| Spatially Resolved Galaxy Star Formation and its Environmental Dependence II. Effect of the Morphology-Density Relation (2009) | |||||||||
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| In this second of a series of papers on spatially resolved star formation, we investigate the impact of the density-morphology relation of galaxies on the spatial variation of star formation (SF) and its dependence on environment. We find that while a density-morphology relation is present for the sample, it cannot solely explain the observed suppression of SF in galaxies in high-density environments. We also find that early-type and late-type galaxies exhibit distinct radial star formation rate (SFR) distributions, with early-types having a SFR distribution that extends further relative to the galaxy scale length, compared to late-types at all densities. We find that a suppression of SF in the highest density environments is found in the highest star forming galaxies for both galaxy types. This suppression occurs in the innermost regions in late-types (r . Comment: 26 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ | |||||||||
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