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We have derived star formation rates (SFRs), gas-phase oxygen abundances and effective dust absorption optical depths for a sample of galaxies drawn from the Stromlo-APM redshift survey using the new Charlot and Longhetti (2001; CL01)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Charlot , G. Kauffmann , M. Longhetti , L. Tresse , S. D. M. White , S. J. Maddox , S. M. Fall

The hydrogen recombination lines H30$\alpha$, H40$\alpha$, H42$\alpha$, H50$\beta$ and H57$\gamma$ and the underlying bremsstrahlung continuum emission were detected with ALMA in the bipolar nebula Mz3. The source was not spatially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-17 Z. Abraham , P. P. B. Beaklini , I. Aleman , R. Sahai , A. Zijlstra , S. Akras , D. R. Gonçalves , T. Ueta

We present optical integral field spectroscopy of the H-alpha-luminous (>1E42 erg/s) central cluster galaxies in the cores of the cooling flows A1664, A1835, A2204 and Zw8193. From the [NII]+H-alpha complex we derive 2-D views of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Wilman , A. C. Edge , A. M. Swinbank

Infrared and nebular lines provide some of our best probes of the physics regulating the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) at high-redshift. However, interpreting the physical conditions of high-redshift galaxies directly from…

In order to interpret H2 (molecular hydrogen) quasar absorption line observations of damped Ly-alpha systems (DLAs) and sub-DLAs, we model their H2 abundance as a function of dust-to-gas ratio, including H2 self-shielding and dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Hirashita , A. Ferrara

We present self-consistent star formation rates derived through pan-spectral analysis of galaxies drawn from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. We determine the most appropriate form of dust obscuration correction via application…

(Abridged) We investigate the evolution of the opacity of galaxies as a function of redshift, using simple assumptions about the metal and dust enrichment of the gas and the distribution of dust in galaxies. We use an iterative procedure to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Calzetti , T. M. Heckman

Star formation feedback can drive large-scale, multi-phase galactic outflows. The dynamical and thermodynamical interaction between the hot and cooler phases is a prime focus of both observational and theoretical work. Here, we analyze…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-11 Sebastian Lopez , Laura A. Lopez , Todd A. Thompson , Adam K. Leroy , Alberto D. Bolatto

Large and less-biased samples of star-forming galaxies are essential to investigate galaxy evolution. H$\rm\alpha$ emission line is one of the most reliable tracers of star-forming galaxies because its strength is directly related to recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Yasunori Terao , Lee R. Spitler , Kentaro Motohara , Nuo Chen

We construct a new algorithm for estimating the star formation rate (SFR) of galaxies from their infrared (IR) luminosity by developing the theory of the IR emission from a dusty H II region. The derived formula is ${\rm SFR}/(\MO {\rm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. K. Inoue , H. Hirashita , H. Kamaya

We compare the diffuse H$\alpha$ map of our Galaxy with the FUV (1370-1710\AA) continuum map. The H$\alpha$ intensity correlates well with the FUV intensity. The H$\alpha$/FUV intensity ratio increases in general with the H$\alpha$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Kwang-Il Seon , Adolf Witt , Il-Joong Kim , Jong-Ho Shinn , Jerry Edelstein , Kyoung-Wook Min , Wonyong Han

The dust attenuation for a sample of $\sim$10000 local ($z\lesssim0.1$) star forming galaxies is constrained as a function of their physical properties. We utilize aperture-matched multi-wavelength data available from the Galaxy Evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 A. J. Battisti , D. Calzetti , R. -R. Chary

The internal dust attenuation of the Hii region reduces the observed emission-line fluxes. Turbulent density fields within each Hii region change the degree of the line-of-the-sight obscuration of the emission-line fluxes. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Yifei Jin , Yong Shi , Ralph Sutherland , Ziyu Huang , Chuanfei Dong

Star formation is one of the most important processes in galaxy formation. The luminosity of Halpha recombination and [OII] forbidden emissions remain to be most used in measuring formation rate of massive stars in galaxies. Here we report…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 Ching-Wa Yip , Alex S. Szalay

Various types of galaxies observed in the cosmological scales show P-Cygni type profiles in the Lyman alpha emission lines. A Monte Carlo code is developed to investigate the Lyman alpha line transfer in an optically thick and moving medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee

We investigate the relation between the star formation rate surface density (Sigma_SFR) and the mass surface density of gas (Sigma_gas) in NGC 5194. VIRUS-P integral field spectroscopy is used to measure H-alpha, H-beta [NII]6548,6584, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Guillermo A. Blanc , Amanda Heiderman , Karl Gebhardt , Neal J. Evans , Joshua Adams

We investigate the [OII] emission-line as a star formation rate (SFR) indicator using integrated spectra of 97 galaxies from the Nearby Field Galaxies Survey (NFGS). The sample includes all Hubble types and contains SFRs ranging from 0.01…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lisa J. Kewley , Margaret J. Geller , Rolf A. Jansen

Using integrated optical spectrophotometry for 412 star-forming galaxies at z~0, and fiber-aperture spectrophotometry for 120,846 SDSS galaxies at z~0.1, we investigate the H-alpha, H-beta, [O II] 3727, and [O III] 5007 nebular emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 John Moustakas , Robert C. Kennicutt, , Christy A. Tremonti

We present the first results on the spatial distribution of dust attenuation at $1.0<z<2.4$ traced by the Balmer Decrement, H$\alpha$/H$\beta$, in emission-line galaxies using deep JWST NIRISS slitless spectroscopy from the CAnadian NIRISS…

We report results from a survey of high velocity clouds and the Magellanic Stream for faint, diffuse optical recombination emission lines. We detect H-alpha emission with surface brightness from 41 to 1680 milli-Rayleighs (mR) from HVCs,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin J. Weiner , Stuart N. Vogel , T. B. Williams