%0 Journal Article
%A Villar, Victor
%A Gallego Maestro, Jesús
%A Pérez González, Pablo Guillermo
%A Pascual, Sergio
%A Noeske, Kai
%A Koo, David C.
%A Barro, Guillermo
%A Zamorano Calvo, Jaime
%T The Hα-based star formation rate density of the universe at z=0.84
%D 2008
%@ 0004-637X
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51630
%X We present the results of an Hα near-infrared narrowband survey searching for star-forming galaxies at redshift z = 0.84. This work is an extension of our previous narrowband studies in the optical at lower redshifts. After removal of stars and redshift interlopers (using spectroscopic and photometric redshifts), we build a complete sample of 165 Hα emitters in the extended Groth strip and GOODS-N fields with L(Hα) > 10^41 ergs s^−1. We compute the Hα luminosity function at z = 0.84 after corrections for [N_π] flux contamination, extinction, systematic errors, and incompleteness. Our sources present an average dust extinction of A(H α) = 1.5 mag. Adopting Hα as a surrogate for the instantaneous SFR, we measure an extinction-corrected SFR density of 0.17^+0.03_−0.03 M_☉ yr^−1 Mpc^−3. Combining this result to our prior measurements at z = 0.02, 0.24, and 0.40, we derive an Hα-based evolution of the SFR density proportional to (1 + z)^β with β = 3.8 ± 0.5. This evolution is consistent with that derived by other authors using different SFR tracers.
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