Browsing by Author "Carpineti, Alfredo"

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    • Galaxy Zoo: major galaxy mergers are not a significant quenching pathway 

      Weigel, Anna K.; Schawinski, Kevin; Caplar, Neven; Carpineti, Alfredo; Hart, Ross E.; Kaviraj, Sugata; Keel, William C.; Kruk, Sandor J.; Lintott, Chris J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Simmons, Brooke D.; Smethurst, Rebecca J. (2017-08-21)
      We use stellar mass functions to study the properties and the significance of quenching through major galaxy mergers. In addition to SDSS DR7 and Galaxy Zoo 1 data, we use samples of visually selected major galaxy mergers ...

    • An infrared study of local galaxy mergers 

      Carpineti, Alfredo; Kaviraj, Sugata; Hyde, Ashley K.; Clements, David L.; Schawinski, Kevin; Darg, Daniel; Lintott, Chris J. (2015-05-13)
      We combine a large, homogeneous sample of $\sim$3000 local mergers with the Imperial IRAS Faint Source Redshift Catalogue (IIFSCz), to perform a blind far-infrared (FIR) study of the local merger population. The IRAS-detected ...