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从WINGS数据库中寻找邻近星系团中早型星系的基本面

The Fundamental Plane of Early Type Galaxies in Nearby Clusters from the WINGS Database

M. D'Onofrio, G. Fasano, J. Varela, D. Bettoni, M. Moles, P. Kjaergaard, E. Pignatelli, B. Poggianti, D. Dressler, A. Cava, J. Fritz, W. J. Couch, A. Omizzolo

摘要:

利用WINGS、NFPS和SDSS三个大型巡天的观测资料,对红移范围$0.04<z<0.07$内59个星系团的早型星系(ETG)的基本面(FP)进行了比较分析。我们发现,在我们的样本中的集群得出的FP系数的分布的方差是不一致的假设的FP关系的普遍性。通过调查这种显着的差异的起源,我们发现,除了一对夫妇的明显因素,如采用的拟合技术和方法来测量光度和运动变量,系数的FP强烈影响的一些事情,主要涉及到的光度/运动学特性的星系在特定的样本分析。例如,从整个ETG样本中导出的$a$系数,当从样本中逐渐移除暗淡的星系时会降低,这表明明亮和暗淡的ETG具有系统性不同的FP,可能是因为星系形成的机制不同。在一般情况下,通过比较模拟集群样本与真实的,我们得出结论,观察到的FP系数的方差不能仅仅归因于统计的不确定性。我们推测,FP实际上是一个弯曲的表面,这是近似由不同的平面时,不同的选择标准,无论是选择或诱导的观测,正在采取行动,以定义星系样本。我们还发现……

英文摘要:

By exploting the data of three large surveys (WINGS, NFPS and SDSS), we present here a comparative analysis of the Fundamental Plane (FP hereafter) of the early-type galaxies (ETGs) belonging to 59 galaxy clusters in the redshift range $0.04<z<0.07$. We show that the variances of the distributions of the FP coefficients derived for the clusters in our sample are not consistent with the hypothesis of universality of the FP relation. By investigating the origin of such remarkable variances we find that, besides a couple of obvious factors, such as the adopted fitting technique and the method used to measure the photometric and kinematic variables, the coefficients of the FP are strongly influenced by a number of things, mainly related to the distribution of photometric/kinematic properties of galaxies in the particular sample under analysis. For instance, the $a$ coefficient derived for the whole sample of ETGs, turns out to decrease when faint galaxies are progressively removed from the sample, suggesting that bright and faint ETGs have systematically different FPs, likely because of different mechanisms of galaxy formation. In general, by comparing mock cluster samples with the real one, we conclude that the observed variances of the FP coefficients cannot be attributed just to statistical uncertainties. We speculate that the FP is actually a bent surface, which is approximated by different planes when different selection criteria, either chosen or induced by observations, are acting to define galaxies samples. We also find ...

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