No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Environmental density of galaxies from SDSS via Voronoi tessellation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2016
Abstract
The aim of our work was to determine the environmental density of galaxies from SDSS DR9 using the Voronoi tessellation. We constructed the 3D Voronoi tessellation for the volume-limited galaxy sample within 0.02 <z<0.1 and -24 Mr-20.7 using an inverse volume of Voronoi cell as a parameter describing the local environmental density of a galaxy. It allowed us to inspect the morphology - density relation. We obtained that the early type galaxies prefer to reside in the Voronoi cells of smaller volumes (i.e. dense environments) than the late type galaxies, which are located in the larger Voronoi cells (i.e. sparse environments).
- Type
- Contributed Papers
- Information
- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Symposium S308: The Zeldovich Universe: Genesis and Growth of the Cosmic Web , June 2014 , pp. 248 - 249
- Copyright
- Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016