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Abstract

Probing the Effect of environment on the Properties of Mid-Infrared Galaxies in the NEP with HSC+AKARI

Daryl Joe D. Santos (NTHU), Tomotsugu Goto (NTHU), Seong Jin Kim (NTHU), Ting-Wen Wang (NTHU), Simon C.-C. Ho (NTHU), Tetsuya Hashimoto (NTHU/CICA), Ting-Chi Huang (SOKENDAI), Ting-Yi Lu (NTHU), Alvina Y. L. On (NTHU/CICA/UCL) Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao (NTHU)

Galaxy environment has shown to affect various intrinsic galaxy properties, suggesting its important role in galaxy formation and evolution. To have a more complete picture of this concept, it is also important to look into infrared (IR) observations where dusty luminous galaxies can be observed and the bulk of the Universe's star formation activity is found compared to optical and ultraviolet observations. The aim of this work is to study the role of galaxy environment in the properties of galaxies detected in the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelengths by the AKARI IR telescope in the North Ecliptic Pole Wide (NEPW) field at 0 < z < 1.2. We take advantage of AKARI’s continuous 9-band filter system which gives us better diagnostics compared with other infrared (IR) telescopes (i.e., WISE and Spitzer) in identifying star-forming galaxies (SFGs) from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) which are both bright in the IR wavelength. Local density, the chosen environment measure for this study, was measured using galaxies detected by Subaru/HSC telescope. CIGALE SED fitting was also used to constrain the galaxy properties of our MIR galaxies. We report on our MIR galaxies’ observed relationships between galaxy environment and various properties (e.g., color, luminosity, star-formation rate, etc).

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