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 …

Binary population and spectral synthesis version 2.1: construction, observational verification, and new results

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway, L Xiao… - Publications of the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis suite of binary stellar evolution models and
synthetic stellar populations provides a framework for the physically motivated analysis of …

Near infrared spectroscopy and star-formation histories of 3≤ z≤ 4 quiescent galaxies

C Schreiber, K Glazebrook, T Nanayakkara… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
We present Keck–MOSFIRE H and K spectra for a sample of 24 candidate quiescent
galaxies at 3< z< 4, identified from their rest-frame UVJ colors and photometric redshifts in …

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 …

Analysis of galaxy spectral energy distributions from far-UV to far-IR with CIGALE: studying a SINGS test sample

S Noll, D Burgarella, E Giovannoli, V Buat… - Astronomy & …, 2009 - aanda.org
Aims. Photometric data of galaxies covering the rest-frame wavelength range from far-UV to
far-IR make it possible to derive galaxy properties with a high reliability by fitting the …

Metallicity calibrations and the mass-metallicity relation for star-forming galaxies

LJ Kewley, SL Ellison - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the effect of metallicity calibrations, AGN classification, and aperture covering
fraction on the local mass-metallicity (MZ) relation using 27,730 star-forming galaxies from …

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 …

Ubiquitous outflows in DEEP2 spectra of star-forming galaxies at z= 1.4

BJ Weiner, AL Coil, JX Prochaska… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Galactic winds are a prime suspect for the metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium
(IGM) and may have a strong influence on the chemical evolution of galaxies and the nature …

MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW)–III. Galactic wind properties using background quasars

I Schroetter, NF Bouché, J Zabl, T Contini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present results from our on-going MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) survey,
which consists of 22 quasar lines of sight, each observed with the integral field unit MUSE …

The mass assembly history of field galaxies: detection of an evolving mass limit for star-forming galaxies

K Bundy, RS Ellis, CJ Conselice, JE Taylor… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We characterize the mass-dependent evolution of more than 8000 galaxies using
spectroscopic redshifts from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey in the range 0.4< z< 1.4 and …