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五个中等红移星系团的明亮星系群。I.颜色-强度关系、蓝色分数与视觉形态学

The bright galaxy population of five medium redshift clusters. I. Color-Magnitude Relation, Blue Fractions and Visual Morphology

B. Ascaso, M. Moles, J. A. L. Aguerri, R. Sánchez-Janssen, J. Varela

摘要:

使用数据的红移范围内的5个星系团的$\leq$ z $\leq$ 0.25,成像与北欧光学望远镜(NOT)在中央$\approx$ 1兆秒差距$^2$在非常好的观看条件,我们已经进行了详尽的检查其明亮的星系人口。在这个红移范围内,只有少量具有所需分辨率和质量的数据可用,对于理解星系团的形成和演化特别重要。我们已经检查了这些星系团的颜色-星等关系(CMR),并测量了它们核心中星系的蓝色部分,以检查在其他工作中发现的演化证据。此外,还对星系形态进行了目视分类,考察了形态与半径的关系,无论是在CMR斜率还是在星系的蓝色部分,都没有发现演化的迹象。关于这些参数和形态混合的情况的多样性已经注意到,五个集群中有两个包含一个占主导地位的晚型核心人口。星系团A1878的一些性质与样本中的其他星系团不同,因此非常突出。在我们的分析中没有出现明显的进化迹象。这些数据支持这样一种观点,即我们星系团中星系的形态和恒星含量已经稳定在z $\sim$ 0.2。虽然样本中星系团的数量很少,无法给出明确的结论,但只有星系团中相互作用的星系的比例似乎比后发座星系团中的大。

英文摘要:

Using data of five clusters of galaxies within the redshift range 0.15 $\leq$ z $\leq$ 0.25, imaged with the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) in the central $\approx$ 1 Mpc$^2$ in very good seeing conditions, we have performed an exhaustive inspection of their bright galaxy population. That range of redshift, where only a small amount of data with the required resolution and quality is available, is particularly important for the understanding of the formation and evolution of clusters of galaxies. We have inspected the color-magnitude relation (CMR) for those clusters and measured the blue fraction of galaxies in their cores to check for evidence of evolution as found in other works. Moreover, the visual classification of the galaxy morphology has been performed and the morphology-radius relation has been examined We have not found signs of evolution neither in the slope of the CMR nor in the blue fraction of galaxies. A diversity of situations regarding those parameters and in the morphological mixing has been noticed, with two out of five clusters containing a dominant late-type core population. The cluster A1878 stands out as some of its properties differ from those of the other clusters in the sample. No clear signs of evolution appear in our analysis. The data support the view that the morphology and the stellar content of the galaxies in our clusters have been already settled at z $\sim$ 0.2. Only the fraction of interacting galaxies in the clusters appear to be larger than in clusters like Coma although the number of clusters in the sample is small to give a definitive conclusion.

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