The Environmental Influence on the Evolution of Local Galaxies

Bouchard, Antoine; Da Costa, Gary; Jerjen, Helmut

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The Environmental Influence on the Evolution of Local Galaxies

Date

2009

Authors

Bouchard, Antoine

Da Costa, Gary

Jerjen, Helmut

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

The results of an Hα photometric survey of 30 dwarf galaxies of various morphologies in the Centaurus A and Sculptor groups are presented. Of these 30, emission was detected in 13: eight are of late-type, two are early-type, and three are of mixed morpho