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Photometric Properties of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Data Release
arXiv.org
08 May 2012
Abstract
Using the sample presented in Pan:2011, we analyse the photometric properties
of 88,794 void galaxies and compare them to galaxies in higher density
environments with the same absolute magnitude distribution. In Pan et al.
(2011), we found a total of 1054 dynamically distinct voids in the SDSS with
radius larger than 10h^-1 Mpc. The voids are underdense, with delta rho/rho <
-0.9 in their centers. Here we study the photometric properties of these void
galaxies. We look at the u - r colours as an indication of star formation
activity and the inverse concentration index as an indication of galaxy type.
We find that void galaxies are statistically bluer than galaxies found in
higher density environments with the same magnitude distribution. We examine
the colours of the galaxies as a function of magnitude, and we fit each colour
distribution with a double-Gaussian model for the red and blue subpopulations.
As we move from bright to dwarf galaxies, the population of red galaxies
steadily decreases and the fraction of blue galaxies increases in both voids
and walls, however the fraction of blue galaxies in the voids is always higher
and bluer than in the walls. We also split the void and wall galaxies into
samples depending on galaxy type. We find that late type void galaxies are
bluer than late type wall galaxies and the same holds for early galaxies. We
also find that early type, dwarf void galaxies are blue in colour. We also
study the properties of void galaxies as a function of their distance from the
center of the void. We find very little variation in the properties, such as
magnitude, colour and type, of void galaxies as a function of their location in
the void. The only exception is that the dwarf void galaxies may live closer to
the center. The centers of voids have very similar density contrast and hence
all void galaxies live in very similar density environments (ABRIDGED)
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Details
- Title
- Photometric Properties of Void Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Data Release
- Creators
- Fiona HoyleMichael S VogeleyDanny Pan
- Publication Details
- arXiv.org
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Other Identifier
- 991021864948404721