The SAMI galaxy survey: Galaxy Interactions and Kinematic Anomalies in Abell 119

• Main Authors: Oh, Sree, Yi, Sukyoung K., Cortese, Luca, van de Sande, Jesse, Mahajan, Smriti, Jeong, Hyunjin, Sheen, Yun-Kyeong, Allen, James T., Bekki, Kenji, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bloom, Jessica V., Brough, Sarah, Bryant, Julia J., Colless, Matthew, Croom, Scott M., Fogarty, L. M. R., Goodwin, Michael, Green, Andy, Konstantopoulos, Iraklis S., Lawrence, Jon, López-Sánchez, Á. R., Lorente, Nuria P. F., Medling, Anne M., Owers, Matt S., Richards, Samuel, Scott, Nicholas, Sharp, Rob, Sweet, Sarah M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2016
• Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies astro-ph.GA; FOS Physical sciences; Blanco; sami
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1609.03595; https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03595

Galaxy mergers are important events that can determine the fate of a galaxy by changing its morphology, star-formation activity and mass growth. Merger systems have commonly been identified from their disturbed morphologies, and we now can employ Integral Field Spectroscopy to detect and analyze the impact of mergers on stellar kinematics as well. We visually classified galaxy morphology using deep images ($μ_{\rm r} = 28\,\rm mag\,\, arcsec^{-2}$) taken by the Blanco 4-m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. In this paper we investigate 63 bright ($M_{\rm r} : 11 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ