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Morphology and color indices of galaxies in Pairs: Criteria for the classification of galaxies

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We have examined the relationship between the morphological types and the u-r, g-i, and r-z color indices of 365 pairs of galaxies with radial velocities 3000<V<9500 km/s selected from the SDSS DR5 survey using the second order Voronoi tesselation method. It is shown that the paired galaxies include a smaller fraction of blue compact galaxies than isolated galaxies. Using the relationship between the color index and a parameter such as the inverse concentration index, absolute magnitude, and the de Vaucouleurs or scale radius, we propose a “color indices criterion” for the morphological classification of galaxies into three classes: (1) elliptical and lenticular E-S0, (2) spiral Sa-Scd, and (3) late spiral Sd-Sdm and irregular Im/BCG. We did not detect the Holmberg effect in our sample; the correlation found in the color indices of the components of galactic pairs is fully explained by the dependence of the morphological type of a galaxy on its color index.

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  1. Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, Liege University, Liege, Belgium

    O. V. Melnyk

  2. Astronomical Observatory, Taras Shevchenko Kiev University, Kiev, Ukraine

    O. V. Melnyk & D. V. Dobrycheva

  3. Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

    I. B. Vavilova

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Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 321–335 (August 2012).

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Melnyk, O.V., Dobrycheva, D.V. & Vavilova, I.B. Morphology and color indices of galaxies in Pairs: Criteria for the classification of galaxies. Astrophysics 55, 293–305 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10511-012-9236-7

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