History of galaxy interactions and their impact on star formation over the last 7 Gyr from GEMS

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Jogee, Shardha
Miller, Sarah H
Penner, Kyle
Skelton, Rosalind E
Conselice, Christopher
Somerville, Rachel S
Bell, Eric F
Zheng, Xian Zhong
Rix, Hans-Walter
Robaina, Aday R

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IOP Publishing

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We perform a comprehensive estimate of the frequency of galaxy mergers and their impact on star formation over z 0.24-0.80 (lookback time Tb 3-7Gyr) using 3600 (M≥ 1 × 109 M⊙) galaxies with GEMS Hubble Space Telescope, COMBO-17, and Spitzer data. Our

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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2037-12-31