Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): Morphologically-selected galaxy merger fractions and their direct comparison to close-pair samples

arXiv:2606.31140 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-06-30 · Read on arXiv

Melissa F. Fuentealba-Fuentes, Luke J. M. Davies, Aaron S. G. Robotham, Sabine Bellstedt, Claudia D. P. Lagos, Michael J. I. Brown, Malgorzata Siudek

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-06-30

Comments: 16 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Project page: https://devilsurvey.org

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Aperture — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
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• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Advanced Camera for Surveys — 1× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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