TY  - GEN 
AU  - Verley, Simon
AU  - Verdes-Montenegro, L.
AU  - Combes, F.
AU  - Sabater, J.
AU  - Sulentic, J.
AU  - Bergond, G.
AU  - Espada Fernández, Daniel
AU  - García, E.
AU  - Lisenfeld , Ute
AU  - Odewahn, S. C.
PY  - 2007
SN  - 0004-6361
SN  - 1432-0746
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/28400
AB  - Context.The AMIGA project aims to build a well defined and statistically significant reference sample of isolated galaxies in order to estimate the environmental effects on the formation and evolution of galaxies.
AB  - Aims.The goal of this paper is to provide a measure of the environment of the isolated galaxies in the AMIGA sample, quantifying the influence of the candidate neighbours identified in our previous work and their potential effects on the evolution of...
AB  - Methods.Our starting sample is the Catalogue of Isolated Galaxies (CIG). We used two parameters to estimate the influence exerted by the neighbour galaxies on the CIG galaxy: the local number density of neighbour galaxies and the tidal strength...
AB  - Results.The CIG galaxies show a continuous spectrum of isolation, as quantified by the two parameters, from very isolated to interacting. The fraction of CIG galaxies whose properties are expected to be influenced by the environment is however low...
AB  - Conclusions.The environment of the galaxies in the CIG has been characterised, using two complementary parameters quantifying the isolation degree, the local number density of the neighbour galaxies and the tidal forces affecting the isolated...
LA  - eng
PB  - European Southern Observatory (ESO); Springer Verlag
KW  - Galaxies
KW  - Fundamental parameters
KW  - Formation
KW  - Evolution
TI  - The AMIGA sample of isolated galaxies: V Quantification of the isolation
DO  - 10.1051/0004-6361:20077481
ER  -