Constraints on Bars in the Local Universe from 5000 SDSS Galaxies

Details Constraints on Bars in the Local Universe from 5000 SDSS Galaxies Constraints on Bars in the Local Universe from 5000 SDSS Galaxies

2006-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610561v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

1 page, Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 235, 2006, "Galaxy Evolution across the Hubble Time", F. Combes & J. Palous, eds

Scientific paper

10.1017/S1743921306005138

We present the first study of bars in the local Universe, based on the Sloan Digitized Sky Survey (SDSS). The large sample of ~5000 local galaxies provides the largest study to date of local bars and minimizes the effect of cosmic variance. The sample galaxies have M_g<=-18.5 mag and cover the redshift range 0.01<=z<0.04. We use a color cut in the color-magnitude diagram and the Sersic index n to identify disk galaxies. We characterize bars and disks using r-band images and the method of iterative ellipse fits and quantitative criteria developed in Jogee at al. (2004, ApJL, 615, L105). After excluding highly inclined (i>60 degrees) systems our results are: (1) the optical (r-band) fraction of barred galaxies among local disk galaxies is 43%, which confirms the ubiquity of local bars, in agreement with other optical studies based on smaller samples (e.g.Eskridge et al. 2000, AJ, 119, 536, Marinova & Jogee 2006, astro-ph/0608039); (2) the optical bar fraction rises for bluer galaxies, suggesting a relation between bars and star formation; (3) preliminary analyzes suggest that the optical bar fraction increases steeply with the galaxy effective radius; (4) the optical bar fraction at z~0 is ~35% for bright disks (M_g<=-19.3 mag) and strong (bar ellipticity >0.4), large-scale (bar semi-major axis >1.5 kpc) bars, which is comparable to the value of 30+/-6% reported earlier (Jogee et al. 2004) for similar disks and bars at z~0.2-1.0.

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