandro Tacchella , Francesco D'Eugenio , Benjamin D. Johnson , Arjen van der Wel

Analyzing 24 mu m MIPS/Spitzer data and the [O II]3727 line of a sample of galaxies at 0.4 < z < 0.8 from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS), we investigate the ongoing star formation rate (SFR) and the specific star formation rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Benedetta Vulcani , Bianca M. Poggianti , Rose A. Finn , Gregory Rudnick , Vandana Desai , Steven Bamford

The specific star formation rate (sSFR) is commonly used to describe the level of galaxy star formation (SF) and to select quenched galaxies. However, being a relative measure of the young-to-old population, an ambiguity in its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Samir Salim , Sandro Tacchella , Chandler Osborne , S. M. Faber , Janice C. Lee , Sara L. Ellison