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In this paper, we introduce the Local Volume TiNy Titans sample (LV-TNT), which is a part of a larger body of work on interacting dwarf galaxies: TNT (Stierwalt et al. 2015). This LV-TNT sample consists of 10 dwarf galaxy pairs in the Local…

The dwarf galaxies comparable to the LMC and SMC, with stellar masses $7.5 <{\rm log}(M_{\ast}/M_{\odot})<9.5$, are found in a diversity of environments and have long quenching timescales. We need to understand how this phenomenon is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-25 Joy Bhattacharyya , Annika H. G. Peter , Alexie Leauthaud

Dwarf galaxies dominate the galaxy population across all redshifts, and majority of mergers are expected to occur between them. However, the impact of dwarf-dwarf mergers on star formation (SF) is less understood. In this context, we study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Rakshit Chauhan , Smitha Subramanian , Deepak A. Kudari , S. Amrutha , Mousumi Das

Interactions between pairs of isolated dwarf galaxies provide a critical window into low-mass hierarchical, gas-dominated galaxy assembly and the buildup of stellar mass in low-metallicity systems. We present the first VLT/MUSE optical IFU…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-04 G. C. Privon , S. Stierwalt , D. R. Patton , G. Besla , S. Pearson , M. Putman , K. E. Johnson , N. Kallivayalil , S. Liss

Like massive galaxies, dwarf galaxies are expected to undergo major mergers with other dwarfs. However, the end state of these mergers and the role that merging plays in regulating dwarf star formation is uncertain. Using imaging from the…

We study a sample of nearby (z~0.2) low-luminosity dwarf (10^7 MSun < M* < 10^8 MSun) galaxies which have extreme (0.1 - 3 MSun/yr) star formation rates (SFRs) for this mass regime, making them plausible analogues of dwarfs at z~5.5. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-05 S. Kaviraj , B. Bichang'a , I. Lazar , A. E. Watkins , G. Martin , R. A. Jackson

According to the $\Lambda$ cold dark matter model of galaxy formation, the hierarchical assembly process is scale-free and interactions between galaxies in all mass ranges are expected. The effects of interactions between dwarf galaxies on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Smitha Subramanian , Chayan Mondal , Venu Kalari

It has been proposed that mergers induce starbursts and lead to important morphological changes in galaxies. Most studies so far have focused on large galaxies, but dwarfs might also experience such events, since the halo mass function is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Tjitske K. Starkenburg , Amina Helmi , Laura V. Sales

Evolutionary synthesis models for Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are presented that allow to have varying proportions of young stars formed in the merger-induced starburst and of stars from the merging spirals' disks. Comparing model grids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uta Fritze - v. Alvensleben , Pierre - Alain Duc

(Abridged) We have performed a comprehensive analysis of a sample of 20 starburst galaxies, most of them classified as Wolf-Rayet galaxies. In this paper, the last of the series, we analyze the global properties of our galaxy sample using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez

We study star formation in a sample of 345 galaxies in 167 pairs and compact groups drawn from the original CfA2 Redshift Survey and from a follow-up search for companions. We construct our sample with attention to including pairs with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Deborah Freedman Woods , Margaret J. Geller , Elizabeth J. Barton

Dwarf-dwarf galaxy encounters are a key aspect of galaxy evolution as they can ignite or temporarily suppress star formation in dwarfs and can lead to dwarf mergers. However, the frequency and impact of dwarf encounters remain poorly…

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 massive star formation rate (SFR), as measured from far-IR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 Johan H. Knapen , Mauricio Cisternas , Miguel Querejeta

Interaction between galaxies play a pivotal role in their evolution. Ongoing star formation in spiral galaxies can be affected by these processes. We select a sample of interacting galaxies in field environments at various interaction…

Galaxy-galaxy interactions rearrange the baryons in galaxies and trigger substantial star formation; the aggregate effects of these interactions on the evolutionary histories of galaxies in the Universe are poorly understood. We combine B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elizabeth Barton Gillespie , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon

We investigate the clustering properties of a complete sample of 10^5 star-forming galaxies drawn from the SDSS DR4. On scales less than 100 kpc, the amplitude of the correlation function exhibits a strong dependence on the specific star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Cheng Li , Guinevere Kauffmann , Timothy Heckman , Y. P. Jing , Simon D. M. White

Evolutionary synthesis models for Tidal Dwarf Galaxies (TDGs) are presented that allow to have varying proportions of young stars formed in the merger-induced starburst and of stars from the merging spirals' disks. The specific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Fritze-v. Alvensleben , C. S. Möller , P. - A. Duc

We analyze the galaxy pairs in a volume limited sample ($M_r \leq -21$) from the SDSS to study the effects of galaxy interactions on the star formation rate and colour of galaxies in different environments. We study the star formation rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-13 Apashanka Das , Biswajit Pandey , Suman Sarkar , Arunima Dutta

Galaxy mergers and interactions are often invoked to explain enhanced star formation, black hole growth, and mass build-up of galaxies at later cosmic times, but their effect is poorly understood at high redshift ($z>2$). We use JADES data…

Galaxies in dense environments are subject to interactions and mechanisms which directly affect their evolution by lowering their gas fractions and reducing their star-forming capacity earlier than their isolated counterparts. The aim of…

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