Author : Michael J. D. Palmer
Release : 2012
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Book Synopsis Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting of the Bulge and Disk Components of Interacting Galaxies by : Michael J. D. Palmer
Download or read book Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting of the Bulge and Disk Components of Interacting Galaxies written by Michael J. D. Palmer. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We perform spectral energy distribution fitting to the total integrated light, bulge and disk components of? 650,000 spectroscopically selected galaxies from the sloan digital sky survey data release 7. Using 4-band photometry (u, g, r, i) we derive physical properties for these components with particular emphasis placed on the star formation rates (SFR) and stellar masses. Using the total integrated fits as an indicator of the goodness of fit, we show that reliable estimates of the SFR can be recovered using a specific SFR (sSFR) cut of log(sSFR /yr)??10.45. We construct a close pairs sample and match isolated controls based on stellar mass, z and local density for galaxies that pass the sSFR cut. We develop a method to cross correlate the pair galaxies' star formation rate posterior probability distribution functions (SFR PDFs) with the control SFR PDFs as a function of the pair galaxies projected separation, rp. We show that the SFR of the close pair galaxies is enhanced relative to the control sample. The SFR enhancement is at a level of? 0.25 dex above that of the control at the closest separations and declines to a plateau at? 0.15 dex for separations of 30 rp 60 kpc/h. Between 60