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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 395, Issue 1, Pages 394-400Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14522.x
Keywords
stars: formation; stars: luminosity function, mass function; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: fundamental parameters; galaxies: irregular; cosmology: observations
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- DFG [KR1635/20]
- European Commission Marie Curie Research Training Grant CONSTELLATION [MRTN-CT-2006-035890]
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Although the stellar initial mass function (IMF) has only been directly determined in star clusters, it has been manifoldly applied on galaxy-wide scales. But taking the clustered nature of star formation into account the galaxy-wide IMF is constructed by adding all IMFs of all young star clusters leading to an integrated galactic initial mass function (IGIMF). The IGIMF is top-light compared to the canonical IMF in star clusters and steepens with decreasing total star formation rate (SFR). This discrepancy is marginal for large disc galaxies but becomes significant for Small Magellanic Cloud type galaxies and less massive ones. We here construct IGIMF-based relations between the total far- and near-ultraviolet luminosities of galaxies and the underlying SFR. We make the prediction that the Ha luminosity of star-forming dwarf galaxies decreases faster with decreasing SFR than the ultraviolet (UV) luminosity. This turn-down of the H alpha/UV-flux ratio should be evident below total SFRs of 10(-2) M-circle dot yr(-1).
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