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BreakBRD Galaxies. I. Global Properties of Spiral Galaxies with Central Star Formation in Red Disks

  • Authors: Sarah E. Tuttle, and Stephanie Tonnesen

2020 The Astrophysical Journal 889 188.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

We plot our selection criteria, showing the (g–r) disk color (using a de Vaucouleurs fit for the bulge and an exponential disk, or nb4 fit) compared to the Dn4000 value from the SDSS fiber spectrum. BreakBRD galaxies are the green circles and histograms. The parent sample is shown with the underlying contours and open histograms, with low- and high-sSFR samples shown in red and blue, respectively. The low-sSFR histograms have thicker lines to aid the eye. The p-value from the two-sample K-S test between the breakBRD galaxies and the low- and high-sSFR samples are listed in the upper right corner for the plotted variables. The p-value will be reported for all histograms in their respective figures. Even when holding the fit constant (nb4), the sample selected contains galaxies with much redder disks than comparably star-forming galaxies in the parent sample.

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