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The Environments of Luminous IR Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Abiy G. Tekola ,
Petri Väisänen  and
Andreas Berlind
Abiy G. Tekola
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, P.O.Box 9, Observatory 7935, Cape Town, South Africa, email: abiy@saao.ac.za, petri@saao.ac.za Astronomy Department, and Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre (ACGC), University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, South Africa
Petri Väisänen
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, and Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre (ACGC), University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, South Africa
Andreas Berlind
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1807 Station B, Nashville, TN 37235, USA email: a.berlind@vanderbilt.edu
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Abstract

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We have studied the star formation vs. environment connection of local LIRGs by characterising their environment using number densities of galaxies as well as halo masses. It is found that LIRGs preferentially live in group environments and that they also exhibit a relation where their star formation rate increases with their environmental density.

Keywords

galaxies: evolutiongalaxies: starburst
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S277: Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (on the land of our ancestors) , December 2010 , pp. 17 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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