Galaxy Mass, Metallicity, Radius and Star Formation Rates

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2011-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/1110.5862v4

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

34 pages plus bibliography and supplementary figures, 3 main figures, 131 supplementary online figures, ascii data tables avai

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Working with 108,786 Sloan Digital Sky Survey low redshift galaxies we have examined the relation between galaxy mass, metallicity, radius, and star formation rates primarily in the central portions of galaxies. We subdivided the redshift range covered in our sample, 0.07 2.0x10^10 Msun and large radii appear fed by infall. Smaller massive galaxies with high Zx and high star formation rates show more complex behavior. A mean-field-theory toy model for the physics of infall accounts for the (SFR) \propto Mi^(3/2) relation and permits us to estimate the mean densities and velocities of clumps of baryonic matter traversing the dark matter halos in which the SDSS galaxies may be embedded.

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