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Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - VIII: The observational properties of post-merger galaxies
Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel, David R. Patton +1
In order to investigate the effects of galaxy mergers throughout the interaction sequence, we present a study of 10,800 galaxies in close pairs and a smaller sample of 97 post-merg…
Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - VI. The orbital extent of enhanced star formation in interacting galaxies
David R. Patton, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison +2
We use pair and environmental classifications of ~ 211,000 star-forming galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, along with a suite of merger simulations, to investigate the enh…
Galaxy pairs in the Sloan digital sky survey - VII: The merger -- luminous infra-red galaxy connection
Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel, Jillian M. Scudder +2
We use a sample of 9397 low z galaxies with a close companion to investigate the connection between mergers and luminous infra-red (IR) galaxies (LIRGs). The pairs are selected fro…
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - V. Tracing changes in star formation rate and metallicity out to separations of 80 kpc
Jillian M. Scudder, Sara L. Ellison, Paul Torrey +2
We present a sample of 1899 galaxies with a close companion taken from the SDSS DR7. The galaxy pairs are selected to have velocity differences < 300 km/s, projected separations (r…
The dependence of galaxy group star formation rates and metallicities on large scale environment
Jillian M. Scudder, Sara L. Ellison, J. Trevor Mendel
We construct a sample of 75,863 star forming galaxies with robust metallicity and star formation rate measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), from…
Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey - IV: Interactions trigger AGN
Sara L. Ellison, David R. Patton, J. Trevor Mendel +1
Galaxy-galaxy interactions are predicted to cause gas inflows leading to enhanced nuclear star formation. In this paper we test the further prediction that the gas inflows lead to…