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An Ultraviolet Redshift Survey A New Estimate of the Local Star Formation Rate

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 9 7 0 6 2 2 3 v 2 2 7 J u n 1 9 9 7 An Ultraviolet Redshift Survey: A New Estimate of the Local Star Formation Rate M.A. Treyer1, R.S. Ellis2, B. Milliard3, J. Donas3 1 Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany 2 Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK 3 Laboratoire d’Astronomie Spatiale, Marseille, France Abstract. We present the first results of an ongoing spectroscopic survey of galaxies selected in the rest-frame ultraviolet. The source catalogue was con- structed from a flux-limited sample of stars, galaxies and QSOs imaged at 2000 A? with the FOCA balloon-borne camera ( [6]). The redshift distribution ob- tained for 45 galaxies spans 0 z 0.3 and a high fraction of the spectra show intense nebular emission lines and ultraviolet-optical colors considerably bluer than can be accounted for via normal Hubble sequence galaxies. From the rest-frame ultraviolet galaxy luminosity function, and adopting a normal IMF, we use the integrated UV light to our survey limit to estimate the local volume averaged star formation rate. We find a value significantly larger than recent estimates and argue this must be a lower limit to the true value. Our results suggest the local abundance of star-forming galaxies has been underestimated in surveys based on optical data. INTRODUCTION Considerable progress has recently been made in delineating the star for- mation history of normal field galaxies (see [1] for a recent review). However, it remains unclear whether the various star formation rates (SFR) are being inferred consistently. Various diagnostics have been used including nebular emission lines ( [2], [3]) and the far UV continuum flux ( [4], [5]). In most cases, these estimates are based on only the bright portion of the luminosity function. The existing and forthcoming data could be better interpreted if there was a greater overlap between the low and high redshift diagnostics. With this in mind, we are undertaking a deep UV-selected gala