A Multi-Wavelength Census of Star Formation at Redshift z~2
by Naveen A. Reddy
- Number of Pages: 207
- ISBN-10: 1581123310
- ISBN-13: 9781581123319
- Publisher:
Dissertation.com
- Year: 2006
- Category:
Physics & Chemistry,
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We examine the census of star-forming galaxies and their extinction
properties at redshift z~2, when a large fraction of the stellar mass
in the universe formed. We find a good agreement between the X-ray,
radio, and de-reddened UV estimates of the average star formation rate
(SFR) for our sample of z~2 galaxies of ~50 Msun/yr, indicating that
the locally calibrated SFR relations appear to be statistically valid
from redshifts 1.5