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We investigate how the environment affects the assembly history of massive galaxies. For that purpose, we make use of SHARDS and HST spectro-photometric data, whose depth, spectral resolution, and wavelength coverage allow to perform a…

We compare environmental effects in two analogous samples of galaxies, one from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the other from a semi-analytic model (SAM) based on the Millennium Simulation (MS), to test to what extent current SAMs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas B. Cowan , Zeljko Ivezic

We examine the relationship between environment and the luminosities, surface brightnesses, colors, and profile shapes of luminous galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). For the SDSS sample, galaxy color is the galaxy property…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. R. Blanton , D. J. Eisenstein , D. W. Hogg , D. J. Schlegel , J. Brinkmann

We examine the environmental effects on the photometric properties of galaxies for the rich galaxy cluster ABCG 209 at z=0.209. We use archive CFHT optical imaging of a 42'x28' field centred on the cluster to produce a galaxy sample…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. P. Haines , A. Mercurio , P. Merluzzi , F. La Barbera , M. Massarotti , G. Busarello , M. Girardi

Satellite galaxies that are near to massive primary galaxies in close pairs can have stellar population ages that are more similar to their primaries than expected. This is one way in which close pairs of galaxies show galactic conformity,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Anne E. Sansom , Ignacio Ferreras , Benjamin F. McDonald

An analysis of more than 3000 galaxies resolved at better than 114 pc/h at z=0.62 in a LAOZI cosmological adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic simulation is performed and insights gained on star formation quenching and color migration. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Renyue Cen

This is the second paper of a series devoted to study the stellar content of early-type galaxies. The goal of the series is to set constraints on the evolutionary status of these objects. We use a new set of models which include an improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Sanchez-Blazquez , J. Gorgas , N. Cardiel , J. J. Gonzalez

We present spectroscopic linestrength data for 4097 red-sequence galaxies in 93 low-redshift galaxy clusters, and use these to investigate variations in average stellar populations as a function of galaxy mass. Our analysis includes an…

We use high signal-to-noise spectroscopy for a sample of 232 quiescent galaxies in the Shapley Supercluster, to investigate how their stellar populations depend on velocity dispersion, luminosity and stellar mass. The sample spans a large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Russell J. Smith , John R. Lucey , Michael J. Hudson

We use 80922 galaxies in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to measure the galaxy luminosity function (LF) in different environments over the redshift range 0.04<z<0.26. The depth and size of GAMA allows us to define samples split…

Although the spectrum of a prototypical early-type galaxy is assumed to lack emission lines, a substantial fraction (likely as high as 30%) of nearby red sequence galaxy spectra contain emission lines with line ratios characteristic of low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Genevieve J. Graves , Sandra M. Faber , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Renbin Yan

We analyse the B-R_c colors of galaxies as functions of luminosity and local galaxy density using a large photometric redshift catalog based on the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey. We select two samples of galaxies with a magnitude limit of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. K. C. Yee , B. C. Hsieh , Huan Lin , M. D. Gladders

We investigate the environmental dependence of galaxies with star formation from a volume-limited sample of 4782 nearby field galaxy spectra extracted from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey final data release. The environment is characterized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Abilio Mateus , Laerte Sodre

Comparisons between observational surveys and galaxy formation models find that the mass of dark matter haloes can largely explain galaxies' stellar mass. However, it remains uncertain whether additional environmental variables, generally…

Using ~5000 spectroscopically-confirmed galaxies drawn from the Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) survey we investigate the relationship between color and galaxy density for galaxy populations of…

We report the discovery of a rich component of dusty star-forming galaxies contaminating the red-sequence in the supercluster system comprising Abell 901a, 901b and A902 at redshift ~0.17. These galaxies do not fit into the colour-density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-02 C. Wolf , M. E. Gray , K. Meisenheimer

We have constructed a family of simple models for spiral galaxy evolution to allow us to investigate observational trends in star formation history with galaxy parameters. The models are used to generate broad band colours from which ages…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric F. Bell , Richard G. Bower

We use a 0.040 < z < 0.085 sample of 37866 star-forming galaxies from the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the dependence of gas-phase chemical properties on stellar mass and environment. The local density,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Mouhcine , I. K. Baldry , S. P. Bamford

We derive stellar metallicities, light-weighted ages and stellar masses for a magnitude-limited sample of 175,128 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Two (SDSS DR2). We compute median-likelihood estimates of these…