Galaxy Interactions and their Role at Moderate Environments

Perez, J.; Tissera, P.; Padilla, N.; Alonso, S.; Lambas, D. G.
Bibliographical reference

Galaxies in Isolation: Exploring Nature Versus Nurture, proceedings of a conference held 12 to 15 May 2009 in Granada, Spain. Edited by Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, Ascencíon del Olmo, and Jack Sulentic. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010., p.121

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2010
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Our conception of galaxy evolution inside clusters have recently changed due to an increasing evidence suggesting a pre-processing of galaxies at moderate densities. Based on the high frequency of interacting systems found at intermediate densities, we use the SDSS-DR4 data to analyse the role of close galaxy interactions as environmental mechanisms to operate in the evolutionary transformations. We explore the properties of galaxy pairs at different local and global density environments, comparing them with those of isolated galaxies in an unbiased control sample.