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从ACS中等红移星系团巡天看星系团在z ~1处的色-星等关系演化

Evolution of the Color-Magnitude Relation in Galaxy Clusters at z ~1 from the ACS Intermediate Redshift Cluster Survey

Simona Mei, Brad P. Holden, John P. Blakeslee, Holland C. Ford, Marijn Franx, Nicole L. Homeier, Garth D. Illingworth, Myungkook J. Jee, Roderik Overzier, Marc … 展开作者

Simona Mei, Brad P. Holden, John P. Blakeslee, Holland C. Ford, Marijn Franx, Nicole L. Homeier, Garth D. Illingworth, Myungkook J. Jee, Roderik Overzier, Marc Postman, Piero Rosati, Arjen van der Wel, James G. Bartlett

摘要:

我们应用ACS/HST的色-星等关系(CMR)详细观测研究了8个星系团在z~1的星系演化。早期型红色序列是很好的定义和椭圆形和透镜状星系躺在类似的CMR。我们分析了CMR参数作为红移,星系性质和集群质量的函数。对于明亮的星系(M_B <-21等),星系团核心的椭圆星族的CMR散射小于S 0星族的CMR散射,尽管在暗星等处两者变得相似。虽然明亮的S 0人口一贯表现出更大的散射比椭圆,后者的散射增加的外围集群区域。如果我们将这些结果解释为年龄差异,则星系团核心的明亮椭圆星系平均比S 0星系和外围椭圆星系老(约0.5 Gyr)。在(U-B)_z=0静止坐标系中,CMR零点、斜率和散射没有显著的红移z~1.3的演化,也没有显著的质量依赖性。我们的两个集群显示CMR零点比我们样本的平均(U-B)_z=0更红(约2 sigma)。我们还分析了形态早型和晚型星系在红色序列上的比例。我们发现,虽然在大多数星系团中,大部分(80%至90%)的CMR人口是由早型星系,在最高的红移,我们的样本的低质量星系团,CMR晚型/早型分数是相似的(~50%),与大多数的晚型人口组成的星系分类为S 0/a。这种趋势与星团的X射线光度无关,也与其速度色散无关,可能是红移的真实演变。

英文摘要:

We apply detailed observations of the Color-Magnitude Relation (CMR) with the ACS/HST to study galaxy evolution in eight clusters at z~1. The early-type red sequence is well defined and elliptical and lenticular galaxies lie on similar CMRs. We analyze CMR parameters as a function of redshift, galaxy properties and cluster mass. For bright galaxies (M_B < -21mag), the CMR scatter of the elliptical population in cluster cores is smaller than that of the S0 population, although the two become similar at faint magnitudes. While the bright S0 population consistently shows larger scatter than the ellipticals, the scatter of the latter increases in the peripheral cluster regions. If we interpret these results as due to age differences, bright elliptical galaxies in cluster cores are on average older than S0 galaxies and peripheral elliptical galaxies (by about 0.5Gyr). CMR zero point, slope, and scatter in the (U-B)_z=0 rest-frame show no significant evolution out to redshift z~1.3 nor significant dependence on cluster mass. Two of our clusters display CMR zero points that are redder (by ~2sigma) than the average (U-B)_z=0 of our sample. We also analyze the fraction of morphological early-type and late-type galaxies on the red sequence. We find that, while in the majority of the clusters most (80% to 90%) of the CMR population is composed of early-type galaxies, in the highest redshift, low mass cluster of our sample, the CMR late-type/early-type fractions are similar (~50%), with most of the late-type population composed of galaxies classified as S0/a. This trend is not correlated with the cluster's X-ray luminosity, nor with its velocity dispersion, and could be a real evolution with redshift.

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