Ages, metallicities and alpha-element enhancemen for Galaxies in Hickson compact g...
| Grant number: | 03/01625-2 |
| Support type: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate |
| Effective date (Start): | December 01, 2004 |
| Effective date (End): | August 31, 2006 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy |
| Principal Investigator: | Claudia Lucia Mendes de Oliveira |
| Grantee: | Isaura Luisa Fuentes Carrera |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Associated research grant: | 01/07342-7 - Evolution of galaxies in groups and in agglomerations, AP.TEM |
Abstract This project encompasses three main lines of research: the numerical modeling of isolated interacting galaxy pairs, the determination of the Tully-Fisher relation for galaxies in isolated interacting pairs and the study of the metallicity of tidal dwarf galaxies in compact groups of galaxies. The data available for the project are: 1) observations of galaxy pairs obtained in the last five years at the f/7.5 Cassegrain focus of the 2.1m telescope at the Observatorio Astronomico National in San Pedro Martir (Mexico), using the scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer PUMA (Rosado et al 1995), and 2) a 15-minute R image and multi-slit spectroscopy of about 40 galaxies in the field of stephan's quintet, obtained with Gemini in July 2002. (AU) | |