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Specific Star Formation Rate Profiles in Nearby Spiral Galaxies: Quantifying the Inside-Out Formation of Disks
We present specific star formation rate (sSFR) radial profiles for asample of 161 relatively face-on spiral galaxies from the GALEX Atlas ofNearby Galaxies. The sSFR profiles are derived from GALEX and 2MASS(FUV-K) color profiles after a proper SFR calibration of the UVluminosity and K-band mass-to-light ratio are adopted. The (FUV-K)profiles were first corrected for foreground Galactic extinction andlater for internal extinction using the ratio of the total-infrared(TIR) to FUV emission. For those objects where TIR-to-FUV ratio radialprofiles were not available, the (FUV-NUV) color profiles were used as ameasure of the UV slope. The sSFR radial gradients derived from theseprofiles allow us to quantify the inside-out scenario for the growth ofspiral disks for the first time in the local universe. We find a largedispersion in the slope of the sSFR profiles with a slightly positivemean value, which implies a moderate inside-out disk formation. There isalso a strong dependency of the value of this slope on the luminosityand size of the disks, with large systems showing a uniform, slightlypositive slope in almost all cases and low-luminosity small disksshowing a large dispersion with both positive and negative large values.While a majority of the galaxies can be interpreted as forming starsgradually either from inside out or from outside in, a few disks requireepisodes of enhanced recent growth with scale lengths of the SFR (or gasinfall) being significantly larger at present than in the past. We donot find any clear dependence of the sSFR gradient on the environment(local galaxy density or presence of close neighbors).
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| The morphological catalogue of galaxies equatorial survey
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