The radio luminosity density of star-burst galaxies and co-moving star formation rate

Details The radio luminosity density of star-burst galaxies and co-moving star formation rate The radio luminosity density of star-burst galaxies and co-moving star formation rate

1998-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808260v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 6 figures MNRAS submitted

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We present a new determination of the co-moving star formation density at redshifts z~<0.35 from the 1.4 GHz luminosity function of sub-mJy star-burst galaxies. Our sample, taken from Benn et al. (1993), is insensitive to dust obscuration. The shape of the Luminosity function of this sample is indistinguishable from a number of reasonable a prior models of the luminosity function. Using these shapes we calculate the modest corrections (typically ~< 20 per cent to the observed 1.4 GHz luminosity density. We find that the cosmic variance in our estimate of this luminosity density is large. We find a luminosity density in broad agreement with that from the RSA sample by Condon et al. (1987). We infer a co-moving star formation rate surprisingly similar to coeval estimates from the Canada-France Redshift Survey, in both ultraviolet and Halpha, although the later may also be affected by Cosmic variance. We conclude that the intermediate 0.05

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