The slowly evolving role of environment in a spectroscopic survey of
  star formation in Mstar > 5E8 Msun galaxies since z=1
  We present a deep [OII] emission line survey of faint galaxies (22.5<KAB<24)
in the Chandra Deep Field South and the FIRES field. With these data we measure
the star formation rate (SFR) in galaxies in the stellar mass range 8.85 <
log(M*/Msun) < 9.5 at 0.62<z<0.885, to a limit of SFR = 0.1Msun/yr. The
presence of a massive cluster (MS1054-03) in the FIRES field, and of
significant large scale structure in the CDFS field, allows us to study the
environmental dependence of SFRs amongst this population of low-mass galaxies.
Comparing our results with more massive galaxies at this epoch, with our
previous survey (ROLES) at the higher redshift z=1, and with SDSS Stripe 82
data, we find no significant evolution of the stellar mass function of
star-forming galaxies between z=0 and z=1, and no evidence that its shape
depends on environment. The correlation between specific star formation rate
(sSFR) and stellar mass at z=0.75 has a power-law slope of beta=-0.2, with
evidence for a steeper relation at the lowest masses. The normalization of this
correlation lies as expected between that corresponding to z=1 and the present
day. The global SFR density is consistent with an evolution of the form (1+z)^2
over 0<z<1, with no evidence for a dependence on stellar mass. The sSFR of
these star-forming galaxies at z=0.75 does not depend upon the density of their
local environment. Considering just high-density environments, the low-mass end
of the sSFR-M* relation in our data is steeper than that in Stripe 82 at z=0,
and shallower than that measured by ROLES at z=1. Evolution of low-mass
galaxies in dense environments appears to be more rapid than in the general
field.
