The environmental dependence of the fractions of red star-forming and blue passive galaxies

Details The environmental dependence of the fractions of red star-forming and blue passive galaxies The environmental dependence of the fractions of red star-forming and blue passive galaxies

Aug 2011

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Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.332, Issue 7, p.706

Statistics

Galaxies: Fundamental Parameters, Galaxies: Statistics

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Using two volume-limited Main galaxy samples of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 (SDSS DR6) with the luminosity -20.0 ≤ Mr ≤ -18.5 and -22.40 ≤ Mr ≤ -20.16, we have explored the environmental dependence of the fractions of red star-forming and blue passive galaxies. It is found that the fractions of red star-forming and blue passive galaxies decline mildly with increasing local density in the luminous volume-limited sample, but in the faint volume-limited sample these fractions rise slightly with increasing local density except that the fraction of red star-forming decreases with density in the densest regime. Only according to statistical results of this study, it is difficult to reach the conclusion: there is an environmental dependence for color beyond that for star formation activities or for star formation activities beyond that for color. In this condition, we preferentially believe that star formation activities and color possiblely have equally strong environmental dependence. In the faint volume-limited sample, we observe that the fraction of star-forming galaxies-the density relation has a ``critical density'' at the projected local density PLD ≈ 1 h-2 Mpc-2: below this density the fraction of star-forming galaxies is high and nearly constant, while above this density this fraction drops rapidly. Thus, it is possible that in the densest regime of the faint volume-limited sample, there is an environmental dependence for star formation activities beyond that for color, which leads to the fraction of red star-forming decreasing with density in the densest regime of the faint volume-limited sample.

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