Less than 10 percent of star formation in z ∼ 0.6 massive galaxies is triggered by major interactions

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 704, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 324-340

  Robaina, Aday R ^a   Bell, Eric F ^a   Skelton, Rosalind E ^a   McIntosh, Daniel H ^b,c   Somerville, Rachel S ^d   Zheng, Xianzhong ^e   Rix, Hans Walter ^a   Bacon, David ^f   Balogh, Michael ^g   Barazza, Fabio D ^h   Barden, Marco ⁱ   Böhm, Asmus ^j   Caldwell, John A R ^k   Gallazzi, Anna ^a   Gray, Meghan E ^l   Häussler, Boris ^l   Heymans, Catherine ^m   Jahnke, Knud ^a   Jogee, Shardha ⁿ   Van Kampen, Eelco ^i,o   Lane, Kyle ^l   Meisenheimer, Klaus ^a   Papovich, Casey ^p   Peng, Chien Y ^q   Sánchez, Sebastián F ^r   Skibba, Ramin ^a   Taylor, Andy ^s   Wisotzki, Lutz ^j   Wolf, Christian ^t   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^d AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^h EPFL   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^j ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^o EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^q NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^r Centro Hispano Aleman de Calar Alto   (Spain)

^s UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Galaxies: Evolution; Galaxies: General; Galaxies: Interactions; Galaxies: Starburst; Galaxies: Statistics; Infrared: Galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449805769     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/704/1/324     Document Type: Article

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