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We investigate the structural, kinematical, and spectrophotometric properties of ``E+A'' galaxies -- those with strong Balmer absorption lines but no significant [OII] emission -- using numerical simulations combined with stellar population…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 K. Bekki , W. J. Couch , Y. Shioya , A. Vazdekis

We have selected a sample of local E+A galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 for follow up integral field spectroscopy with the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) on the ANU 2.3-m telescope. The sample was selected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Michael B. Pracy , Matt S. Owers , Warrick J. Couch , Harald Kuntschner , Kenji Bekki , Frank Briggs , Phillip Lah , Martin Zwaan

E+A galaxies are characterized as a galaxy with strong Balmer absorption lines but without any [OII] nor H$\alpha$ emission lines. The existence of strong Balmer absorption lines indicates that E+A galaxies have experienced starburst within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomotsugu Goto

E+A galaxies are characterized as a galaxy with strong Balmer absorption lines but without any [OII] or H$\alpha$ emission lines. The existence of strong Balmer absorption lines means that E+A galaxies have experienced a starburst within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomotsugu Goto

We select E+A candidates from a spectroscopic dataset of ~800 field galaxies and measure the E+A fraction at 0.3<z<1 to be 2.7+/-1.1%, a value lower than that in galaxy clusters at comparable redshifts (11+/-3%). HST/WFPC2 imaging for five…

One important approach to the study of galaxy evolution is to identify those galaxies whose spectral and/or morphological characteristics suggest that they are in transition. For example, ``E+A'' galaxies, which have strong Balmer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ann I. Zabludoff

Post-starburst (E+A or k+a) spectra, characterized by their exceptionally strong Balmer lines in absorption and the lack of emission lines, belong to galaxies in which the star formation activity ended abruptly sometime during the past Gyr.…

We present HST/WFPC2 observations of the five bluest E+A galaxies (z~0.1) in the Zabludoff et al. sample to study whether their detailed morphologies are consistent with late-to-early type evolution and to determine what drives that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yujin Yang , Ann I. Zabludoff , Dennis Zaritsky , Tod R. Lauer , J. Christopher Mihos

(Abridged) We present near-IR photometry of a selected sample of southern hemisphere E+A galaxies. The sample includes 50 galaxies from nearby and distant clusters as well as E+A galaxies from the field. The photometry includes J, H and Ks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gaspar Galaz

Post-starburst galaxies, or E+A galaxies, are characterized by optical spectra showing strong Balmer absorption lines, indicating a young stellar population, and little or no emission lines, implying no active star formation. These galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin A. Zwaan , Harald Kuntschner , Michael B. Pracy , Warrick J. Couch

We present spatially resolved intermediate resolution spectroscopy of a sample of twelve E+A galaxies in the z=0.32 rich galaxy cluster AC 114, obtained with the FLAMES multi-integral field unit system on the European Southern Observatory's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 M. B. Pracy , W. J. Couch , C. Blake , K. Bekki , C. Harrison , M. Colless , H. Kuntschner , R. de Propris

E+A galaxies are galaxies with strong Balmer absorption lines and with no significant emission in [OII] or H$\alpha$ lines. The existence of strong Balmer absorption lines shows that these galaxies have experienced a starburst within the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomotsugu Goto , the SDSS collaboration

About 35 years ago a class of galaxies with unusually strong Balmer absorption lines and weak emission lines was discovered in distant galaxy clusters. These objects, alternatively referred to as post-starburst, E+A or k+a galaxies, are now…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 M. M. Pawlik , S. McAlpine , J. W. Trayford , V. Wild , R. Bower , R. A. Crain , M. Schaller , J. Schaye

E+A galaxies have been interpreted as post-starburst galaxies based on the presence of strong Balmer absorption lines combined with the absence of major emission lines ([OII] nor H$\alpha$). As a population of galaxies in the midst of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomotsugu Goto

We present UFTI K-band imaging observations of 222 galaxies that are selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to have unusually strong Hdelta absorption equivalent widths, W(Hd)>4A. Using GIM2D, the images are fit with two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael L. Balogh , Chris Miller , Robert Nichol , Ann Zabludoff , Tomo Goto

Strong Balmer absorption lines and the lack of Ha and [OII] emission lines signify that E+As are post-starburst systems. Recent studies suggest that E+As may undergo the transition from the `blue cloud' to the `red sequence' and eventually…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yumi Choi , Tomotsugu Goto , Suk-Jin Yoon

We assess the morphology-density relation, H-alpha linewidth-density relation, and the effects of nearby companions for 300 galaxies selected from low-density environments of the Center for Astrophysics Redshift Survey. Both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Grogin , M. J. Geller

Post-starburst, or E+A galaxies, are the best candidates for galaxies in transition from being gas-rich and star-forming to gas-poor and passively-evolving via galaxy-galaxy mergers. To determine what E+A galaxies become after their young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Yujin Yang , Ann Zabludoff , Dennis Zaritsky , Christopher Mihos

We investigated the radial colour gradient and two-dimensional (2D) colour properties of 22 E+A galaxies with 5.5 < Hdelta equivalent width(EW) < 8.5\AA and 49 normal early-type galaxies as a control sample at a redshift of <0.2 in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chisato Yamauchi , Tomotsugu Goto

We report discovery of actively star forming elliptical galaxies in a morphologically classified sample of bright galaxies at a low redshift obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The emission lines of these galaxies do not show the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masataka Fukugita , Osamu Nakamura , Edwin L. Turner , Joe Helmboldt , R. C. Nichol
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