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The influence of environment on galaxy age, stellar velocity dispersion, and stellar mass in the LOWZ sample of the SDSS-III

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In this work, I examine the environmental dependence of galaxy age, stellar velocity dispersion and stellar mass in the LOWZ sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 (SDSS DR10). I measure the projected local density Σ5, divide the LOWZ sample into subsamples with a redshift binning size of Δz = 0.02 and analyze the environmental dependence of galaxy age, stellar velocity dispersion and stellar mass in each redshift bin. It is found that galaxy age, stellar velocity dispersion and stellar mass in the LOWZ galaxy sample are very weakly correlatedwith the local environment, like the one in theCMASS galaxy sample does.

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Published in Russian in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 277–285.

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Deng, XF. The influence of environment on galaxy age, stellar velocity dispersion, and stellar mass in the LOWZ sample of the SDSS-III. Astron. Lett. 41, 252–259 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377371506002X

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