Comparison of the UVJ selected MS results of this work (magenta) with the observational MS from Speagle et al. (2014, FUV data in blue; IR data in green; and radio, hydrogen lines, and UV SED fitting in yellow), Schreiber et al. (2015) low mass MS (red), and the MS from the Illustris Simulation (Vogelsberger et al. 2014; Sparre et al. 2015, black diamonds). The α and β parameters from Eq. (8) are in panels a and b, respectively. As Schreiber et al. (2015) hold their low-mass slope constant at unity, this is indicated in panel a as a flat red line. The redshifts shown for this work are the mean redshift in each redshift bin, while the horizontal error bars show the width of the redshift bin. A version of this plot using SFRs derived from IR template fitting can be found in Appendix C.