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Fir Statistics of Paired Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jack W. Sulentic
Jack W. Sulentic*
Affiliation:
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 35487USA

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Much progress has been made in understanding the effects of interaction on galaxies (see reviews in this volume by Heckman and Kennicutt). Evidence for enhanced emission from galaxies in pairs first emerged in the radio (Sulentic 1976) and optical (Larson and Tinsley 1978) domains. Results in the FIR lagged behind until the advent of the IRAS satellite. The last five years have seen numerous FIR studies of optical and IR selected samples of interacting galaxies (e.g., Cutri and McAlary 1985; Joseph and Wright 1985; Kennicutt et al. 1987; Haynes and Herter 1988). Despite all of this work, there are still contradictory ideas about the level and, even, the reality of an FIR enhancement in interacting galaxies. Much of the confusion originates in differences between the galaxy samples that were studied (i.e., optical morphology and redshift coverage). We report on a study of the FIR detection properties for a large sample of interacting galaxies and a matching control sample. We focus on the distance independent detection fraction (DF) statistics of the sample. The results prove useful in interpreting the previously published work. A clarification of the phenomenology provides valuable clues about the physics of the FIR enhancement in galaxies.

Type
IV. Observations of Global Activity due to Interaction
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 124: Paired and Interacting Galaxies , 1990 , pp. 291 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1990

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