{ "id": "1404.3942", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-04-15T14:52:00.000Z", "updated": "2014-10-12T16:17:03.000Z", "title": "Optical supernova remnants in nearby galaxies and their influence on star formation rates derived from H$α$ emission", "authors": [ "M. M. Vucetic", "B. Arbutina", "D. Urosevic" ], "comment": "18 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables + appendix; accepted by MNRAS", "categories": [ "astro-ph.GA" ], "abstract": "In this paper we present the most up-to-date list of nearby galaxies with optically detected supernova remnants (SNRs). We discuss the contribution of the H{\\alpha} flux from the SNRs to the total H{\\alpha} flux and its influence on derived star formation rate (SFR) for 18 galaxies in our sample. We found that the contribution of SNRs' flux to the total H{\\alpha} flux is 5 $\\pm$ 5 per cent. Due to the observational selection effects, the SNRs contamination of SFRs derived herein represents only a lower limit.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-04-15T14:52:00.000Z", "abstract": "In this paper we present the available sample of detected supernova remnants (SNRs) in optical range in nearby galaxies. We also discuss the contribution of the H$\\alpha$ flux from the SNRs to the total H$\\alpha$ flux and its influence to the derived star formation rate (SFR) for each galaxy. We obtain for the contribution of SNRs' flux to the total H$\\alpha$ flux up to 12% for analyzed galaxies. Due to the observational selection effects, the contamination of derived SFRs by SNRs obtained in this paper represents only a lower limit.", "comment": "15 pages, submitted to MNRAS", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-10-12T16:17:03.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "star formation rates", "optical supernova remnants", "nearby galaxies", "derived star formation rate", "observational selection effects" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1093/mnras/stu2093", "journal": "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", "year": 2015, "month": "Jan", "volume": 446, "number": 1, "pages": 943 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 18, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015MNRAS.446..943V" } } }