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Nov 1999
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Thesis (PhD). YALE UNIVERSITY, Source DAI-B 60/05, p. 2174, Nov 1999, 129 pages.
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Stellar Formation, Galactic Morphology, Interacting Galaxies
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I will present the result of the evaluation of the environmental influences on three important galactic properties; morphology, star formation rate, and interaction in the local universe. I have used a very large and homogeneous sample of 15749 galaxies drawn from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (Shectman et al. 1996). This data set consists of galaxies inhabiting the entire range of galactic environments, from the sparsest field to the densest clusters, thus allowing me to study environmental variations without combing multiple data sets with inhomogeneous characteristics. Furthermore, I can also extend the research to a ``general'' environmental investigation by, for the first time, decoupling the very local environment, as characterized by local galaxy density, from the effects of larger-scale environments, such as membership in a cluster. The star formation rate is characterized by the strength of EW(OII), while the galactic morphology is characterized by the automatically-measured concentration index (e.g. Okamura, Kodaira, & Watanabe 1984), which is more closely related to the bulge-to-disk ratio of galaxies than Hubble type, and is therefore expected to behave more independently on star formation activity in a galaxy. On the other hand, the first systematic quantitative investigation of the environmental influence on the interaction of galaxies is made by using two automatically-determined objective measures; the asymmetry index and existence of companions. The principal conclusions of this work are: (1)The concentration of the galactic light profile (characterized by the concentration index) is predominantly correlated with the relatively small-scale environment which is characterized by the local galaxy density. (2)The star formation rate of galaxies (characterized by the EW(OII)) is correlated both with the small-scale environment (the local galaxy density) and the larger scale environment which is characterized by the cluster membership. For weakly star forming galaxies, the star formation rate is correlated both with the local galaxy density and rich cluster membership. It also shows a correlation with poor cluster membership. For strongly star forming galaxies, the star formation rate is correlated with the local density and the poor cluster membership. (3)Interacting galaxies (characterized by the asymmetry index and/or the existence of apparent companions) show no correlation with rich cluster membership, but show a fair to strong correlation with the poor cluster membership.
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