Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 - I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis

We identify isolated galaxy triplets in a volume-limited sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10. Our final sample has 80 galaxy systems in the redshift range 0.04 ≤ z ≤ 0.1, brighter than Mr = -20.5 + 5 log h70. Spectral synthesis results and WHAN and BPT diagnostic diagrams were e...

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Publicado: 2016
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Galaxies: active
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: statistics
Galaxies: stellar content
Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00358711_v459_n3_p2539_CostaDuarte
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spelling paper:paper_00358711_v459_n3_p2539_CostaDuarte2023-06-08T15:01:42Z Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 - I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis Galaxies: active Galaxies: evolution Galaxies: statistics Galaxies: stellar content We identify isolated galaxy triplets in a volume-limited sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10. Our final sample has 80 galaxy systems in the redshift range 0.04 ≤ z ≤ 0.1, brighter than Mr = -20.5 + 5 log h70. Spectral synthesis results and WHAN and BPT diagnostic diagrams were employed to classify the galaxies in these systems as star-forming, active nuclei, or passive/retired. Our results suggest that the brightest galaxies drive the triplet evolution, as evidenced by the strong correlations between properties as mass assembly and mean stellar population age with triplet properties. Galaxies with intermediate luminosity or the faintest one within the triplet seem to play a secondary role. Moreover, the relation between age and stellar mass of galaxies is similar for these galaxies but different for the brightest galaxy in the system. Most of the triplet galaxies are passive or retired, according to the WHAN classification. Low-mass triplets present different fractions of WHAN classes when compared to higher mass triplets. A census of WHAN class combinations shows the dominance of star-forming galaxies in low-mass triplets while retired and passive galaxies prevail in high-mass systems. We argue that these results suggest that the local environment, through galaxy interactions driven by the brightest galaxy, is playing a major role in triplet evolution. © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2016 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00358711_v459_n3_p2539_CostaDuarte http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00358711_v459_n3_p2539_CostaDuarte
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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collection Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA)
topic Galaxies: active
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: statistics
Galaxies: stellar content
spellingShingle Galaxies: active
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: statistics
Galaxies: stellar content
Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 - I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis
topic_facet Galaxies: active
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: statistics
Galaxies: stellar content
description We identify isolated galaxy triplets in a volume-limited sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10. Our final sample has 80 galaxy systems in the redshift range 0.04 ≤ z ≤ 0.1, brighter than Mr = -20.5 + 5 log h70. Spectral synthesis results and WHAN and BPT diagnostic diagrams were employed to classify the galaxies in these systems as star-forming, active nuclei, or passive/retired. Our results suggest that the brightest galaxies drive the triplet evolution, as evidenced by the strong correlations between properties as mass assembly and mean stellar population age with triplet properties. Galaxies with intermediate luminosity or the faintest one within the triplet seem to play a secondary role. Moreover, the relation between age and stellar mass of galaxies is similar for these galaxies but different for the brightest galaxy in the system. Most of the triplet galaxies are passive or retired, according to the WHAN classification. Low-mass triplets present different fractions of WHAN classes when compared to higher mass triplets. A census of WHAN class combinations shows the dominance of star-forming galaxies in low-mass triplets while retired and passive galaxies prevail in high-mass systems. We argue that these results suggest that the local environment, through galaxy interactions driven by the brightest galaxy, is playing a major role in triplet evolution. © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
title Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 - I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis
title_short Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 - I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis
title_full Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 - I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis
title_fullStr Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 - I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis
title_full_unstemmed Dissecting galaxy triplets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 - I. Stellar populations and emission line analysis
title_sort dissecting galaxy triplets in the sloan digital sky survey data release 10 - i. stellar populations and emission line analysis
publishDate 2016
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00358711_v459_n3_p2539_CostaDuarte
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00358711_v459_n3_p2539_CostaDuarte
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