The Void Galaxy Survey
Abstract
The Void Galaxy Survey (VGS) is a multi-wavelength program to study 60 void galaxies. Each has been selected from the deepest interior regions of identified voids in the SDSS redshift survey on the basis of a unique geometric technique, with no a prior selection of intrinsic properties of the void galaxies. The project intends to study in detail the gas content, star formation history and stellar content, as well as kinematics and dynamics of void galaxies and their companions in a broad sample of void environments. It involves the HI imaging of the gas distribution in each of the VGS galaxies. Amongst its most tantalizing findings is the possible evidence for cold gas accretion in some of the most interesting objects, amongst which are a polar ring galaxy and a filamentary configuration of void galaxies. Here we shortly describe the scope of the VGS and the results of the full analysis of the pilot sample of 15 void galaxies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1101.4187,
title = {The Void Galaxy Survey},
author = {R. van de Weygaert and K. Kreckel and E. Platen and B. Beygu and J. H. van Gorkom and J. M. van der Hulst and M. A. Aragon-Calvo and P. J. E. Peebles and T. Jarrett and G. Rhee and K. Kovac and C. -W. Yip},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.4187},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 6 figures. This is an extended version of a paper to appear in "Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later", Proceedings of Symposium 2 of JENAM 2010, eds. I. Ferreras, A. Pasquali, ASSP, Springer. Version with highres figures at http://www.astro.rug.nl/~weygaert/vgs_jenam_weygaert.col.pdf