Ram pressure strip** in high-density environments

A Boselli, M Fossati, M Sun - The Astronomy and astrophysics review, 2022 - Springer
Galaxies living in rich environments are suffering different perturbations able to drastically
affect their evolution. Among these, ram pressure strip**, ie the pressure exerted by the …

Star formation in galaxies along the Hubble sequence

RC Kennicutt Jr - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1998 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Observations of star formation rates (SFRs) in galaxies provide vital clues to the
physical nature of the Hubble sequence and are key probes of the evolutionary histories of …

A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy

B Marcote, K Nimmo, JWT Hessels, SP Tendulkar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, bright, extragalactic radio flashes,. Their physical origin
remains unknown, but dozens of possible models have been postulated. Some FRB sources …

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 …

Galactic stellar and substellar initial mass function1

G Chabrier - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent determinations of the present‐day mass function (PDMF) and initial mass
function (IMF) in various components of the Galaxy—disk, spheroid, young, and globular …

The global Schmidt law in star-forming galaxies

RC Kennicutt Jr - The astrophysical journal, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
Measurements of H α, HI, and CO distributions in 61 normal spiral galaxies are combined
with published far-infrared and CO observations of 36 infrared-selected starburst galaxies, in …

The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe

J Brinchmann, S Charlot, SDM White… - Monthly notices of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We present a comprehensive study of the physical properties of∼ 105 galaxies with
measurable star formation in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). By comparing physical …

Dust-corrected star formation rates of galaxies. II. Combinations of ultraviolet and infrared tracers

CN Hao, RC Kennicutt, BD Johnson… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new calibrations of far-ultraviolet (FUV) attenuation as derived from the total
infrared to FUV luminosity ratio (IRX) and the FUV–near-UV (NUV) color. We find that the …

K-corrections and filter transformations in the ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared

MR Blanton, S Roweis - The Astronomical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Template fits to observed galaxy fluxes allow calculation of K-corrections and conversions
among observations of galaxies at various wavelengths. We present a method for creating …

On the normalization of the cosmic star formation history

AM Hopkins, JF Beacom - The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Strong constraints on the cosmic star formation history (SFH) have recently been established
using ultraviolet and far-infrared measurements, refining the results of numerous …