Star-Forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- The View from Pittsburgh

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2003-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312069v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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To be published in Proceedings of the ESO/USM/MPE Workshop on "Multiwavelength Mapping of Galaxy Formation and Evolution"

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We used data from the Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in order to define a catalog of about 13,000 star-forming galaxies (SFG). We discuss the results of two projects. First, we matched our catalog against the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) and catalogs of pointed ROSAT observations. We identify eight X-ray emitting star-forming galaxies; four were known previously, e.g., the famous "most metal-poor" dwarf galaxy I Zw 18, but another four are new identifications. The data confirm the calibration of X-ray luminosity to a star-formation rate (SFR) by Ranalli et al. (2003), and are used to derive SFRs for these SDSS SFGs. We also suggest two new candidate galaxy clusters. Second, after carefully eliminating all cases of "shredded" SFGs, we derive total absolute blue magnitudes and ionized gas metallicities (O/H ratios). We discuss the luminosity-metallicity (L-Z) relation for galaxies of different physical size (compact, small and large depending on Petrosian half-light radius, R$_e$). We report the discovery of evolution in the L-Z relation for the redshift range from 0 to 0.3, in the sense that galaxies at higher redshifts tend to have lower O/H ratios at a given luminosity. This evolution is strongest for large galaxies, and weakest for compact galaxies.

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