Bibcode
Sánchez, S. F.; Becker, T.; Garcia-Lorenzo, B.; Benn, C. R.; Christensen, L.; Kelz, A.; Jahnke, K.; Roth, M. M.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.429, p.L21-L24 (2005)
Fecha de publicación:
1
2005
Revista
Número de citas
15
Número de citas referidas
15
Descripción
We report the first results of a study of a sample of 20 galaxy
mergers/interacting systems, using the VIMOS and PMAS integral field
spectrographs. For each object, we extracted the integrated spectrum of
the central regions and analyzed the ionization state using classical
diagnostic diagrams citep{veil87}. There is evidence of AGN ionization
in 4 of the objects, i.e. 20% of the sample, a considerably higher
fraction than found in previous studies (˜4%).
An increase of the nuclear activity with the far infrared temperature
may account for the difference.