What shapes a galaxy?–unraveling the role of mass, environment, and star formation in forming galactic structure

AFL Bluck, C Bottrell, H Teimoorinia… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the dependence of galaxy structure on a variety of galactic and
environmental parameters for∼ 500 000 galaxies at z< 0.2, taken from the Sloan Digital Sky …

The dependence of galaxy morphology and structure on environment and stellar mass

A van der Wel - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5), we extract a
sample of 4594 galaxies at redshifts 0.02< z< 0.03, complete down to a stellar mass of M …

Morphology and star formation in IllustrisTNG: the build-up of spheroids and discs

S Tacchella, B Diemer, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Using the IllustrisTNG simulations, we investigate the connection between galaxy
morphology and star formation in central galaxies with stellar masses in the range 109 …

Galaxy star formation as a function of environment in the early data release of the sloan digital sky survey

PL Gomez, RC Nichol, CJ Miller… - The Astrophysical …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We present in this paper a detailed analysis of the effect of environment on the star formation
activity of galaxies within the Early Data Release (EDR) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey …

Environmental dependence of properties of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

C Park, YY Choi, MS Vogeley, JR Gott III… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the dependence of physical properties of galaxies brighter than M r=-18.0+ 5
log h in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) on environment, as measured by local density …

Disentangling morphology, star formation, stellar mass, and environment in galaxy evolution

D Christlein, AI Zabludoff - The Astrophysical Journal, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a study of the spectroscopic and photometric properties of galaxies in six nearby
clusters. We perform a partial correlation analysis on our data set to investigate whether the …

The role of environment on the formation of early-type galaxies

B Rogers, I Ferreras, A Pasquali… - Monthly Notices of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The effect of environment on galaxy formation poses one of the best constraints on the
interplay between mass assembly and star formation in galaxies. We present here a detailed …

The Evolutionary Pathways of Disk-, Bulge-, and Halo-dominated Galaxies

M Du, LC Ho, VP Debattista, A Pillepich… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
To break the degeneracy among galactic stellar components, we extract kinematic structures
using the framework that was described in Du et al. For example, the concept of stellar halos …

On the dependence of galaxy morphologies on galaxy mergers

F Fontanot, AV Macciò, M Hirschmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The distribution of galaxy morphological types is a key test for models of galaxy formation
and evolution, providing strong constraints on the relative contribution of different physical …

Modelling galaxy clustering in a high-resolution simulation of structure formation

L Wang, C Li, G Kauffmann… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We use the Millennium Simulation, a 10 billion particle simulation of the growth of
cosmic structure, to construct a new model of galaxy clustering. We adopt a methodology …