The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2024)
CEERS: 7.7 μm PAH Star Formation Rate Calibration with JWST MIRI
- Kaila Ronayne,
- Casey Papovich,
- Guang Yang,
- Lu Shen,
- Mark Dickinson,
- Robert Kennicutt,
- Anahita Alavi,
- Pablo Arrabal Haro,
- Micaela B. Bagley,
- Denis Burgarella,
- Aurélien Le Bail,
- Eric F. Bell,
- Nikko J. Cleri,
- Justin Cole,
- Luca Costantin,
- Alexander de la Vega,
- Emanuele Daddi,
- David Elbaz,
- Steven L. Finkelstein,
- Norman A. Grogin,
- Benne W. Holwerda,
- Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe,
- Allison Kirkpatrick,
- Anton M. Koekemoer,
- Ray A. Lucas,
- Benjamin Magnelli,
- Bahram Mobasher,
- Pablo G. Pérez-González,
- Laura Prichard,
- Marc Rafelski,
- Giulia Rodighiero,
- Ben Sunnquist,
- Harry I. Teplitz,
- Xin Wang,
- Rogier A. Windhorst,
- L. Y. Aaron Yung
Affiliations
- Kaila Ronayne
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
- Casey Papovich
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
- Guang Yang
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- Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen , P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands; SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research , Postbus 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
- Lu Shen
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
- Mark Dickinson
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Robert Kennicutt
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Anahita Alavi
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Pablo Arrabal Haro
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- NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory , 950 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
- Micaela B. Bagley
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX, USA
- Denis Burgarella
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- Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, CNES, LAM Marseille, France
- Aurélien Le Bail
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité , CEA, CNRS, AIM, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Eric F. Bell
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , 1085 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, USA
- Nikko J. Cleri
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
- Justin Cole
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA; George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA
- Luca Costantin
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- Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) , CSIC-INTA, Ctra de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, 28850, Madrid, Spain
- Alexander de la Vega
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521, USA
- Emanuele Daddi
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité , CEA, CNRS, AIM, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- David Elbaz
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité , CEA, CNRS, AIM, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Steven L. Finkelstein
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- Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX, USA
- Norman A. Grogin
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD, USA
- Benne W. Holwerda
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- Physics & Astronomy Department, University of Louisville , Louisville, KY 40292, USA
- Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe
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- Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology , 84 Lomb Memorial Dr., Rochester, NY 14623, USA
- Allison Kirkpatrick
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas , Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
- Anton M. Koekemoer
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Ray A. Lucas
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Benjamin Magnelli
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Cité , CEA, CNRS, AIM, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Bahram Mobasher
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California , 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521, USA
- Pablo G. Pérez-González
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- Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) , CSIC-INTA, Ctra de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, 28850, Madrid, Spain
- Laura Prichard
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD, USA
- Marc Rafelski
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Giulia Rodighiero
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Università degli Studi di Padova , Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 3, I-35122, Padova, Italy; INAF—Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova , Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, I-35122, Padova, Italy
- Ben Sunnquist
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Harry I. Teplitz
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Xin Wang
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- School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) , Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
- Rogier A. Windhorst
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University , Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, USA
- L. Y. Aaron Yung
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5006
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 970,
no. 1
p. 61
Abstract
We test the relationship between UV-derived star formation rates (SFRs) and the 7.7 μ m polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon luminosities from the integrated emission of galaxies at z ∼ 0–2. We utilize multiband photometry covering 0.2–160 μ m from the Hubble Space Telescope, CFHT, JWST, Spitzer, and Herschel for galaxies in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. We perform spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling of these data to measure dust-corrected far-UV (FUV) luminosities, L _FUV , and UV-derived SFRs. We then fit SED models to the JWST/MIRI 7.7–21 μ m CEERS data to derive rest-frame 7.7 μ m luminosities, L _770 , using the average flux density in the rest-frame MIRI F770W bandpass. We observe a correlation between L _770 and L _FUV , where $\mathrm{log}{L}_{770}\propto (1.27\pm 0.04)\mathrm{log}{L}_{\mathrm{FUV}}$ . L _770 diverges from this relation for galaxies at lower metallicities, lower dust obscuration, and for galaxies dominated by evolved stellar populations. We derive a “single-wavelength” SFR calibration for L _770 that has a scatter from model estimated SFRs ( σ _ΔSFR ) of 0.24 dex. We derive a “multiwavelength” calibration for the linear combination of the observed FUV luminosity (uncorrected for dust) and the rest-frame 7.7 μ m luminosity, which has a scatter of σ _ΔSFR = 0.21 dex. The relatively small decrease in σ suggests this is near the systematic accuracy of the total SFRs using either calibration. These results demonstrate that the rest-frame 7.7 μ m emission constrained by JWST/MIRI is a tracer of the SFR for distant galaxies to this accuracy, provided the galaxies are dominated by star formation with moderate-to-high levels of attenuation and metallicity.
Keywords
- Star formation
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Galaxy evolution
- Infrared galaxies
