starformation_rate_distributions module

Functions to handle calculating the star formation and meta;licity distributions

TODO: Force these functions to return a certain astropy unit TODO: go through all papers and find what unit they use TODO: add https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13704 (MW models) TODO: add https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ…898…71B/abstract (MW models) TODO: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05938 TODO: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ARA%26A..50..531K/abstract TODO: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4256 TODO: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11321 TODO: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2014/11/aa24441-14/aa24441-14.html

DH0001_file

syntheticstellarpopconvolve.starformation_rate_distributions.madau_dickinson_sfr(redshifts, a, b, c, d)[source]
Cosmological star formation rate density from Madau & Dickinson (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ARA%26A..52..415M/abstract)

{‘a’: 0.015, ‘b’: 2.7, ‘c’: 2.9, ‘d’: 5.6}

as a function of redshift.

Used in Neijsel et al 2019 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.490.3740N/abstract)

syntheticstellarpopconvolve.starformation_rate_distributions.mor19_sfr(config, lookback_time)[source]

Star-formation rate as a function of time (years) since the birth of the milky way, based on Gaia DR2 from Mor et al. 2019 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019A%26A…624L…1M/abstract)

Input: time since birth of the Galaxy / years

syntheticstellarpopconvolve.starformation_rate_distributions.starformation_rate_distribution_vanSon2023(redshifts)[source]

Cosmological star formation rate density used in van Son 2021. Based on Madau & Dickinson SFR.