Remnants of recent mergers in nearby early-type galaxies and their classification

G Giri, S Barway, S Raychaudhury - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We search for signatures of recent galaxy close interactions and mergers in a sample of 202
early-type galaxies in the local universe from the public SDSS Stripe82 deep images (μ r∼ …

New criteria for the selection of galaxy close pairs from cosmological simulations: evolution of the major and minor merger fraction in MUSE deep fields

E Ventou, T Contini, N Bouché, B Epinat… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
It remains a challenge to assess the merger fraction of galaxies at different cosmic epochs in
order to probe the evolution of their mass assembly. Using the ILLUSTRIS cosmological …

Galaxy interactions-II. High density environments

S Alonso, V Mesa, N Padilla, DG Lambas - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012 - aanda.org
Aims. To assess the role of dense environments in galaxy interactions, we present an
analysis of close galaxy pairs in groups and clusters, obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky …