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With the aim of exploring the fast evolutionary path from the blue cloud ofstar-forming galaxies to the red sequence of quiescent galaxies in the localuniverse, we select a local advanced merging infrared luminous andultraluminous galaxy (adv-merger (U)LIRGs) sample and perform careful dustextinction corrections to investigate their positions in the SFR-$M_{\ast}$,u-r and NUV-r color-mass diagrams. The sample consists of 89 (U)LIRGs at thelate merger stage, obtained from cross-correlating the IRAS Point SourceCatalog Redshift Survey and 1 Jy ULIRGs samples with the Sloan Digital SkySurvey DR7 database. Our results show that $74\%\pm 5\%$ of adv-merger (U)LIRGsare localized above the $1\, \sigma$ line of the local star-forming galaxy mainsequence. We also find that all adv-merger (U)LIRGs are more massive than andas blue as the blue cloud galaxies after corrections of Galactic and internaldust extinctions, with $95\%\pm 2\%$ and $81\%\pm 4\%$ of them outside the bluecloud on the u-r and NUV-r color-mass diagrams, respectively. These results,combined with the short timescale for exhausting the molecular gas reservoir inadv-merger (U)LIRGs ($3\times 10^{7}$ to $3\times 10^{8}$ years), imply thatthe adv-merger (U)LIRGs are likely at the starting point of the fastevolutionary track previously proposed by several groups. While the numberdensity of adv-merger (U)LIRGs is only $\sim 0.1\%$ of the blue cloudstar-forming galaxies in the local universe, this evolutionary track may play amore important role at high redshift.

The role of major gas-rich mergers on the evolution of galaxies from the blue cloud to the red sequence