Towards universal hybrid star formation rate estimators
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Context. To compute the star formation rate (SFR) of galaxies from the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV), it is essential to take the obscuration by dust into account. To do so, one of the most popular methods consists in combining the UV with the emission from the dust itself in the infrared (IR). Yet, different studies have derived different estimators, showing that no such hybrid estimator is truly universal.
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Integrated-luminosity tracers infer instantaneous SFRs from the luminosity of short-lived massive stars and dust re-radiation, implicitly assuming a steady SFH and a fixed dust geometry.
“while other tracers infer instantaneous SFRs from the luminosity of short-lived massive stars and dust re-radiation, implicitly assuming a steady SFH and a fixed dust geometry”
From The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury (PHAST). II. The Spatially Resolved Recent Star Formation History in M31 (2026) · cites this paper as Boquien et al. 2016
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ESTIMATING THE STAR FORMATION RATE AT 1 kpc SCALES IN NEARBY GALAXIES
Leroy, A. K., Bigiel, F., de Blok, W. J. G., Boissier, S., Bolatto, A., Brinks, E., Madore, B., Munoz-Mateos, J.-C., Murphy, E., Sandstrom, K., et al. (2012) · The Astronomical Journal · doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/1/3 · Cited by 203 · cited 1× · see citing works
“This can be achieved for instance by directly processing the images or by estimating the level of the diffuse emission from an ancillary dataset (e.g., from a gas map, assuming the gas–to–dust mass ratio and the radiation field intensity due to old stars, Leroy et al. 2012).”
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Viaene, S., Baes, M., Tamm, A., Tempel, E., Bendo, G., Blommaert, J. A. D. L., Boquien, M., Boselli, A., Camps, P., Cooray, A., et al. (2017) · Astronomy & Astrophysics · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629251 · Cited by 79 · see citing works
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“…distribution of stellar ages and masses over a grid of lookback times, while other tracers infer instantaneous SFRs from the luminosity of short-lived massive stars and dust re-radiation, implicitly assuming a steady SFH and a fixed dust geometry (e.g., Kennicutt et al. 2009; Boquien et al. 2016).”
- Authors
- Boquien, M., Kennicutt, R., Calzetti, D., Dale, D., Galametz, M., Sauvage, M., Croxall, K., Draine, B., Kirkpatrick, A., Kumari, N., Hunt, L., De Looze, I., Pellegrini, E., Relaño, M., Smith, J.-D., & Tabatabaei, F.
- Affiliations
- Universidad de Antofagasta (CL)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
- University of Wyoming (US)
- European Southern Observatory (DE)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Princeton University (US)
- Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (IT)
- University of Toledo (US)
- Universidad de Granada (ES)
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (ES)
- Venue
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Published
- 2016-06-01
- Volume
- 591
- Pages
- A6
- ISSN
- 0004-6361 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-0746
- OpenAlex
- W2314305972
- Cited by
- 96
- References
- 1
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- 7.33
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- bronze
- doi.org
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- Astronomy and Astrophysics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
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- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAS5‐98034)
- California Institute of Technology (NAS5-98034)
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (AYA2013-41243-P)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/N000927/1, ST/M001334/1)
- Fondo de Innovación para la Competitividad
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Keywords
- star formation rate, dust attenuation, infrared emission, dust continuum emission, galaxies
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