The total infrared luminosity may significantly overestimate the star formation rate of quenching and recently quenched galaxies
C. C. Hayward,
L. Lanz,
M. L. N. Ashby,
G. Fazio,
L. Hernquist,
J. R. Martínez-Galarza,
K. Noeske,
H. A. Smith,
S. Wuyts,
A. Zezas
Dec 01, 2014
The total infrared (IR) luminosity is very useful for estimating the star formation rate (SFR) of galaxies, but converting the IR luminosity into an SFR relies on assumptions that do not hold for all galaxies. We test the...