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The Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies as Seen by Herschel

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A Statistical and Multi-wavelength Study of Star Formation in Galaxies

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In this chapter I present an analysis of the deepest Herschel images in four major extragalactic fields: GOODS–North, GOODS–South, UDS, and COSMOS.

This chapter is essentially a reprint of a published article (Schreiber et al. 2015). Credit: C. Schreiber, A&A, 575, A74, 2015, reproduced with permission © ESO.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This field is also known as the Subary XMM Deep Survey (SXDS) field.

  2. 2.

    http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/herschel/science-archive.

  3. 3.

    http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/Research/PEP/DR1

  4. 4.

    http://code.google.com/p/eazy-photoz.

  5. 5.

    http://astro.berkeley.edu/string~mariska/FAST.html.

  6. 6.

    Using another IMF would systematically shift both our \(M_{*}\) and \(\mathrm{SFR}\)s by approximately the same amount, and therefore would not affect the shape of the Main Sequence.

  7. 7.

    Other star formation histories were considered, in particular with a constant or exponentially declining \(\mathrm{SFR}\). Selecting all galaxies from \(z>0.3\) to \(z<5\), no systematic offset is found, while the scatter evolves mildly from \(0.12\,\mathrm{dex}\) at \(M_{*}= 1\times 10^8\,\mathrm{M}_\odot \) to 0.08 at \(M_{*}= 3\times 10^{11}\,\mathrm{M}_\odot \).

  8. 8.

    These PSFs are normalized to unit integral flux, but are truncated beyond a certain radius. Therefore aperture correction is necessary to recover the total flux. These corrections were derived by the GOODS–Herschel team using in flight observation of Vesta.

  9. 9.

    These SEDs are effective in the sense that they are not necessarily the SED of the average galaxy in the sample: they are potentially broadened by the range of redshifts and dust temperatures of the galaxies in the stacked samples. In practice, we checked that the broadening due to the redshift distribution is negligible, and the photometry is well fitted by standard galaxy templates, as can be seen in Fig. 2.6.

  10. 10.

    This analysis was performed with Mathematica.

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Schreiber, C. (2016). The Main Sequence of Star-Forming Galaxies as Seen by Herschel. In: A Statistical and Multi-wavelength Study of Star Formation in Galaxies. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44293-8_2

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