Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-01-22
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 1081
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08002.x
We analyse the effects of galaxy interactions on star formation in groups and clusters of galaxies with virial masses in the range $10^{13} - 10 ^{15} M_{\odot}$. We find a trend for galaxy-galaxy interactions to be less efficient in triggering star formation in high density regions in comparison with galaxies with no close companion. However, we obtain the same relative projected distance and relative radial velocity thresholds for the triggering of significant star formation activity ($r_p \sim 25 h^{-1} $ kpc and $\Delta V \sim 100 {\rm km s^{-1}}$) as found in the field. Thus, the nature of star formation driven by galaxy interactions is nearly independent of environment, although there is a general lower level of star formation activity in massive systems. The above results reflect, on one hand, the local nature of star formation induced by tidal interactions and, on the other, the role played by the internal properties of galaxies. By using a 2dFGRS mock catalog we estimate the contamination by spurious pairs finding that the statistics are cleary dominated by real pairs. We also found the behaviour of the trends to be robust against the use of more restrictive relative velocity thresholds.(Abridged)
Alonso Sol M.
Coldwell Georgina
Lambas Diego G.
Tissera Patricia Beatriz
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