Radio continuum (RC) emission in galaxies allows us to measure star formation rates (SFRs) unaffected by extinction due to dust, of which the low-frequency part is uncontaminated from thermal (free-free) emission. We calibrate the conversion from the spatially resolved 140MHz RC emission to the SFR surface density (SFR) at 1kpc scale. Radio spectral indices give us, by means of spectral ageing, a handle on the transport of cosmic rays using the electrons as a proxy for GeV nuclei. We used recent observations of three galaxies (NGC 3184, 4736, and 5055) from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS), and archival LOw Frequency ARay (LOFAR) data of NGC 5194. Maps were created with the facet calibration technique and converted to radio {Sigma}SFR maps using the Condon relation. We compared these maps with hybrid {Sigma}SFR maps from a combination of GALEX far-ultraviolet and Spitzer 24um data using plots tracing the relation at the highest angular resolution allowed by our data at 1.2x1.2-kpc^2^ resolution.

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