Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-09-12
Astrophys.J.632:L79-L82,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 2 Postscript figures, published by ApJ Letter
Scientific paper
10.1086/497961
We present evidence that the 8 $\mu$m (dust) and 24 $\mu$m luminosities of star-forming galaxies are both strongly correlated with their 1.4 GHz and H$\alpha$ luminosities over a range in luminosity of two-to-three orders of magnitude. At the bright end, the correlations are found to be essentially linear over a luminosity range of about two orders of magnitude (corresponding to star-formation rates of several-tenths to several tens of solar masses per year). However, at the faint end, there appears to be a slope change for dwarf galaxies, possibly due to the lower dust-to-gas ratios and lower metallicities of the dwarfs. The correlations suggest that PAH features and mid-IR continuum emissions are good measures of the star formation rates of galaxies, and we present calibrations of star-formation rates based on existing radio and H$\alpha$ relations. Our findings are based on a sample of star-forming galaxies selected from the main field of the Spitzer First Look Survey with the aid of spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and VLA 1.4 GHz data.
Cao Chen
Deng Zu-Gang
Hao C.-N.
Liu Feng-Shan
Wang Jane-Ling
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