The evolving relation between star-formation rate and stellar mass in the VIDEO Survey since $z=3$

Abstract

We investigate the star-formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass ($M_{\ast }$) relation of a star-forming (SF) galaxy sample in the XMM-LSS field to $z\sim 3.0$ using the near-infrared data from the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey. Combining VIDEO with broad-band photometry, we use the SED fitting algorithm CIGALE to derive SFRs and $M_{\ast }$ and have adapted it to account for the full photometric redshift PDF uncertainty. Applying a SF selection using the D4000 index, we find evidence for strong evolution in the normalisation of the SFR-$M_{\ast }$ relation out to $z\sim 3$ and a roughly constant slope of (SFR $\propto M_{\ast }^{\alpha }$) $\alpha =0.69\pm 0.02$ to $z\sim 1.7$. We find this increases close to unity toward $z\sim 2.65$. Alternatively, if we apply a colour selection, we find a distinct turnover in the SFR-$M_{\ast }$ relation between $0.7\lesssim z\lesssim 2.0$ at the high mass end, and suggest that this is due to an increased contamination from passive galaxies. We find evolution of the specific SFR $\propto (1+z{)}^{2.60}$ at $\log (M_{\ast })\sim$10.5, out to $z\lesssim 2.4$ with an observed flattening beyond $z\sim$ 2 with increased stellar mass. Comparing to a range of simulations we find the analytical scaling relation approaches, that invoke an equilibrium model, a good fit to our data, suggesting that a continual smooth accretion regulated by continual outflows may be a key driver in the overall growth of SFGs.

19 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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