We study a hundred of galaxies from the spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with individual detections in the far-infrared Herschel Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer bands (100 or 160um) and in the GALEX far-ultraviolet band up to z~0.4 in the COSMOS and Lockman Hole fields. The galaxies are divided into four spectral and four morphological types. For the star-forming and unclassifiable galaxies, we calculate dust extinctions from the ultraviolet (UV) slope, the H{alpha}/H{beta} ratio and the L_IR_/L_UV_ ratio. There is a tight correlation between the dust extinction and both L_IR_ and metallicity. We calculate SFRtotal and compare it with other star formation rate (SFR) estimates (H{alpha}, UV, SDSS) finding very good agreement between them with smaller dispersions than typical SFR uncertainties. We study the effect of mass and metallicity, finding that it is only significant at high masses for SFRH{alpha}. For the AGN and composite galaxies, we find a tight correlation between SFR and L_IR_({sigma}~0.29), while the dispersion in the SFR-L_UV_ relation is larger ({sigma}~0.57). The galaxies follow the prescriptions of the Fundamental Plane in the M-Z-SFR space.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/441/2/tabled (Properties of SDSS-DR7/POP galaxies)