The Global Star Formation Rate from the 1.4 GHz Luminosity Function

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1998-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808228v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 2 figures, Astrophysical Journal Letters (in press); new PS version has improved figure placement

Scientific paper

10.1086/311651

The decimetric luminosity of many galaxies appears to be dominated by synchrotron emission excited by supernova explosions. Simple models suggest that the luminosity is directly proportional to the rate of supernova explosions of massive stars averaged over the past 30 Myr. The proportionality may be used together with models of the evolving 1.4 GHz luminosity function to estimate the global star formation rate density in the era z < 1. The local value is estimated to be 0.026 solar masses per year per cubic megaparsec, some 50% larger than the value inferred from the Halpha luminosity density. The value at z ~ 1 is found to be 0.30 solar masses per year per cubic megaparsec. The 10-fold increase in star formation rate density is consistent with the increase inferred from mm-wave, far-infrared, ultra-violet and Halpha observations.

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