Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star-Forming Galaxies
We investigate a class of rapidly growing emission line galaxies, known as "Green Peas", first noted by volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project because of their peculiar bright green colour and small size, unresolved in SDSS imaging. Their appearance is due to very strong optical emission lin...
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| author | Cardamone, C Schawinski, K Sarzi, M Bamford, S Bennert, N Urry, C Lintott, C Keel, W Parejko, J Nichol, R Thomas, D Andreescu, D Murray, P Raddick, M Slosar, A Szalay, A VandenBerg, J |
| author_facet | Cardamone, C Schawinski, K Sarzi, M Bamford, S Bennert, N Urry, C Lintott, C Keel, W Parejko, J Nichol, R Thomas, D Andreescu, D Murray, P Raddick, M Slosar, A Szalay, A VandenBerg, J |
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| description | We investigate a class of rapidly growing emission line galaxies, known as "Green Peas", first noted by volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project because of their peculiar bright green colour and small size, unresolved in SDSS imaging. Their appearance is due to very strong optical emission lines, namely [O III] 5007 A, with an unusually large equivalent width of up to ~1000 A. We discuss a well-defined sample of 251 colour-selected objects, most of which are strongly star forming, although there are some AGN interlopers including 8 newly discovered narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies. The star-forming Peas are low mass galaxies (M~10^8.5 - 10^10 M_sun) with high star formation rates (~10 M_sun/yr), low metallicities (log[O/H] + 12 ~ 8.7) and low reddening (E(B-V) < 0.25) and they reside in low density environments. They have some of the highest specific star formation rates (up to ~10^{-8} yr^{-1}) seen in the local Universe, yielding doubling times for their stellar mass of hundreds of Myrs. The few star-forming Peas with HST imaging appear to have several clumps of bright star-forming regions and low surface density features that may indicate recent or ongoing mergers. The Peas are similar in size, mass, luminosity and metallicity to Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies. They are also similar to high redshift UV-luminous galaxies, e.g., Lyman-break galaxies and Lyman-alpha emitters, and therefore provide a local laboratory with which to study the extreme star formation processes that occur in high-redshift galaxies. Studying starbursting galaxies as a function of redshift is essential to understanding the build up of stellar mass in the Universe. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:91e45fa9-88d4-4d7a-9b68-97676bf4d4052022-03-26T23:21:43ZGalaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star-Forming GalaxiesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:91e45fa9-88d4-4d7a-9b68-97676bf4d405EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2009Cardamone, CSchawinski, KSarzi, MBamford, SBennert, NUrry, CLintott, CKeel, WParejko, JNichol, RThomas, DAndreescu, DMurray, PRaddick, MSlosar, ASzalay, AVandenBerg, JWe investigate a class of rapidly growing emission line galaxies, known as "Green Peas", first noted by volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project because of their peculiar bright green colour and small size, unresolved in SDSS imaging. Their appearance is due to very strong optical emission lines, namely [O III] 5007 A, with an unusually large equivalent width of up to ~1000 A. We discuss a well-defined sample of 251 colour-selected objects, most of which are strongly star forming, although there are some AGN interlopers including 8 newly discovered narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies. The star-forming Peas are low mass galaxies (M~10^8.5 - 10^10 M_sun) with high star formation rates (~10 M_sun/yr), low metallicities (log[O/H] + 12 ~ 8.7) and low reddening (E(B-V) < 0.25) and they reside in low density environments. They have some of the highest specific star formation rates (up to ~10^{-8} yr^{-1}) seen in the local Universe, yielding doubling times for their stellar mass of hundreds of Myrs. The few star-forming Peas with HST imaging appear to have several clumps of bright star-forming regions and low surface density features that may indicate recent or ongoing mergers. The Peas are similar in size, mass, luminosity and metallicity to Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies. They are also similar to high redshift UV-luminous galaxies, e.g., Lyman-break galaxies and Lyman-alpha emitters, and therefore provide a local laboratory with which to study the extreme star formation processes that occur in high-redshift galaxies. Studying starbursting galaxies as a function of redshift is essential to understanding the build up of stellar mass in the Universe. |
| spellingShingle | Cardamone, C Schawinski, K Sarzi, M Bamford, S Bennert, N Urry, C Lintott, C Keel, W Parejko, J Nichol, R Thomas, D Andreescu, D Murray, P Raddick, M Slosar, A Szalay, A VandenBerg, J Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star-Forming Galaxies |
| title | Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely
Star-Forming Galaxies |
| title_full | Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely
Star-Forming Galaxies |
| title_fullStr | Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely
Star-Forming Galaxies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely
Star-Forming Galaxies |
| title_short | Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely
Star-Forming Galaxies |
| title_sort | galaxy zoo green peas discovery of a class of compact extremely star forming galaxies |
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