Erratum: “Calibrating Star Formation in WISE Using Total Infrared Luminosity” (2017, ApJ, 850, 68)

M. E. Cluver; T. H. Jarrett; D. A. Dale; J.-D. T. Smith; T. August; M. J. I. Brown

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aacaf6

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Erratum: "Calibrating Star Formation in WISE Using Total Infrared Luminosity" (2017, ApJ, 850, 68)

M. E. Cluver^1,2, T. H. Jarrett³, D. A. Dale⁴, J.-D. T. Smith⁵, T. August³, and M. J. I. Brown⁶

Published 2018 June 25 • © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 860, Number 2 Citation M. E. Cluver et al 2018 ApJ 860 177 DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/aacaf6

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¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western Cape, Robert Sobukwe Road, Bellville, South Africa; michelle.cluver@gmail.com

² Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy, South Africa

³ Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

⁴ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA

⁵ Ritter Astrophysical Observatory, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA

⁶ School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia

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T. H. Jarrett https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4939-734X

D. A. Dale https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5782-9093

J.-D. T. Smith https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1545-5078

M. J. I. Brown https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-9137

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Received 2018 May 30
Accepted 2018 June 4
Published 2018 June 25

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Equation (1) in the published article incorrectly referred to L_{23 μm} instead of L_{12 μm} and contained a sign error for the last term. As reflected in Figure 3, it should read:

$\begin{eqnarray}&&\mathrm{log}{L}_{\mathrm{TIR}}({L}_{\odot })({M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1})\,=\,(0.889\pm 0.018)\mathrm{log}\,{L}_{12\mu {\rm{m}}}({L}_{\odot })+(2.21\pm 0.15).\end{eqnarray} \tag{ 1 }$

Equation (2) contains a sign error for the last term and, as shown in Figure 4, should read:

$\begin{eqnarray}&&\mathrm{log}{L}_{\mathrm{TIR}}({L}_{\odot })({M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1})\,=\,(0.915\pm 0.023)\mathrm{log}{L}_{23\mu {\rm{m}}}({L}_{\odot })+(1.96\pm 0.20).\end{eqnarray} \tag{ 2 }$

Equation (8) contains a sign error for the last term and should read:

$\begin{eqnarray}&&{\mathrm{SFR}}_{{\rm{W}}4}\ ({M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1})\,=\,(0.966\pm 0.032){\mathrm{SFR}}_{{\rm{W}}3}\ ({M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1})+(0.01\pm 0.03),\end{eqnarray} \tag{ 8 }$

as reflected in Figure 7.

The fit given by Equation (11) is incorrect and should read:

$\begin{eqnarray}&&\mathrm{SFR}(L({\rm{H}}{\alpha }_{\mathrm{obs}})+0.02\,\ast \,{L}_{24\mu {\rm{m}}})({M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1})\,=\,(0.776\pm 0.041){\mathrm{SFR}}_{12\mu {\rm{m}}}({M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1})-(0.30\pm 0.04),\end{eqnarray} \tag{ 11 }$

with a 1σ scatter of 0.23 dex. A replacement Figure 10(b) reflecting the updated relation is included; the figure caption remains unchanged.

We thank Sarah Leslie for bringing the errors in Equations (1) and (2) to our attention.