The SFR–M* Relation and Empirical Star Formation Histories from ZFOURGE at 0.5 < z < 4

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Tomczak, Adam R., Quadri, Ryan F., Tran, Kim-Vy H., Labbé, Ivo, Straatman, Caroline M. S., Papovich, Casey, Glazebrook, Karl, Allen, Rebecca, Brammer, Gabreil B., Cowley, Michael, Dickinson, Mark, Elbaz, David, Inami, Hanae, Kacprzak, Glenn G., Morrison, Glenn E., Nanayakkara, Themiya, Persson, S. Eric, Rees, Glen A., Salmon, Brett, ..., Whitaker, Katherine E.. 2016. "The SFR–M* Relation and Empirical Star Formation Histories from ZFOURGE at 0.5 < z < 4." The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics. 817 (2), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/118
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The SFR–M* Relation and Empirical Star Formation Histories from ZFOURGE at 0.5 < z < 4

ERA Journal ID1057
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AuthorsTomczak, Adam R., Quadri, Ryan F., Tran, Kim-Vy H., Labbé, Ivo, Straatman, Caroline M. S., Papovich, Casey, Glazebrook, Karl, Allen, Rebecca, Brammer, Gabreil B., Cowley, Michael, Dickinson, Mark, Elbaz, David, Inami, Hanae, Kacprzak, Glenn G., Morrison, Glenn E., Nanayakkara, Themiya, Persson, S. Eric, Rees, Glen A., Salmon, Brett, Schreiber, Corentin, Spitler, Lee R. and Whitaker, Katherine E.
Journal TitleThe Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics
Journal Citation817 (2), pp. 1-16
Article Number118
Number of Pages16
Year2016
PublisherIOP Publishing
Place of PublicationUnited States
ISSN0004-637X
1538-4357
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/118
Web Address (URL)https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/118
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We explore star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies based on the evolution of the star formation rate stellar mass relation (SFR-M∗). Using data from the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE) in combination with far-IR imaging from the Spitzer and Herschel observatories we measure the SFR-M∗ relation at 0.5 < z < 4. Similar to recent works we find that the average infrared spectral energy distributions of galaxies are roughly consistent with a single infrared template across a broad range of redshifts and stellar masses, with evidence for only weak deviations. We find that the SFR-M∗ relation is not consistent with a single power law of the form at any redshift; it has a power law slope of α ∼ 1 at low masses, and becomes shallower above a turnover mass (M0) that ranges from 109.5 to 1010.8 M⊙, with evidence that M0 increases with redshift. We compare our measurements to results from state-of-the-art cosmological simulations, and find general agreement in the slope of the SFR-M∗ relation albeit with systematic offsets. We use the evolving SFR-M∗ sequence to generate SFHs, finding that typical SFRs of individual galaxies rise at early times and decline after reaching a peak. This peak occurs earlier for more massive galaxies. We integrate these SFHs to generate mass growth histories and compare to the implied mass growth from the evolution of the stellar mass function (SMF). We find that these two estimates are in broad qualitative agreement, but that there is room for improvement at a more detailed level. At early times the SFHs suggest mass growth rates that are as much as 10× higher than inferred from the SMF. However, at later times the SFHs under-predict the inferred evolution, as is expected in the case of additional growth due to mergers.

Keywordsgalaxies: evolution; galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; galaxies: star formation
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FunderDirectorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Byline AffiliationsTexas A&M University, United States
University of California, United States
Leiden University, Netherlands
Swinburne University of Technology
Australian Astronomical Observatory, Australia
Space Telescope Science Institute, United States
Macquarie University
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, United States
Paris Diderot University, France
University of Hawaii, United States
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, United States
Carnegie Observatories Pasadena, United States
University of Massachusetts, United States
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