Star formation in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies

RC Kennicutt Jr, NJ Evans - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
We review progress over the past decade in observations of large-scale star formation, with
a focus on the interface between extragalactic and Galactic studies. Methods of measuring …

Secular evolution and the formation of pseudobulges in disk galaxies

J Kormendy, RC Kennicutt Jr - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The Universe is in transition. At early times, galactic evolution was dominated by
hierarchical clustering and merging, processes that are violent and rapid. In the far future …

The host galaxy and redshift of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102

SP Tendulkar, CG Bassa, JM Cordes… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The precise localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB 121102) has provided the first
unambiguous association (chance coincidence probability p≲ 3× 10− 4) of an FRB with an …

The SAGA Survey. I. Satellite galaxy populations around eight Milky Way analogs

M Geha, RH Wechsler, YY Mao… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the survey strategy and early results of the" Satellites Around Galactic
Analogs"(SAGA) Survey. The SAGA Survey's goal is to measure the distribution of satellite …

Theoretical evolution of optical strong lines across cosmic time

LJ Kewley, MA Dopita, C Leitherer… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the chemical evolution predictions of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with
our latest theoretical stellar population synthesis, photoionization, and shock models to …

SINGS: the SIRTF nearby galaxies survey

RC Kennicutt, L Armus, G Bendo… - Publications of the …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The SIRTF Nearby Galaxy Survey is a comprehensive infrared imaging and
spectroscopic survey of 75 nearby galaxies. Its primary goal is to characterize the infrared …

The 60 pc Environment of FRB 20180916B

SP Tendulkar, AG de Paz, AY Kirichenko… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast radio burst FRB 20180916B in its host galaxy SDSS J015800. 28+ 654253.0 at 149
Mpc is by far the closest-known FRB with a robust host galaxy association. The source also …

The calibration of mid-infrared star formation rate indicators

D Calzetti, RC Kennicutt, CW Engelbracht… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
With the goal of investigating the degree to which the MIR emission traces the SFR, we
analyze Spitzer 8 and 24 μm data of star-forming regions in a sample of 33 nearby galaxies …

Comparison of Hα and UV star formation rates in the local volume: systematic discrepancies for dwarf galaxies

JC Lee, AG De Paz, C Tremonti… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a complete sample of∼ 300 star-forming galaxies within 11 Mpc of the Milky Way, we
evaluate the consistency between star formation rates (SFRs) inferred from the far ultraviolet …

Dust-corrected star formation rates of galaxies. I. combinations of Hα and infrared tracers

RC Kennicutt, CN Hao, D Calzetti… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine Hα emission-line and infrared (IR) continuum measurements of two samples of
nearby galaxies to derive dust attenuation-corrected star formation rates (SFRs). We use a …