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(Abridged) The observational determination of the behaviour of the star formation rate (SFR) with look-back time or redshift has two main weaknesses: 1- the large uncertainty of the dust/extinction corrections, and 2- that systematic errors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Rosa-Gonzalez , E. Terlevich , R. Terlevich

We study the relationship between stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR),ionization state, and gas-phase metallicity for a sample of 41 normal star-forming galaxies at $3 \lesssim z \lesssim 3.7$. The gas-phase oxygen abundance, ionization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Onodera , C. M. Carollo , S. Lilly , A. Renzini , N. Arimoto , P. Capak , E. Daddi , N. Scoville , S. Tacchella , S. Tatehora , G. Zamorani

We present new accurate measurements of the physical properties of a statistically significant sample of 103 galaxies at z~2 using near-infrared spectroscopy taken as part of the 3D-HST survey. We derive redshifts, metallicities and star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-09 F. Cullen , M. Cirasuolo , R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop

We utilize a large sample of $\sim$113,000 galaxies ($z < 0.3$) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with high-quality data to compare star formation rates (SFRs) across multiple diagnostic methods and examine their connection to Active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 Huynh Anh N. Le , Jong-Hak Woo , Yongquan Xue , Ashraf Ayubinia , Changseok Kim , Xiaozhi Lin

Galaxy emission-line fluxes can be analyzed to determine star formation rates (SFR) and ISM ionization. Here, we investigate rest-frame optical emission lines of 71 star-forming galaxies at redshift 0.7 < z < 7 from the Cosmic Evolution…

We explore the evolution of the Stellar Mass-Star Formation Rate-Metallicity Relation using a set of 256 COSMOS and GOODS galaxies in the redshift range 1.90 < z < 2.35. We present the galaxies' rest-frame optical emission-line fluxes…

There is evidence that the well-established mass-metallicity relation in galaxies is correlated with a third parameter: star formation rate (SFR). The strength of this correlation may be used to disentangle the relative importance of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-01 O. Grace Telford , Julianne J. Dalcanton , Evan D. Skillman , Charlie Conroy

We present a study of the consequences of an initial mass function that is stochastically sampled on the main emission lines used for gas-phase metallicity estimates in extra-galactic sources. We use the stochastic stellar population code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Mieke Paalvast , Jarle Brinchmann

We use direct method oxygen abundances in combination with strong optical emission lines, stellar masses ($M_{\star}$), and star formation rates (SFRs) to recalibrate the N2, O3N2, and N2O2 oxygen abundance diagnostics. We stack spectra of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Jonathan S. Brown , Paul Martini , Brett H. Andrews

We propose a new methodology aimed at finding star-forming galaxies in the phase which immediately follows the star-formation (SF) quenching, based on the use of high- to low-ionization emission line ratios. These ratios rapidly disappear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Annalisa Citro , Lucia Pozzetti , Salvatore Quai , Michele Moresco , Livia Vallini , Andrea Cimatti

We investigate the systematic variation of the [OII]3727/Halpha flux line ratio as a function of various galaxy properties, i.e., luminosity, metallicity, reddening, and excitation state, for a sample of 1124 emission-line galaxies, with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-06 M. Mouhcine , I. Lewis , B. Jones , F. Lamareille , S. J. Maddox , T. Contini

We present measurements of star formation rates (SFRs) for dwarf galaxies (M*~10^8.5 Msun ) at z~1 using near-infrared slitless spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) by targetting and measuring the luminosity of the H{\alpha}…

We use extensive spectroscopy from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey to investigate the relationships between rest-frame optical emission line equivalent widths ($W$) and a number of galaxy and ISM characteristics for a…

Star Formation Rates or SFRs are crucial to constrain theories of galaxy formation and evolution. SFRs are usually estimated via spectroscopic observations requiring large amounts of telescope time. We explore an alternative approach based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 M. Delli Veneri , S. Cavuoti , M. Brescia , G. Longo , G. Riccio

We select 947 star-forming galaxies from SDSS-DR7 with [O~{\sc iii}]$\lambda$4363 emission lines detected at a signal-to-noise {ratio }larger than 5$\sigma$. Their electron temperatures and direct oxygen abundances are {then }determined.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 WeiBin Shi , YanChun Liang , Xu Shao , XiaoWei Liu , Gang Zhao , Francois Hammer , Yong Zhang , Hector Flores , GuiPing Ruan , Li Zhou

We present radial profiles of surface brightness in UV and IR bands, estimate stellar mass surface density ($\Sigma_\star$) and star formation rate surface density ($\Sigma_\mathrm{SFR}$), and predict the CO-to-H$_2$ conversion factor…

We measure the evolution of the [OII]lambda 3727 luminosity function at 0.75<z<1.45 using high-resolution spectroscopy of ~14,000 galaxies observed by the DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey. We find that brighter than L_{OII}=10^{42} erg s^(-1)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-19 Guangtun Zhu , John Moustakas , Michael R. Blanton

The star formation rate (SFR) is one of the most fundamental parameters of galaxies, but nearly all of the standard SFR diagnostics are difficult to measure in active galaxies because of contamination from the active galactic nucleus (AGN).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-21 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho , Jinyi Shangguan

We analyze the applicability of far-infrared fine-structure lines [CII] 158 micron, [OI] 63 micron and [OIII] 88 micron to reliably trace the star formation rate (SFR) in a sample of low-metallicity dwarf galaxies from the Herschel Dwarf…

Current observational evidence suggests that the star formation rate (SFR) efficiency of neutral atomic hydrogen gas measured in Damped Ly-alpha Systems (DLAs) at z~3 is more than 10 times lower than predicted by the Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS)…