Robert C Kennicutt

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Research

observational extragalactic astronomy

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Cook, D. O., Lee, J. C., Adamo, A., Calzetti, D., Chandar, R., Whitmore, B. C., Aloisi, A., Cignoni, M., Dale, D. A., Elmegreen, B. G., Fumagalli, M., Grasha, K., Johnson, K. E., Kennicutt, R. C., Kim, H., Linden, S. T., Messa, M., Östlin, G., Ryon, J. E., , Sacchi, E., et al. (2022). Fraction of stars in clusters for the LEGUS dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519(3), 3749-3775. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac3748
• Baldi, R., Williams, D., McHardy, I., Beswick, R., Brinks, E., Dullo, B., Knapen, J., Argo, M., Aalto, S., Alberdi, A., Baan, W., Bendo, G., Corbel, S., Fenech, D., Gallagher, J., Green, D., Kennicutt, R., Kl{"ockner}, H. -., K{"ording}, E., , Maccarone, T., et al. (2021). "LeMMINGs - II. The e-MERLIN legacy survey of nearby galaxies. The deepest radio view of the Palomar sample on parsec scale". mnras, 500(4), 4749-4767.
• Calzetti, D., Battisti, A. J., Shivaei, I., Messa, M., Cignoni, M., Adamo, A., Dale, D. A., Gallagher, J. S., Grasha, K., Grebel, E. K., Kennicutt, R. C., Linden, S. T., {"Ostlin}, G., Sabbi, E., Smith, L. J., Tosi, M., & Wofford, A. (2021). "Revisiting Attenuation Curves: The Case of NGC 3351". apj, 913(1), 37.
• Dishoeck, E. F., & Kennicutt, R. C. (2021). "Introduction". araa, 59.
• Gim, H. B., Borthakur, S., Momjian, E., Padave, M., Jansen, R. A., Nelson, D., Heckman, T. M., Kennicutt Jr., ., Fox, A. J., Pineda, J. L., Thilker, D., Kauffmann, G., & Tumlinson, J. (2021). "DIISC-I: The Discovery of Kinematically Anomalous H I Clouds in M 100". apj, 922(1), 69.
• Kennicutt Jr., ., & De, L. (2021). "Revisiting the Integrated Star Formation Law. II. Starbursts and the Combined Global Schmidt Law". apj, 908(1), 61.
• Menon, S. H., Grasha, K., Elmegreen, B. G., Federrath, C., Krumholz, M. R., Calzetti, D., S{'anchez}, N., Linden, S. T., Adamo, A., Messa, M., Cook, D. O., Dale, D. A., Grebel, E. K., Fumagalli, M., Sabbi, E., Johnson, K. E., Smith, L. J., & Kennicutt, R. C. (2021). "The dependence of the hierarchical distribution of star clusters on galactic environment". mnras, 507(4), 5542-5566.
• Padave, M., Borthakur, S., Gim, H. B., Jansen, R. A., Thilker, D., Heckman, T., Kennicutt, R. C., Momjian, E., & Fox, A. J. (2021). "DIISC-II: Unveiling the Connections between Star Formation and Interstellar Medium in the Extended Ultraviolet Disk of NGC 3344". apj, 923(2), 199.
• Sutter, J., Dale, D. A., Sandstrom, K., Smith, J., Bolatto, A., Boquien, M., Calzetti, D., Croxall, K. V., De, L. I., Galametz, M., Groves, B. A., Helou, G., Herrera-Camus, R., Hunt, L. K., Kennicutt, R. C., Pelligrini, E. W., Wilson, C., & Wolfire, M. G. (2021). "The case for thermalization as a contributor to the [C II] deficit". mnras, 503(1), 911-919.
• Zhang, H., Zaritsky, D., Olsen, K. P., Behroozi, P., Werk, J., Kennicutt, R., Xie, L., Yang, X., Fang, T., De, L. G., Hirschmann, M., & Fontanot, F. (2021). "An Empirical Determination of the Dependence of the Circumgalactic Mass Cooling Rate and Feedback Mass Loading Factor on Galactic Stellar Mass". apj, 916(2), 101.
• Aniano, G., Draine, B., Hunt, L., Sandstrom, K., Calzetti, D., Kennicutt, R., Dale, D., Galametz, M., Gordon, K., Leroy, A., Smith, J. -., Roussel, H., Sauvage, M., Walter, F., Armus, L., Bolatto, A., Boquien, M., Crocker, A., De Looze, I., , Donovan Meyer, J., et al. (2020). Modeling Dust and Starlight in Galaxies Observed by Spitzer and Herschel: The KINGFISH Sample. \apj, 889(2), 150.
• Baldi, R. D., Williams, D. R., McHardy, I. M., Beswick, R. J., Brinks, E., Dullo, B. T., Knapen, J. H., Argo, M. K., Aalto, S., Alberdi, A., Baan, W. A., Bendo, G. J., Corbel, S., Fenech, D. M., Gallagher, J. S., Green, D. A., Kennicutt, R. C., Klöckner, H., Körding, E., , Maccarone, T. J., et al. (2020). LeMMINGs – II. The e-MERLIN legacy survey of nearby galaxies. The deepest radio view of the Palomar sample on parsec scale. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(4), 4749-4767. doi:10.1093/mnras/staa3519
• De Looze, I., Lamperti, I., Saintonge, A., Rela{\~no}, M., Smith, M., Clark, C., Wilson, C., Decleir, M., Jones, A., Kennicutt, R., Accurso, G., Brinks, E., Bureau, M., Cigan, P., Clements, D., De Vis, P., Fanciullo, L., Gao, Y., Gear, W., , Ho, L., et al. (2020). JINGLE - IV. Dust, H I gas, and metal scaling laws in the local Universe. \mnras, 496(3), 3668-3687.
• Dishoeck, E. F., & Kennicutt, R. C. (2020). Introduction. \araa, 58, v-vii.
• Linden, S., Murphy, E., Dong, D., Momjian, E., Kennicutt Jr., ., Meier, D., Schinnerer, E., & Turner, J. (2020). The Star Formation in Radio Survey: 3-33 GHz Imaging of Nearby Galaxy Nuclei and Extranuclear Star-forming Regions. \apjs, 248(2), 25.
• Rela{\~no}, M., Lisenfeld, U., Hou, K. -., De Looze, I., V{\'\ilchez}, J., & Kennicutt, R. (2020). Evolution of grain size distribution in galactic discs. \aap, 636, A18.
• Vale Asari, N., Wild, V., Amorim, A., Werle, A., Zheng, Y., Kennicutt, R., Johnson, B., Galametz, M., Pellegrini, E., Klessen, R., Reissl, S., Glover, S., & Rahner, D. (2020). Less than the sum of its parts: the dust-corrected H \ensuremath{\alpha} luminosity of star-forming galaxies explored at different spatial resolutions with MaNGA and MUSE. \mnras, 498(3), 4205-4221.
• Cook, D., Lee, J., Adamo, A., Kim, H., {Chand, a. R., Whitmore, B., Mok, A., Ryon, J., Dale, D., Calzetti, D., Andrews, J., Aloisi, A., Ashworth, G., Bright, S., Brown, T., Christian, C., Cignoni, M., Clayton, G., Silva, R., , Mink, S., et al. (2019). Star cluster catalogues for the LEGUS dwarf galaxies. \mnras, 484(4), 4897-4919.
• Crocker, A. F., Pellegrini, E., Smith, J. -., Draine, B. T., Wilson, C. D., Wolfire, M., Armus, L., Brinks, E., Dale, D. A., Groves, B., Herrera-Camus, R., Hunt, L. K., Kennicutt, R. C., Murphy, E. J., Sandstrom, K., Schinnerer, E., Rigopoulou, D., Rosolowsky, E., & Werf, P. (2019). [C I](1─0) and [C I](2─1) in Resolved Local Galaxies. \apj, 887(1), 105.
• Decleir, M., De, L. I., Boquien, M., Baes, M., Verstocken, S., Calzetti, D., Ciesla, L., Fritz, J., Kennicutt, R., Nersesian, A., & Page, M. (2019). Revealing the dust attenuation properties on resolved scales in NGC 628 with SWIFT UVOT data. \mnras, 486(1), 743-767.
• D{\v{z}ud\v{z}ar}, R., Kilborn, V., Meurer, G., Sweet, S. M., Drinkwater, M., Bekki, K., Audcent-Ross, F., Koribalski, B., Kim, J. H., Putman, M., Ryan-Weber, E., Zwaan, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Dopita, M., Doyle-Pegg, M. T., Elson, E. d., Freeman, K., Hanish, D., Heckman, T., , Kennicutt, R., et al. (2019). The neutral hydrogen properties of galaxies in gas-rich groups. \mnras, 483(4), 5409-5425.
• Grasha, K., Calzetti, D., Adamo, A., Kennicutt, R., Elmegreen, B., Messa, M., Dale, D., Fedorenko, K., Mahadevan, S., Grebel, E., Fumagalli, M., Kim, H., Dobbs, C., Gouliermis, D., Ashworth, G., Gallagher, J., Smith, L., Tosi, M., Whitmore, B., , Schinnerer, E., et al. (2019). The spatial relation between young star clusters and molecular clouds in M51 with LEGUS. \mnras, 483(4), 4707-4723.
• Hannon, S., Lee, J. C., Whitmore, B. C., Chandar, R., Adamo, A., Mobasher, B., Aloisi, A., Calzetti, D., Cignoni, M., Cook, D. O., Dale, D., Deger, S., Della Bruna, L., Elmegreen, D. M., Gouliermis, D. A., Grasha, K., Grebel, E. K., Herrero, A., Hunter, D. A., , Johnson, K. E., et al. (2019). H α morphologies of star clusters: a LEGUS study of H ii region evolution time-scales and stochasticity in low-mass clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(4), 4648-4665. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2820
• Hannon, S., Lee, J. C., Whitmore, B., {Chand, a. R., Adamo, A., Mobasher, B., Aloisi, A., Calzetti, D., Cignoni, M., Cook, D., Dale, D., Deger, S., Della Bruna, L., Elmegreen, D., Gouliermis, D., Grasha, K., Grebel, E., Herrero, A., Hunter, D., , Johnson, K., et al. (2019). H \ensuremath{\alpha} morphologies of star clusters: a LEGUS study of H II region evolution time-scales and stochasticity in low-mass clusters. \mnras, 490(4), 4648-4665.
• Hunt, L., De Looze, I., Boquien, M., Nikutta, R., Rossi, A., Bianchi, S., Dale, D., Granato, G., Kennicutt, R., Silva, L., Ciesla, L., Rela{\~no}, M., Viaene, S., Brandl, B., Calzetti, D., Croxall, K., Draine, B., Galametz, M., Gordon, K., , Groves, B., et al. (2019). Comprehensive comparison of models for spectral energy distributions from 0.1 \ensuremath{\mu}m to 1 mm of nearby star-forming galaxies. \aap, 621, A51.
• Jong, R., Agertz, O., Berbel, A., Aird, J., Alexander, D., Amarsi, A., Anders, F., Andrae, R., Ansarinejad, B., Ansorge, W., Antilogus, P., {Anwand, -. H., Arentsen, A., Arnadottir, A., Asplund, M., Auger, M., Azais, N., Baade, D., Baker, G., , Baker, S., et al. (2019). 4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals. The Messenger, 175, 3-11.
• Reyes, M. A., & Kennicutt Jr., . (2019). Revisiting the Integrated Star Formation Law. I. Non-starbursting Galaxies. \apj, 872(1), 16.
• Rousseau-Nepton, L. .., Martin, R., Robert, C., Drissen, L., Amram, P., Prunet, S., Martin, T., Moumen, I., Adamo, A., Alarie, A., Barmby, P., Boselli, A., Bresolin, F., Bureau, M., Chemin, L., Fernandes, R., Combes, F., Crowder, C., Della Bruna, L., , Duarte Puertas, S., et al. (2019). SIGNALS: I. Survey description. \mnras, 489(4), 5530-5546.
• Sutter, J., Dale, D. A., Croxall, K. V., Pelligrini, E. W., Smith, J., Appleton, P. N., Beir{\~ao}, P., Bolatto, A. D., Calzetti, D., Crocker, A., De, L. I., Draine, B., Galametz, M., Groves, B. A., Helou, G., Herrera-Camus, R., Hunt, L. K., Kennicutt, R. C., Roussel, H., & Wolfire, M. G. (2019). Using [C II] 158 \ensuremath{\mu}m Emission from Isolated ISM Phases as a Star Formation Rate Indicator. \apj, 886(1), 60.
• V{\'\ilchez}, J., Rela{\~no}, M., Kennicutt, R., De Looze, I., Moll{\'a}, M., & Galametz, M. (2019). Metals and dust content across the galaxies M 101 and NGC 628. \mnras, 483(4), 4968-4983.
• Audcent-Ross, F., Meurer, G., Wong, O., Zheng, Z., Hanish, D., Zwaan, M., Bland-Hawthorn, J. .., Elagali, A., Meyer, M., Putman, M., Ryan-Weber, E., Sweet, S., Thilker, D., Seibert, M., Allen, R., Dopita, M., Doyle-Pegg, M., Drinkwater, M., Ferguson, H., , Freeman, K., et al. (2018). Near-identical star formation rate densities from H$\alpha$ and FUVat redshift zero. \mnras, 480, 119-133.
• Forrest, B., Tran, K., Broussard, A., Cohn, J., Kennicutt, R., Papovich, C., Allen, R., Cowley, M., Glazebrook, K., Kacprzak, G., Kawinwanichakij, L., Nanayakkara, T., Salmon, B., Spitler, L., & Straatman, C. (2018). ZFOURGE: Using Composite Spectral Energy Distributions to Characterize Galaxy Populations at 1\nbsp$\lt$\nbspz\nbsp$\lt$\nbsp4. \apj, 863, 131.
• Grasha, K., Calzetti, D., Bittle, L., Johnson, K., Donovan Meyer, J., Kennicutt, R., Elmegreen, B., Adamo, A., Krumholz, M., Fumagalli, M., Grebel, E., Gouliermis, D., Cook, D., Gallagher, J., Aloisi, A., Dale, D., Linden, S., Sacchi, E., Thilker, D., , Walterbos, R., et al. (2018). Connecting young star clusters to CO molecular gas in NGC 7793 with ALMA-LEGUS. \mnras, 481, 1016-1027.
• Hunter, D., Gallardo, S., Zhang, H., Adamo, A., Cook, D., Oh, S., Elmegreen, B., Kim, H., Kahre, L., Ubeda, L., Bright, S., Ryon, J., Fumagalli, M., Sacchi, E., Kennicutt, R., Tosi, M., Dale, D., Cignoni, M., Messa, M., , Grebel, E., et al. (2018). A Study of Two Dwarf Irregular Galaxies with Asymmetrical Star Formation Distributions. \apj, 855, 7.
• Kahre, L., Walterbos, R., Kim, H., Thilker, D., Calzetti, D., Lee, J., Sabbi, E., Ubeda, L., Aloisi, A., Cignoni, M., Cook, D., Dale, D., Elmegreen, B., Elmegreen, D., Fumagalli, M., Gallagher, J., Gouliermis, D., Grasha, K., Grebel, E., , Hunter, D., et al. (2018). Extinction Maps and Dust-to-gas Ratios in Nearby Galaxies with LEGUS. \apj, 855, 133.
• Murphy, E., Dong, D., Momjian, E., Linden, S., Kennicutt, R., Meier, D., Schinnerer, E., & Turner, J. (2018). The Star Formation in Radio Survey: Jansky Very Large Array 33 GHz Observations of Nearby Galaxy Nuclei and Extranuclear Star-forming Regions. \apjs, 234, 24.
• Rela{\~no}, M., De Looze, I., Kennicutt, R., Lisenfeld, U., Dariush, A., Verley, S., Braine, J., Tabatabaei, F., Kramer, C., Boquien, M., Xilouris, M., & Gratier, P. (2018). Spatially resolving the dust properties and submillimetre excess in M 33. \aap, 613, A43.
• Sabbi, E., Calzetti, D., Ubeda, L., Adamo, A., Cignoni, M., Thilker, D., Aloisi, A., Elmegreen, B., Elmegreen, D., Gouliermis, D., Grebel, E., Messa, M., Smith, L., Tosi, M., Dolphin, A., Andrews, J., Ashworth, G., Bright, S., Brown, T., , Chandar, R., et al. (2018). The Resolved Stellar Populations in the LEGUS Galaxies1. \apjs, 235, 23.
• Vílchez, J. M., Relaño, M., Kennicutt, R., De Looze, I., Mollá, M., & Galametz, M. (2018). Metals and dust content across the galaxies M 101 and NGC 628. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(4), 4968-4983. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty3455
• Hinz, J. L., Kennicutt, R. C., Galametz, M., Albrecht, M., Aniano, G., Armus, L., Bertoldi, F., Calzetti, D., Crocker, A. F., Croxall, K. V., Dale, D. A., Donovan Meyer, J., Draine, B. T., Engelbracht, C. W., Roussel, H., Skibba, R. A., Tabatabaei, F. S., Walter, F., Weiss, A., , Wilson, C. D., et al. (2012). Mapping the cold dust temperatures and masses of nearby KINGFISH galaxies withHerschel: Mapping the cold dust properties with Herschel. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425(1), 763-787. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21667.x
• Kennicutt, R. C. (1998). STAR FORMATION IN GALAXIES ALONG THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 36(1), 189-231. doi:10.1146/annurev.astro.36.1.189

Proceedings Publications

• Murphy, E., Condon, J., Alberdi, A., Barcos-Mu{\~nozarcos}, L., Beswick, R., Brinks, E., Dong, D., Evans, A., Johnson, K., Kennicutt, R., Linden, S., Muxlow, T., P{\'erez-Torres}, M., Schinnerer, E., Sargent, M., Tabatabaei, F., & Turner, J. (2018, dec). Radio Continuum Emission from Galaxies: An Accounting of Energetic Processes. In Science with a Next Generation Very Large Array, 517.
• Paz, A. G., Tremonti, C., Kennicutt, R. C., & Lee, J. C. (2011, 06). UV/Hα Turmoil. In UP: Have Observations Revealed a Variable Upper End of the Stellar Initial Mass Function?': ASP Conference Proceedings, 440, 179-187.
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  A great deal of our understanding of star formation in the local universe has been built upon an extensive foundation of Hα observational studies. However, recent work in the ultraviolet (UV) with GALEX has shown that star formation rates (SFRs) inferred from Hα in galactic environments characterized by low stellar and gas densities tend to be less than those based on the UV luminosity. The origin of the discrepancy is actively debated because one possible explanation is that the stellar initial mass function is systematically deficient in high mass stars in such environments. In this contribution, we summarize our work on this topic using a dwarf galaxy dominated sample of ~ 300 late-type galaxies in the 11 Mpc Local Volume. The sample allows us to examine the discrepancy between Hα and UV SFRs using a statistical number of galaxies with activities less than 0.1 M_⨀ yr^-1 A range of potential causes for such an effect are reviewed. We find that while the IMF hypothesis is not inconsistent with our observations, alternate explanations remain that must be investigated further before a final conclusion can be drawn.