Mentor: Kate Rubin, Ph.D. --> Associate Professor of Astronomy

A Galaxy's Spatially-Resolved Star Formation Rate.

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I extracted data for a galaxy of redshift (z) 0.0188 and elpetro_logmass (log of total stellar mass in solar masses) of 9.2098. As the star formation rate (SFR) tends to 0.00 it is closer to an effective radius of about 2.00 which corresponds to outer portion of the galaxy. Conversely, as the SFR tends toward larger numbers, it corresponds to a smaller effective radius leading toward the galaxy center. Hence, a larger SFR thrives in regions of smaller effective radii -- closer to the galaxy's center. 

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More recently: I am using the function I created to calculate the SFR for one galaxy to now extract and plot the SFR of 100 galaxies, all with z < 0.1 and elpetro_logmass > 9 but less than 10.