GOYA Survey: Mergers up to z = 1 in B- and Ks-selected samples

López-Sanjuan, C.; Balcells, M.; Prieto, M.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; Eliche-Moral, M. C.; Erwin, P.; Abreu, D.; García-Dabó, C. E.; Domínguez-Palmero, L.; Zumsteg, J.
Bibliographical reference

First Light Science with the GTC (Eds. R. Guzmán, C. Packham, J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa, & S. Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 29, pp. 172-172 (2007) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2007
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Description
In this work we present merger fractions from galaxy samples selected by either Ks-luminosity, or B-band luminosity, from the GOYA photometric survey of the Groth strip using asymmetry indices to identify merging galaxies. The merger fraction in B-band can be approximated by the function F_{mg}(z) = 0.006(1 + z)^{3.2}. The merger fraction in Ks-band has a minimum at z = 0.6 and is slightly higher in more massive galaxies.