Poster Title: Colours of moderate luminosity mergers
Abstract: Here we present optical and NIR colours of mergers with moderate FIR luminosity (5*109 - 1010 L_sun). These objects may not be the results of major mergers between two spirals, but rather originate in mergers between galaxies of unequal mass or a spiral and an elliptical (S + E merger). The main questions in our project are: What are the age and the intensity of a starburst triggered by the merging process? Is the extension comparable to ULIRGs where the starburst is concentrated to the center or is an extended starburst as in the prototypical S+E merger NGC 4194 characteristic for these mergers?
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