Stellar mass vs SFR: the galaxy MS. Upper panel: 96 LAEs in our final sample plotted on the star-forming MS, together with the best fits to the data of P23, S14 and the best fit to the LAEs following Eq. (1). LAEs are colour-coded by as ‘Time’, in Gyr, which is the age of the Universe at the observed redshift. The purple, dotted line indicates the lowest-stellar mass limit of S14’s review (2 × 10⁷ M_⊙) and the green, dotted line indicates the lowest-stellar mass limit of P23’s review (6 × 10⁹ M_⊙). The pink shaded area denotes the ±1σ area for the best-fit MS relation at the sample mean age, ∼1.48 Gyr. The mean error bars in three mass bins (10⁶ < M/M_⊙ < 2.5 × 10⁷, 2.5 × 10⁷ < M_⋆/M_⊙ < 5 × 10⁸ and 5 × 10⁸ < M_⋆/M_⊙ < 10¹⁰) are shown in black at the bottom of the plot. Lower: same LAEs and best-fit relation, but compared this time to the results in the same mass range that have been UV-selected, namely: the LBGs from A2744 from Goovaerts et al. (2023) as grey diamonds, with a blue best-fit relation, and the mass-binned results from S17 as coloured diamonds with error bars.