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Dec 2007
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #20.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.771
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We use the photometric information contained in individual pixels of 44,964 (0.019 < z < 0.125 and -23.5 < Mr < -20.5) galaxies in the Fourth Data Release (DR4) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to investigate the effects of environment on galaxy star formation (SF). We use the pixel-z technique, which combines stellar population synthesis models with photometric redshift template fitting on the scale of individual pixels in galaxy images. Spectral energy distributions are constructed, sampling a wide range of properties such as age, star formation rate (SFR), dust obscuration and metallicity. By summing the SFRs in the pixels, we demonstrate that the distribution of total galaxy SFR shifts to lower values as the local density of surrounding galaxies increases, as found in other studies. The effect is most prominent in the galaxies with the highest star formation, and we see the break in the SFR-density relation at a local galaxy density of 0.05 (Mpc/h)-3. Since our method allows us to spatially resolve the SF distribution within galaxies, we can calculate the mean SFR of each galaxy as a function of radius. We find that on average, the mean SFR is dominated by SF in the central regions of galaxies, and that the trend for suppression of SFR in high density environments is driven by a reduction in this nuclear SF. We also find that the mean SFR in the outskirts is largely independent of environmental effects. This trend in the mean SFR is shared by galaxies which are highly star forming, while those which are weakly star forming show no statistically significant correlation between their environment and the mean SFR at any radius.
The authors acknowledge partial support from NSF grant ITR- 0312498 and NASA AIRSP award NNG06GH97G.
Connolly Andrew J.
Hopkins Andrew M.
Scranton Ryan
Welikala Niraj
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