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Evidence for Merger-Driven Growth in Luminous, High-z, Obscured AGN in the CANDELS/COSMOS Field
J. L. Donley, J. Kartaltepe, D. Kocevski +27
While major mergers have long been proposed as a driver of both AGN activity and the M-sigma relation, studies of moderate to high redshift Seyfert-luminosity AGN hosts have found…
Stellar Disc Truncations and Extended Haloes in Face-on Spiral Galaxies
S. P. C. Peters, P. C. van der Kruit, J. H. Knapen +4
We use data from the IAC Stripe82 Legacy Project to study the surface photometry of 22 nearby, face-on to moderately inclined spiral galaxies. The reprocessed and combined Stripe 8…
Do the Most Massive Black Holes at Grow via Major Mergers?
M. Mechtley, K. Jahnke, R. A. Windhorst +11
The most frequently proposed model for the origin of quasars holds that the high accretion rates seen in luminous active galactic nuclei are primarily triggered during major merger…
Interacting galaxies in the nearby Universe: only moderate increase of star formation
Johan H. Knapen, Mauricio Cisternas, Miguel Querejeta
We investigate the influence of interactions on the star formation by studying a sample of almost 1500 of the nearest galaxies, all within a distance of ~45 Mpc. We define the mass…
The Odd Offset between the Galactic Disk and Its Bar in NGC 3906
Bonita de Swardt, Kartik Sheth, Taehyun Kim +27
We use mid-infrared 3.6 and 4.5microns imaging of NGC 3906 from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) to understand the nature of an unusual offset between its…
Starbursts are preferentially interacting: confirmation from the nearest galaxies
Johan H. Knapen, Mauricio Cisternas
We complement a recent ApJ Letter by Luo et al. by comparing the fraction of starburst galaxies which are interacting with the overall fraction of interacting galaxies in the nearb…