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The Star Formation Rate (SFR) is a crucial ingredient to understand the star formation history of the galaxies at all redshifts. This SFR is currently derived from the Hα line and the far-UV continuum luminosities since both are directly linked to the young stars but the main difficulty is the uncertainty on the dust extinction and both tracers must be corrected before any quantitative study.
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Buat, V. (2002). Star Formation and Dust Extinction in Nearby Star Forming and Starburst Galaxies. In: Sauvage, M., Stazińska, G., Schaerer, D. (eds) The Evolution of Galaxies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3311-3_20
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