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天炉座星系团光度函数的一个平坦的暗淡端

A flat faint end of the Fornax cluster galaxy luminosity function

Steffen Mieske, Michael Hilker, Leopoldo Infante, Claudia Mendes de Oliveira

摘要:

利用Las Campanas天文台IMACS/Magellan对早型天炉座矮星系群(M_V>-17等)的V带和I带宽视场成像研究,分析了该星系群的光度学性质。我们通过以下三个步骤创建了一个包含约100个天炉座矮椭圆星系(dEs)的基准样本:(1)为了验证星系团的成员资格,我们测量了I波段表面亮度起伏(SBF)到先前观测中已知的候选dEs的距离:(2)对那些太暗而无法探测到SBF的候选dEs重新进行形态分类;(3)在接近以往巡天分辨率极限的大小-光度范围内寻找新的候选dEs。所得到的基准dE样本遵循明确定义的表面亮度-星等关系,表明天炉座dE比本星系群dE大约40%。该样本还定义了一个类似于本地组dEs的颜色-幅度关系。在天炉座的早期型矮星系光度函数有一个非常平坦的暗端斜率α = -1.1 +/- 0.1。我们将单位质量的矮星数量与其他环境中的矮星数量进行了比较,发现天炉座星系团很好地适应了在更大规模的环境中缺乏高质量矮星的总趋势。

英文摘要:

We analyse the photometric properties of the early-type Fornax cluster dwarf galaxy population (M_V>-17 mag), based on a wide field imaging study of the central cluster area in V and I band-passes with IMACS/Magellan at Las Campanas Observatory. We create a fiducial sample of ~100 Fornax cluster dwarf ellipticals (dEs) with -16.6<M_V<-8.8 mag in the following three steps: (1) To verify cluster membership, we measured I-band surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) distances to candidate dEs known from previous surveys; (2) We re-assessed morphological classifications for those candidate dEs that are too faint for SBF detection; and (3) We searched for new candidate dEs in the size-luminosity regime close to the resolution limit of previous surveys. The resulting fiducial dE sample follows a well-defined surface brightness - magnitude relation, showing that Fornax dEs are about 40% larger than Local Group dEs. The sample also defines a colour-magnitude relation similar to that of Local Group dEs. The early-type dwarf galaxy luminosity function in Fornax has a very flat faint end slope alpha = -1.1 +/- 0.1. We compare the number of dwarfs per unit mass with those in other environments and find that the Fornax cluster fits well into a general trend of a lack of high-mass dwarfs in more massive environments.

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