Herschel Far-IR counterparts of SDSS galaxies: Analysis of commonly used Star Formation Rate estimates

Abstract

We study a hundred of galaxies from the spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey with individual detections in the Far-Infrared Herschel PACS bands (100 or 160 $\mu$m) and in the GALEX Far-UltraViolet band up to z$\sim$0.4 in the COSMOS and Lockman Hole fields. The galaxies are divided into 4 spectral and 4 morphological types. For the star forming and unclassifiable galaxies we calculate dust extinctions from the UV slope, the H$\alpha$/H$\beta$ ratio and the $L_{\mathrm{IR}}/L_{\mathrm{UV}}$ ratio. There is a tight correlation between the dust extinction and both $L_{\mathrm{IR}}$ and metallicity. We calculate SFR${}_{total}$ and compare it with other SFR estimates (H$\alpha$, UV, SDSS) finding a very good agreement between them with smaller dispersions than typical SFR uncertainties. We study the effect of mass and metallicity, finding that it is only significant at high masses for SFR${}_{H\alpha }$. For the AGN and composite galaxies we find a tight correlation between SFR and L${}_{IR}$ ($\sigma \sim$0.29), while the dispersion in the SFR - L${}_{UV}$ relation is larger ($\sigma \sim$0.57). The galaxies follow the prescriptions of the Fundamental Plane in the M-Z-SFR space.

arXiv comment24 pages, 23 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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