Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 397, Issue 2, Pages 726-732Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15028.x
Keywords
galaxies: distances and redshifts; cosmology: theory; dark matter; large-scale structure of Universe
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Funding
- NSFC [10533030, 10633020]
- 973 Program [2007CB815402]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Participating Institutions
- National Science Foundation
- US Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
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We study the clustering properties of barred galaxies using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We compute projected redshift-space two-point cross-correlation functions w(p)(r(p)) for a sample of nearly 1000 galaxies for which we have performed detailed structural decompositions using the methods described in Gadotti. The sample includes 286 barred galaxies. The clustering of barred and unbarred galaxies of similar stellar mass is indistinguishable over all the scales probed (similar to 20 kpc-30 Mpc). This result also holds even if the sample is restricted to bars with bluer g - i colours (and hence younger ages). Our result also does not change if we split our sample of barred galaxies according to bar-to-total luminosity ratio, bar boxyness, effective surface brightness, length or the shape of the surface density profile within the bar. There is a hint that red, elliptical bars are more strongly clustered than red and less elliptical bars, on scales greater than or similar to 1 Mpc, although the statistical significance is not high. We conclude that there is no significant evidence that bars are a product of mergers or interactions. We tentatively interpret the stronger clustering of the more elliptical bars as evidence that they are located in older galaxies, which reside in more massive haloes.
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