An Observer's Guide to Build a Control Sample for Galaxy Pairs

Perez, J.; Tissera, P.; Blaizot, J.
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.276

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2010
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3
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Description
We propose a method to build a suitable control sample (CS) in order to isolate the effect of galaxy interactions by using mock galaxy catalogues. This analysis shows that several bias effects in the selection of the CS have to be overcome for a reliable comparison.