The Influence of Large-scale Environments on Galaxy Properties

The star formation properties of galaxies and their dependence on environments play an important role for understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. Using the galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), different research groups have studied the physical properties of galaxies and their large-scale environments. Here, using the filament catalog from Tempel et al. and the galaxy catalog of large-scale structure classification from Wang et al., and taking the influence of the galaxy morphology, high/low local density environment, and central (satellite) galaxy into consideration, we have found that the properties of galaxies are correlated with their residential large-scale environments: the SSFR (specific star formation rate) and SFR (star formation rate) strongly depend on the large-scale environment for spiral galaxies and satellite galaxies, but this dependence is very weak for elliptical galaxies and central galaxies, and the influence of large-scale environments on galaxies in low density region is more sensitive than that in high density region. The above conclusions remain valid even for the galaxies with the same mass. In addition, the SSFR distributions derived from the catalogs of Tempel et al. and Wang et al. are not entirely consistent.