AGN spiral galaxies in groups: effects of bars

Abstract

We explore properties of barred active spiral galaxies in groups selected from the SDSS-DR7, with the aim of assessing the effects of bars on AGN and the role of the high density environment. We identified barred active galaxies that reside in groups from SDSS-DR7 group catalog. To provide a suitable quantification of the effects of bars, a reliable control sample of unbarred active galaxies in high density environments with similar redshift, magnitude, morphology, and bulge size distributions was constructed. We found that the fraction of barred AGN galaxies in groups (~ 38 %) is higher than those in the total barred AGN sample ( ~ 28 %), indicating that AGN spiral galaxies in groups are more likely to be barred than those in the field. We also found that barred AGN galaxies are more concentrated towards the group centers than the other unbarred AGN group members. In addition, barred AGN host galaxies show an excess of population dominated by red colors suggesting that bars produce an importanteffect on galaxy colors of AGN hosts. The host groups of the barred AGN exhibit a larger fraction of red colors than the host groups of the corresponding unbarred active galaxies. Color-magnitude relations of both host groups of AGN differ significantly: the host group colors of barred active galaxies display distributions spreading toward red populations, with respect to the host groups of the unbarred AGN objects. Barred active galaxies show an excess of nuclear activity compared to galaxies without bars. We found that barred active galaxies located farther from the group-center have stronger Lum[OIII]. Our findings suggest that the efficiency of bars to transport material towards the more central regions of the AGN galaxies in high density environments reveals an important dependence on the localization of objects within the group and on the host group colors.

10 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for Astronomy & Astrophysics

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