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 …

The reversal of the star formation-density relation in the distant universe

D Elbaz, E Daddi, D Le Borgne, M Dickinson… - Astronomy & …, 2007 - aanda.org
Aims. We study the relationship between the local environment of galaxies and their star
formation rate (SFR) in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, GOODS, at. Methods …

Boötes-HiZELS: an optical to near-infrared survey of emission-line galaxies at z = 0.4–4.7

J Matthee, D Sobral, P Best, I Smail… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present a sample of∼ 1000 emission-line galaxies at z= 0.4–4.7 from the∼ 0.7 deg2
High-z Emission-Line Survey in the Boötes field identified with a suite of six narrow-band …

[O ii] as a star formation rate indicator

LJ Kewley, MJ Geller, RA Jansen - The Astronomical Journal, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the [O II] emission line as a star formation rate (SFR) indicator using
integrated spectra of 97 galaxies from the Nearby Field Galaxies Survey (NFGS). The …

On the evolution of star-forming galaxies

AM Hopkins - The Astrophysical Journal, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The evolution in the comoving space density of the global average galaxy star formation rate
(SFR) out to a redshift around unity is well established. Beyond z≈ 1 there is growing …

Star formation rate indicators in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

AM Hopkins, CJ Miller, RC Nichol… - The Astrophysical …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) first data release provides a database
of≈ 106,000 unique galaxies in the main galaxy sample with measured spectra. A sample …

Optical star formation rate indicators

J Moustakas, RC Kennicutt Jr… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
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 Hα …

Star formation at z=1.47 from HiZELS: an Hα+[O ii] double-blind study

D Sobral, PN Best, Y Matsuda, I Smail… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents the results from the first wide and deep dual narrow-band survey to
select Hα and [O ii] line emitters at z= 1.47±0.02, exploiting synergies between the United …

An integrated spectrophotometric survey of nearby star-forming galaxies

J Moustakas, RC Kennicutt Jr - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We present integrated optical spectrophotometry for a sample of 417 nearby galaxies. Our
observations consist of spatially integrated, S/N= 10-100 spectroscopy between 3600 and …

galev evolutionary synthesis models – I. Code, input physics and web interface

R Kotulla, U Fritze, P Weilbacher… - Monthly Notices of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Abstract galev (GALaxy EVolution) evolutionary synthesis models describe the evolution of
stellar populations in general, of star clusters as well as of galaxies, both in terms of resolved …