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英仙座星系团核心微弱矮椭圆星系群的Keck光谱:混合恒星星族和平坦光度函数

Keck spectroscopy of the faint dwarf elliptical galaxy population in the Perseus Cluster core: mixed stellar populations and a flat luminosity function

Samantha J. Penny, Christopher J. Conselice

摘要:

本文介绍了英仙座星系团核内低至M_B =-12.5等的矮星系的测光和LRIS光谱研究结果。获得了23个矮星系候选者的光谱,从中我们测量径向速度和恒星星族的吸收线指数的特点。从径向速度获得使用这些光谱,我们确认12个系统的集群成员,与其余11个非成员。利用这些新确认的星团成员,我们可以将英仙座星团的色-星等关系推广到M_B =-12.5。我们证实了在M_B =-15.5以下,色星等关系的散射增加,但拒绝了红矮星是星团成员的假设。我们测量了亮度函数在M_B = -18和M_B =-12.5之间的暗端斜率,发现α = -1.26 \pm 0.06,这与场的暗端斜率相似。这意味着英仙座星系团的核心并不存在过多的矮星系。通过比较金属和巴耳末吸收线指数与α增强的单恒星星族模型,我们得出这些新确认的集群成员的年龄和金属丰度。我们发现了两个不同的矮椭圆种群:一个年龄约为8 Gyr,金属丰度[Fe/H] <-0.33的古老的贫金属种群,和一个年龄< 5 Gyr,金属丰度[Fe/H] >-0.33的年轻的富金属种群。因此英仙座星系团中的矮星系并不是一个简单的同质群体,而是在年龄和金属丰度上表现出一定的范围。

英文摘要:

We present the result of a photometric and Keck-LRIS spectroscopic study of dwarf galaxies in the core of the Perseus Cluster, down to a magnitude of M_B = -12.5. Spectra were obtained for twenty-three dwarf-galaxy candidates, from which we measure radial velocities and stellar population characteristics from absorption line indices. From radial velocities obtained using these spectra we confirm twelve systems as cluster members, with the remaining eleven as non-members. Using these newly confirmed cluster members, we are able to extend the confirmed colour-magnitude relation for the Perseus Cluster down to M_B = -12.5. We confirm an increase in the scatter about the colour magnitude relationship below M_B = -15.5, but reject the hypothesis that very red dwarfs are cluster members. We measure the faint-end slope of the luminosity function between M_B = -18 and M_B = -12.5, finding alpha = -1.26 \pm 0.06, which is similar to that of the field. This implies that an overabundance of dwarf galaxies does not exist in the core of the Perseus Cluster. By comparing metal and Balmer absorption line indices with alpha-enhanced single stellar population models, we derive ages and metallicities for these newly confirmed cluster members. We find two distinct dwarf elliptical populations: an old, metal poor population with ages ~ 8 Gyr and metallicities [Fe/H] < -0.33, and a young, metal rich population with ages < 5 Gyr and metallicities [Fe/H] > -0.33. Dwarf galaxies in the Perseus Cluster are therefore not a simple homogeneous population, but rather exhibit a range in age and metallicity.

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