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Physical properties of local star-forming analogues toz∼ 5 Lyman break galaxies
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Greis, Stephanie M. L., Stanway, Elizabeth R., Davies, Luke J. M. and Levan, Andrew J. (2016) Physical properties of local star-forming analogues toz∼ 5 Lyman break galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459 (3). pp. 2591-2602. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw722 ISSN 1365-2966.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw722
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Intense, compact, star-forming galaxies are rare in the local Universe but ubiquitous at high redshift. We interpret the 0.1-22 μm spectral energy distributions (SED) of a sample of 180 galaxies at 0.05 < z < 0.25 selected for extremely high surface densities of inferred star formation in the ultraviolet. By comparison with well-established stellar population synthesis models we find that our sample comprises young (∼ 60 - 400 Myrs), moderate mass (∼6 × 109 M⊙) star-forming galaxies with little dust extinction (mean stellar continuum extinction Econt(B − V) ∼ 0.1) and find star formation rates of a few tens of Solar masses per year. We use our inferred masses to determine a mean specific star formation rate for this sample of ∼10−9 yr−1, and compare this to the specific star formation rates in distant Lyman break galaxies (LBGs), and in other low redshift populations. We conclude that our sample's characteristics overlap significantly with those of the z ∼ 5 LBG population, making ours the first local analogue population well tuned to match those high redshift galaxies. We consider implications for the origin and evolution of early galaxies.
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