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dc.contributor.authorEllison, Sara L.
dc.contributor.authorWilkinson, Scott
dc.contributor.authorWoo, Joanna
dc.contributor.authorLeung, Ho-Hin
dc.contributor.authorWild, Vivienne
dc.contributor.authorBickley, Robert W.
dc.contributor.authorPatton, David R.
dc.contributor.authorQuai, Salvatore
dc.contributor.authorGwyn, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-06T14:30:07Z
dc.date.available2022-10-06T14:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2022-09-23
dc.identifier281616104
dc.identifierc5307b0d-6f6e-4775-a618-ef3145e29968
dc.identifier85143892882
dc.identifier.citationEllison , S L , Wilkinson , S , Woo , J , Leung , H-H , Wild , V , Bickley , R W , Patton , D R , Quai , S & Gwyn , S 2022 , ' Galaxy mergers can rapidly shut down star formation ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. Advance article , pp. L92-L96 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slac109en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.otherBibCode: 2022arXiv220907613E
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26150
dc.description.abstractGalaxy mergers trigger both star formation and accretion onto the central supermassive black hole. As a result of subsequent energetic feedback processes, it has long been proposed that star formation may be promptly extinguished in galaxy merger remnants. However, this prediction of widespread, rapid quenching in late stage mergers has been recently called into question with modern simulations and has never been tested observationally. Here we perform the first empirical assessment of the long-predicted end phase in the merger sequence. Based on a sample of ~500 post-mergers identified from the Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS), we show that the frequency of post-merger galaxies that have rapidly shutdown their star formation following a previous starburst is 30-60 times higher than expected from a control sample of non-merging galaxies. No such excess is found in a sample of close galaxy pairs, demonstrating that mergers can indeed lead to a rapid halt to star formation, but that this process only manifests after coalescence.
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dc.format.extent168600
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyen
dc.subjectGalaxies: evolutionen
dc.subjectGalaxies: interactionsen
dc.subjectGalaxies: starbursten
dc.subjectQB Astronomyen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectMCPen
dc.subject.lccQBen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleGalaxy mergers can rapidly shut down star formationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/mnrasl/slac109
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220907613Een


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