Large-scale modulation of star formation in void walls

CECCARELLI, LAURA; PADILLA, NELSON D.; GARCÍA LAMBAS, DIEGO

San Juan

Workshop; 51ª Reunión Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Astronomía; 2008

We perform a statistical study of galaxies in voids and void walls in the SDSS and 2dFGRS catalogues. We investigate dependencies of the distribution of galaxy spectral types and colours as a function of the relative position to the void centres for different luminosity and local density ranges. We find a trend towards bluer, star forming galaxies in void walls beyond the local density dependence. These results indicate that luminosity and local density do not entirely determine the distribution of galaxy properties such as colours and spectral types, and point towards a large scale modulation of star formation.