3 papers
astro-ph2000
Enhanced interactions, mergers and starbursts in dense cluster environments
C. Moss
Optical and X-ray studies have established the prevalence of significant substructure in clusters of galaxies, indicating that clusters are young systems, and that recent major mer…
astro-ph2000
The Dependence of Tidally-Induced Star Formation on Cluster Density
C. Moss, M. Whittle
A survey of H alpha emission in 320 spiral galaxies in 8 nearby clusters shows an enhancement of circumnuclear starburst emission with increasingly rich clusters. These observation…
astro-ph1995
Star formation in normal and barred cluster spirals
C. Moss, M. Whittle, J. E. Pesce +1
An objective prism H alpha survey has shown that there is a population of early type spiral galaxies in nearby clusters with strong central bursts of star formation which could be…