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galaxy color bimodality: a standalone construct

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Astrophysics

the split of galaxies into a red, mostly passive population and a blue, star-forming population in colour-magnitude space.

In astrophysics, galaxy color bimodality refers to the split of galaxies into a red, mostly passive population and a blue, star-forming population in colour-magnitude space. This meaning comes from Strateva (2001) in The Astronomical Journal.[1]

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References

  1. Strateva, I., Ivezić, Ž., Knapp, G. R., Narayanan, V. K., Strauss, M. A., Gunn, J. E., Lupton, R. H., Schlegel, D., Bahcall, N. A., Brinkmann, J., Brunner, R. J., Budavári, T., Csabai, I., Castander, F. J., Doi, M., Fukugita, M., Győry, Z., Hamabe, M., Hennessy, G., Ichikawa, T., Kunszt, P. Z., Lamb, D. Q., McKay, T. A., Okamura, S., Racusin, J., Sekiguchi, M., Schneider, D. P., Shimasaku, K., & York, D. (2001). Color Separation of Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data. The Astronomical Journal, 122(4), 1861-1874. https://doi.org/10.1086/323301

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