A new automatic method to identify galaxy mergers - I. Description and application to the Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey

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Hoyos, Carlis
Aragon-Salamanca, A
Gray, M E
Maltby, David T
Bell, Eric F
Barazza, F D
Bohm, A
Haussler, Boris
Jahnke, Knud
Jogee, Shardha

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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We present a new automatic method to identify galaxy mergers using the morphological information contained in the residual images of galaxies after the subtraction of a smooth Sérsic model. The removal of the bulk signal from the host galaxy light is don

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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