Star formation in the local Universe from the CALIFA sample: I. Calibrating the SFR using integral field spectroscopy data
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Catalan-Torrecilla, C.; Gil De Paz, A.; Castillo-Morales, A.; Iglesias-Paramo, J.; Sánchez, S. F.; Kennicutt, R. C.; Pérez-González, Pablo G.; Marino, R. A.; Walcher, C. J.; Husemann, B.; Garcia-Benito, R.; Mast, D.; Gonzalez Delgado, R. M.; Munõz-Mateos, J. C.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Bomans, D. J.; Del Olmo, A.; Galbany, L.; Gomes, J. M.; Kehrig, C.; López-Sánchez, A. R.; Mendoza, M. A.; Monreal-Ibero, Ana; Perez-Torres, M.; Sánchez-Blázquez, Patricia; Vilchez, J. M.; CALIFA, collaborationEntity
UAM. Departamento de Física TeóricaPublisher
EDP SciencesDate
2015-12-01Citation
10.1051/0004-6361/201526023
Astronomy and Astrophysics 584 (2015): A87
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0004-6361 (print); 1432-0746 (online)DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/201526023Funded by
The authors also thank the support from the Plan Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo funding programs, AYA2012-30717 and AyA2013-46724P, of Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO). P.G.P.-G. acknowledges support from the AYA2012-30717 and AYA2012-31277. J.I.P. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish MINECO under grant AYA2010-21887-C04-01 and from Junta de Andalucía Excellence Project PEX2011-FQM7058. R.A.M. is funded by the Spanish program of International Campus of Excellence Moncloa (CEI). M.A.P.T. acknowledges support from the Spanish MINECO through grant AYA2012-38491-C02-02. A.d.O. acknowledge financial support from the Spanish grant AYA2013-42227-P. Support for L.G. is provided by the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism’s Millennium Science Initiative through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, MAS. L.G. acknowledges support by CONICYT through FONDECYT grant 3140566. J.M.G. acknowledges support from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Fellowship SFRH/BPD/66958/2009 from FCT (Portugal) and POPH/FSE (EC) by FEDER funding through the program Programa Operacional de Factores de competitividade (COMPETE). J.M.G. also acknowledges support by FCT under project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-029170 (Reference FCT PTDC/FIS-AST/3214/2012), funded by FCTMEC (PIDDAC) and FEDER (COMPETE)Project
Gobierno de España. AYA2012-30717; Gobierno de España. AyA2013-46724P; Gobierno de España. AYA2012-30717; Gobierno de España. AYA2012-31277; Gobierno de España. AYA2010-21887-C04-01; Gobierno de España. AYA2012-38491-C02-02; Gobierno de España. AYA2013-42227-PEditor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526023Subjects
Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: spiral; Galaxies: star formation; Techniques: photometric; Techniques: spectroscopic; FísicaNote
Astronomy and Astrophysics 584 (2015): A87 reproduced with permission from Astronomy & Astrophysics, © ESORights
© ESO, 2015Abstract
The star formation rate (SFR) is one of the main parameters used to analyze the evolution of galaxies through time. The need for recovering the light reprocessed by dust commonly requires the use of low spatial resolution far-infrared data. Recombination line luminosities provide an alternative, although uncertain dust-extinction corrections based on narrowband imaging or long-slit spectroscopy have traditionally posed a limit to their applicability. Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) is clearly the way to overcome this kind of limitation. Aims. We obtain integrated Hα, ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR)-based SFR measurements for 272 galaxies from the CALIFA survey at 0.005 <z< 0.03 using single-band and hybrid tracers. We aim to determine whether the extinction-corrected Hα luminosities provide a good measure of the SFR and to shed light on the origin of the discrepancies between tracers. Updated calibrations referred to Hα are provided. The well-defined selection criteria and large statistics allow us to carry out this analysis globally and split by properties, including stellar mass and morphological type. Methods. We derive integrated, extinction-corrected Hα fluxes from CALIFA, UV surface and asymptotic photometry from GALEX and integrated WISE 22 μm and IRAS fluxes. Results. We find that the extinction-corrected Hα luminosity agrees with the hybrid updated SFR estimators based on either UV or Hα plus IR luminosity over the full range of SFRs (0.03-20 M⊙ yr-1). The coefficient that weights the amount of energy produced by newly-born stars that is reprocessed by dust on the hybrid tracers, aIR, shows a large dispersion. However, this coefficient does not became increasingly small at high attenuations, as expected if significant highly-obscured Hα emission were missed, i.e., after a Balmer decrement-based attenuation correction is applied. Lenticulars, early-type spirals, and type-2 AGN host galaxies show smaller coefficients because of the contribution of optical photons and AGN to dust heating. Conclusions. In the local Universe, the Hα luminosity derived from IFS observations can be used to measure SFR, at least in statistically-significant, optically-selected galaxy samples, once stellar continuum absorption and dust attenuation effects are accounted for. The analysis of the SFR calibrations by galaxies properties could potentially be used by other works to study the impact of different selection criteria in the SFR values derived, and to disentangle selection effects from other physically motivated differences, such as environmental or evolutionary effects
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Google Scholar:Catalan-Torrecilla, C.
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Gil De Paz, A.
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Castillo-Morales, A.
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Iglesias-Paramo, J.
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Sánchez, S. F.
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Kennicutt, R. C.
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Pérez-González, Pablo G.
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Marino, R. A.
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Walcher, C. J.
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Husemann, B.
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Garcia-Benito, R.
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Mast, D.
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Gonzalez Delgado, R. M.
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Munõz-Mateos, J. C.
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Bland-Hawthorn, J.
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Bomans, D. J.
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Del Olmo, A.
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Galbany, L.
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Gomes, J. M.
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Kehrig, C.
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López-Sánchez, A. R.
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Mendoza, M. A.
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Monreal-Ibero, Ana
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Perez-Torres, M.
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Sánchez-Blázquez, Patricia
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Vilchez, J. M.
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CALIFA, collaboration
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