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从ESO看z~1以来最亮星系团的演化

The evolution of the brightest cluster galaxies since z~1 from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS)

I. M. Whiley, A. Aragon-Salamanca, G. De Lucia, A. von der Linden, S. P. Bamford, P. Best, M. N. Bremer, P. Jablonka, O. Johnson, B. Milvang-Jensen, S. Noll, B.… 展开作者

I. M. Whiley, A. Aragon-Salamanca, G. De Lucia, A. von der Linden, S. P. Bamford, P. Best, M. N. Bremer, P. Jablonka, O. Johnson, B. Milvang-Jensen, S. Noll, B. M. Poggianti, G. Rudnick, R. Saglia, S. White, D. Zaritsky

摘要:

[摘要]我们提出了来自ESO遥远星系团巡天的最亮星系团(BCGs)的K波段数据。这些数据与阿拉贡-萨拉曼卡等人(1998年)的测光和冯德林登等人(2007年)的低红移比较样本相结合。由于z=1,BCG的K波段哈勃图显示出非常低的散射(~ 0.35等)。BCGs的颜色和$K$波段光度演化与z>2时形成的被动演化恒星星族有很好的一致性。我们没有检测到任何显着的变化,恒星质量的BCG自z~1。这些结果似乎并不依赖于母星系团的速度色散。星团的一维速度色散和BCGs的K波段光度之间存在相关性(在对被动演化进行校正后)。具有大速度分散的团簇倾向于具有更亮的BCG,即,质量较大的BCGs。这种依赖性虽然很重要,但相对较弱:在星团质量的两个数量级范围内,BCGs的恒星质量变化仅为70%。这种依赖性不会随着红移而显著改变。De Lucia & Blaizot(2007)的模型预测的颜色与观测结果相当吻合,因为恒星质量的增长主要是由老恒星的吸积决定的。然而,在模型BCGs中,恒星质量从z=1开始增长了3-4倍,这一增长率似乎被观测所排除。该模型预测BCG的恒星质量和母星系团的速度色散之间的依赖关系与数据相同,但这种依赖关系比观察到的要强得多。然而,在这种比较中的一个主要困难是,我们已经测量了固定的公制孔径大小,而模型计算总光度。

英文摘要:

[Abridged] We present K-band data for the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. These data are combined with photometry from Aragon-Salamanca et al. (1998) and a low-redshift comparison sample from von der Linden et al. (2007). The K-band Hubble diagram for BCGs exhibits very low scatter (~0.35mag) since z=1. The colour and $K$-band luminosity evolution of the BCGs are in good agreement with passively-evolving stellar populations formed at z>2. We do not detect any significant change in the stellar mass of the BCG since z~1. These results do not seem to depend on the velocity dispersion of the parent cluster. There is a correlation between the 1D velocity dispersion of the clusters and the K-band luminosity of the BCGs (after correcting for passive evolution). The clusters with large velocity dispersions tend to have brighter BCGs, i.e., BCGs with larger stellar masses. This dependency, although significant, is relatively weak: the stellar mass of the BCGs changes only by ~70% over a two-order-of-magnitude range in cluster mass. This dependency doesn't change significantly with redshift. The models of De Lucia & Blaizot (2007) predict colours which are in reasonable agreement with the observations because the growth in stellar mass is dominated by the accretion of old stars. However, the stellar mass in the model BCGs grows by a factor of 3-4 since z=1, a growth rate which seems to be ruled out by the observations. The models predict a dependency between the BCG's stellar mass and the velocity dispersion of the parent cluster in the same sense as the data, but the dependency is significantly stronger than observed. However, one major difficulty in this comparison is that we have measured fixed metric aperture magnitudes while the models compute total luminosities.

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