ALFALFA

ALFALFA Team Project

Proposal Title: Impact of the Group Environment from ALFALFA
Project Leader: Martha Haynes
Other Co-Authors: Rose Finn, Mary Crone Odekon, Tom Balonek, Sarah Higdon, Aileen O'Donoghue, Becky Koopmann + other members of the Undergraduate ALFALFA Team
Institution: Various.
Time frame: 2008--
Publication expected Several senior theses; group collaborative papers along the way also.

Description:

Nearby groups of galaxies provide interesting laboratories for studies of the impact of environment on gas content, morphology, nuclear activity, etc. Some members of the Undergrad ALFALFA team are initiating a collaborative study of selected groups of galaxies included in the ALFALFA volume. Using ALFALFA and complementary data available in the literature or from digital databases like SDSS, trends in stellar mass, gas content, location within the group, etc will be investigated. By pooling together the work undertaken by different institutions with the UAT, we will be able to compare results for groups of different richness, X-ray luminosity, velocity dispersion, etc. This project will involve undergraduates at the participating institutions, will form the basis of several senior thesis/research projects and will foster the continuing engagement of members of the Undergraduate ALFALFA team.


ALFALFA region: Regions of selected nearby galaxy groups selected from catalogs. Targets will be selected so as to avoid conflict with any other ALFALFA team projects. See the Undergraduate ALFALFA Team Groups Project page for further details.

ALFALFA data to be used:   Grids and catalogs.

Other data sets to be used:   SDSS, AGC, RASSCALS (X-ray) other datasets as available

Note: Members of the undergraduate ALFALFA team have access to hardware running IDL_ALFA at their home institutions as well as funds to travel to Arecibo for an annual workshop and for observing sessions. Members are encouraged to become familiar with all facets of ALFALFA activities including observing and both Level I and II processing. Some members have participated in on-site ALFALFA observing and several have made significant contributions to observing and data reduction. We anticipate that this involvement will continue to develop.



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