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Statistics of Associations Among IR Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jack F. Gallimore  and
William C. Keel
Jack F. Gallimore
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama
William C. Keel
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama

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In the course of expanding the search of Kleinmann et.al. (1988) for distant, infrared-luminous objects, we noticed (as is often remarked) that a large number of infrared-selected galaxies have close neighbors or show merger characteristics (e.g. tidal tails, distorted disks). Because the sample size is large (567 infrared galaxies and 2182 field galaxies), this sample is ideal for statistically examining the importance of interactions among infrared galaxies. In particular, we compare the nearest-neighbor distribution and the two-point correlation function of our sample with that of a control sample of field galaxies.

Type
IV. Observations of Global Activity due to Interaction
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 124: Paired and Interacting Galaxies , 1990 , pp. 353 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1990

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