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The star formation rate - stellar mass relation (SFR-M*) and its evolution (i.e., the SFR main sequence) describes the growth rate of galaxies of a given stellar mass and at a given redshift. Assuming that present-day star-forming galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-17 Samuel N. Leitner

We investigate the star formation history of the universe using FIREWORKS, a multiwavelength survey of the CDFS. We study the evolution of the specific star formation rate (sSFR) with redshift in different mass bins from z = 0 to z ~ 3. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Maaike Damen , Natascha M. Förster Schreiber , Marijn Franx , Ivo Labbé , Sune Toft , Pieter G. van Dokkum , Stijn Wuyts

We explore the build-up of stellar mass in galaxies over a wide redshift range 0.4 < z < 5.0 by studying the evolution of the specific star formation rate (SSFR), defined as the star formation rate per unit stellar mass, as a function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 Georg Feulner , Armin Gabasch , Mara Salvato , Niv Drory , Ulrich Hopp , Ralf Bender

The star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies provide valuable insights into galaxy evolution and stellar physics. Understanding the SFHs enables the study of chemical enrichment of galaxies, star formation triggered by interactions, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-13 Yi Ren , Biwei Jiang , Yuxi Wang , Ming Yang , Zhiqiang Yan

Observations of star formation rates (SFRs) in galaxies provide vital clues to the physical nature of the Hubble sequence, and are key probes of the evolutionary properties of galaxies. The focus of this review is on the broad patterns in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Robert C. Kennicutt,

We present the star formation rate (SFR) and starburst fraction (SBF) for a sample of field galaxies from the ICBS intermediate-redshift cluster survey. We use [O II] and Spitzer 24 micron fluxes to measure SFRs, and 24 micron fluxes and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Alan Dressler , Augustus Oemler, , Michael G. Gladders , Lei Bai , Jane R. Rigby , Bianca M. Poggianti

We have used a sample of 15749 galaxies taken from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey to investigate the effects of environment on the rate of star formation (SFR) in galaxies. The size and homogeneity of this data set allows us to sample,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yasuhiro Hashimoto , Augustus Oemler , Huan Lin , Douglas L. Tucker

Distant galaxies show correlations between their current star-formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses, implying that their star-formation histories (SFHs) are highly similar. Moreover, observations show that the UV luminosities and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Casey Papovich , Steven L. Finkelstein , Henry C. Ferguson , Jennifer M. Lotz , Mauro Giavalisco

We constrain the mass distribution in nearby, star-forming galaxies with the Star Formation Reference Survey (SFRS), a galaxy sample constructed to be representative of all known combinations of star formation rate (SFR), dust temperature,…

We have conducted an H-alpha survey of 38 0.77<z<1 galaxies over ~100 arcmin^2 of the Hubble Deep Field North and Flanking Fields, to determine star formation rates (SFRs), with the near-infrared multi-object spectrograph CIRPASS on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michelle Doherty , Andrew Bunker , Robert Sharp , Gavin Dalton , Ian Parry , Ian Lewis

We present results of our 1.4 GHz image stacking analysis of mass-selected galaxies in the COSMOS field. From the resulting median radio continuum flux density we have determined the evolution of the average star formation rate (SFR) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-09 Alexander Karim , Eva Schinnerer , the VLA-COSMOS , COSMOS collaborations

This paper presents the spatially resolved star formation history (SFH) of nearby galaxies with the aim of furthering our understanding of the different processes involved in the formation and evolution of galaxies. To this end, we apply…

The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is the deepest set of multicolor optical photometric observations ever undertaken, and offers a valuable data set with which to study galaxy evolution. Combining the optical WFPC2 data with ground-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. J. Connolly , A. S. Szalay , Mark Dickinson , M. U. SubbaRao , R. J. Brunner

We present uniformly measured star formation histories (SFHs) of 40 Local Group dwarf galaxies based on color-magnitude diagram (CMD) analysis from archival Hubble Space Telescope imaging. We demonstrate that accurate SFHs can be recovered…

We determine the global star formation rate density at 0.7<z<1.9 using emission-line selected galaxies identified in Hubble Space Telescope Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph (HST-NICMOS) grism spectroscopy observations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Hyunjin Shim , James Colbert , Harry Teplitz , Alaina Henry , Mattew Malkan , Patrick McCarthy , Lin Yan

The star formation histories of Local Group galaxies are summarized. The three large spirals are discussed individually, whereas the discussion of the Local Group dwarfs concentrates on differences and commonalities. While Local Group…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eva K Grebel

(Abridged) We present in this paper a detailed analysis of the effect of environment on the star-formation activity of galaxies within the EDR of the SDSS. We have used the Halpha emission line to derive the star-formation rate (SFR) for…

We examine the star formation rates (SFRs) of galaxies in a redshift slice encompassing the z=0.834 cluster RX J0152.7-1357. We used a low-dispersion prism in the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (IMACS) to identify galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Shannon G. Patel , Bradford P. Holden , Daniel D. Kelson , Garth D. Illingworth , Marijn Franx

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 star formation rate density (SFRD) is an important tool in galaxy evolution that allows us to identify at which cosmic time galaxies are more efficient at forming stars. For low-mass star-forming galaxies, the SFRD as a function of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-07 G. G. Murrell , I. K. Baldry