Gwang-Ho Lee
Seoul National University
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The Astrophysical Journal | 2012
Gwang-Ho Lee; Changbom Park; Myung Gyoon Lee; Yun-Young Choi
We investigate the dependence of the occurrence of bars in galaxies on galaxy properties and environment. We use a volume-limited sample of 33,391 galaxies brighter than Mr = ?19.5 + 5logh at 0.02 ? z ? 0.05489, drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. We classify the galaxies into early and late types, and identify bars by visual inspection. Among 10,674 late-type galaxies with axis ratio b/a > 0.60, we find 3240 barred galaxies (f bar = 30.4%) which divide into 2542 strong bars (f SB1 = 23.8%) and 698 weak bars (f SB2 = 6.5%). We find that f SB1 increases as u ? r color becomes redder and that it has a maximum value at intermediate velocity dispersion (? 150?km?s?1). This trend suggests that strong bars are dominantly hosted by intermediate-mass systems. Weak bars prefer bluer galaxies with lower mass and lower concentration. In the case of strong bars, their dependence on the concentration index appears only for massive galaxies with ? > 150?km?s?1. We also find that f bar does not directly depend on the large-scale background density when other physical parameters (u ? r color or ?) are fixed. We discover that f SB1 decreases as the separation to the nearest neighbor galaxy becomes smaller than 0.1 times the virial radius of the neighbor regardless of neighbors morphology. These results imply that strong bars are likely to be destroyed during strong tidal interactions and that the mechanism for this phenomenon is gravitational and not hydrodynamical. The fraction of weak bars has no correlation with environmental parameters. We do not find any direct evidence for environmental stimulation of bar formation.
The Astrophysical Journal | 2013
Jubee Sohn; Ho Seong Hwang; Myung Gyoon Lee; Gwang-Ho Lee; Jong Chul Lee
We study the nuclear activity of galaxies in local compact groups. We use a spectroscopic sample of 238 galaxies in 58 compact groups from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7 to estimate the fraction of active galactic nucleus (AGN) host galaxies in compact groups, and to compare it with those in cluster and field regions. We use emission-line ratio diagrams to identify AGN host galaxies and find that the AGN fraction of compact group galaxies is 17%-42% depending on the AGN classification method. The AGN fraction in compact groups is not the highest among the galaxy environments. This trend remains even if we use several subsamples segregated by galaxy morphology and optical luminosity. The AGN fraction for early-type galaxies decreases with increasing galaxy number density, but the fraction for late-type galaxies changes little. We find no mid-infrared detected AGN host galaxies in our sample of compact groups using Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer data. These results suggest that the nuclear activity of compact group galaxies (mostly early types) is not strong because of lack of gas supply even though they may experience frequent galaxy-galaxy interactions and mergers that could trigger nuclear activity.
The Astrophysical Journal | 2015
Gwang-Ho Lee; Ho Seong Hwang; Myung Gyoon Lee; Jongwan Ko; Jubee Sohn; Hyunjin Shim
We study the mid-infrared (MIR) properties of the galaxies in the A2199 supercluster at z = 0.03 to understand the star formation activity of galaxy groups and clusters in the supercluster environment. Using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer data, we find no dependence of mass-normalized integrated SFRs of galaxy groups/clusters on their virial masses. We classify the supercluster galaxies into three classes in the MIR color-luminosity diagram: MIR blue cloud (massive, quiescent and mostly early-type), MIR star-forming sequence (mostly late-type), and MIR green valley galaxies. These MIR green valley galaxies are distinguishable from the optical green valley galaxies, in the sense that they belong to the optical red sequence. We find that the fraction of each MIR class does not depend on virial mass of each group/cluster. We compare the cumulative distributions of surface galaxy number density and cluster/group-centric distance for the three MIR classes. MIR green valley galaxies show the distribution between MIR blue cloud and MIR SF sequence galaxies. However, if we fix galaxy morphology, early- and late-type MIR green valley galaxies show different distributions. Our results suggest a possible evolutionary scenario of these galaxies: 1) Late-type MIR SF sequence galaxies -> 2) Late-type MIR green valley galaxies -> 3) Early-type MIR green valley galaxies -> 4) Early-type MIR blue cloud galaxies. In this sequence, star formation of galaxies is quenched before the galaxies enter the MIR green valley, and then morphological transformation occurs in the MIR green valley.
Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society | 2015
Jubee Sohn; Ho Seong Hwang; Margaret J. Geller; Kenneth Rines; Myung Gyoon Lee; Gwang-Ho Lee
Dynamical analysis of compact groups provides important tests of models of compact group formation and evolution. By compiling 2066 redshifts from FLWO/FAST, from the literature, and from SDSS DR12 in the fields of compact groups in McConnachie et al. (2009), we construct the largest sample of compact groups with complete spectroscopic redshifts in the redshift range 0.01 −1 kpc, smaller than the radii typically sampled by members of massive clusters of galaxies. The physical properties of our sample compact groups include size, number density, velocity dispersion, and local environment; these properties slightly differ from those derived for the original Hickson compact groups and for the DPOSS II compact groups. Differences result from subtle differences in the way the group candidates were originally selected. The abundance of the compact groups changes little with redshift over the range covered by this sample. The approximate constancy of the abundance for this sample is a potential constraint on the evolution of compact groups on a few Gigayear timescale .
The Astrophysical Journal | 2017
Eunbin Kim; Ho Seong Hwang; Haeun Chung; Gwang-Ho Lee; Changbom Park; Bernardo Cervantes Sodi; Sungsoo S. Kim
We study the star formation activity of nearby galaxies with bars using a sample of late-type galaxies at 0.02
The Astrophysical Journal | 2017
Gwang-Ho Lee; Ho Seong Hwang; Jubee Sohn; Myung Gyoon Lee
\leq z \leq
The Astrophysical Journal | 2016
Jong Chul Lee; Ho Seong Hwang; Gwang-Ho Lee
0.05489 and
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018
Eunbin Kim; Sungsoo S. Kim; Yun-Young Choi; Gwang-Ho Lee; Richard de Grijs; Myung Gyoon Lee; Ho Seong Hwang
M_r <-19.5
The Astrophysical Journal | 2012
Gwang-Ho Lee; Jong-Hak Woo; Myung Gyoon Lee; Ho Seong Hwang; Jong Chul Lee; Jubee Sohn; Jong Hwan Lee
from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We compare the physical properties of strongly and weakly barred galaxies with those of non-barred galaxies that have stellar mass and redshift distributions similar to barred galaxies. We find that the star formation activity of strongly barred galaxies probed by starburstiness,
Journal of Animal Science and Technology | 2016
Jueun Hong; Gwang-Ho Lee; X. H. Jin; Y. Y. Kim
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