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Isolated Galaxies versus Interacting Pairs with MaNGA

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-12-15 v1

Abstract

We present preliminary results of the spectral analysis on the radial distributions of the star formation history in both, a galaxy merger and a spiral isolated galaxy observed with MaNGA. We find that the central part of the isolated galaxy is composed by older stellar population (\sim2 Gyr) than in the outskirts (\sim7 Gyr). Also, the time-scale is gradually larger from 1 Gyr in the inner part to 3 Gyr in the outer regions of the galaxy. In the case of the merger, the stellar population in the central region is older than in the tails, presenting a longer time-scale in comparison to central part in the isolated galaxy. Our results are in agreement with a scenario where spiral galaxies are built from inside-out. In the case of the merger, we find evidence that interactions enhance star formation in the central part of the galaxy.

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@article{arxiv.1510.08179,
  title  = {Isolated Galaxies versus Interacting Pairs with MaNGA},
  author = {M. Argudo-Fernández and F. Yuan and S. Shen and J. Yin and R. Chang and S. Feng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08179},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the EWASS-2015 special session Sp3, accepted for publication in Special Issue "3D View on Interacting and Post-Interacting Galaxies from Clusters to Voids" of open access journal "Galaxies"