The Environments of the Most Massive Galaxies and Black Holes

  • Yoon, Yongmin (CEOU/Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Im, Myungshin (CEOU/Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2014.10.13

Abstract

We study the environment of the most massive galaxies and the most massive black holes. We use SDSS DR7 data, the catalog from Simard et al. (2011), Mendel et al. (2014), and KIAS value-added galaxy catalog (Choi et al. 2011). Currently, we investigate the number density as an environment around each galaxy. Number densities are measured by $5^{th}$ and $10^{th}$ nearest photometric galaxies within 7000km/s from the spectroscopic galaxies. The most massive galaxies (M > $10^{12}M_{\odot}$) or black holes ($M{\sim}10^{10}M_{\odot}$) tend to reside in very dense regions in comparison with less massive ones. We also present the research plan and future work.

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