Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey–IV. Interactions trigger active galactic nuclei

SL Ellison, DR Patton, JT Mendel… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Galaxy–galaxy interactions are predicted to cause gas inflows leading to enhanced nuclear
star formation. This prediction is borne out observationally, and is also supported by the gas …

A catalog of bulge, disk, and total stellar mass estimates for the sloan digital sky survey

JT Mendel, L Simard, M Palmer… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of bulge, disk, and total stellar mass estimates for∼ 660,000 galaxies
in the Legacy area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data (SDSS) Release 7. These masses …

Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey–VIII. The observational properties of post-merger galaxies

SL Ellison, JT Mendel, DR Patton… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In order to investigate the effects of galaxy mergers throughout the interaction sequence, we
present a study of 10 800 galaxies in close pairs and a smaller sample of 97 post-mergers …

Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey – IX. Merger-induced AGN activity as traced by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

S Satyapal, SL Ellison, W McAlpine… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Interactions between galaxies are predicted to cause gas inflows that can potentially trigger
nuclear activity. Since the inflowing material can obscure the central regions of interacting …

The role of dwarf galaxy interactions in shaping the Magellanic System and implications for Magellanic Irregulars

G Besla, N Kallivayalil, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We present a novel pair of numerical models of the interaction history between the Large
and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC, respectively) and our Milky Way (MW) in light …

Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey—V. Tracing changes in star formation rate and metallicity out to separations of 80 kpc

JM Scudder, SL Ellison, P Torrey… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We present a sample of 1899 galaxies with a close companion taken from the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey Data Release 7. The galaxy pairs are selected to have velocity differences Δ v< …

Deep learning predictions of galaxy merger stage and the importance of observational realism

C Bottrell, MH Hani, H Teimoorinia… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Machine learning is becoming a popular tool to quantify galaxy morphologies and identify
mergers. However, this technique relies on using an appropriate set of training data to be …

Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey–VI. The orbital extent of enhanced star formation in interacting galaxies

DR Patton, P Torrey, SL Ellison… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We use pair and environmental classifications of∼ 211 000 star-forming galaxies from the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey, along with a suite of merger simulations, to investigate the …

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE)-I. Introduction to the survey

A Boselli, M Fossati, L Ferrarese, S Boissier… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
The Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) is a blind narrow-
band (NB) Hα+[NII] imaging survey carried out with MegaCam at the Canada–France …

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): environmental quenching of centrals and satellites in groups

LJM Davies, ASG Robotham, CP Lagos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Recently a number of studies have found a similarity between the passive fraction of central
and satellite galaxies when controlled for both stellar and halo mass. These results suggest …