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arXiv 0810.2999astro-ph
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早型镓的尺寸

The Sizes of Early-type Galaxies

Joachim Janz, Thorsten Lisker

摘要:

本文利用Sloan数字巡天成像资料研究了室女星系团中475个早型星系的大小光度关系。我们的同质,独立于模型的数据集的分析表明,巨和矮早型星系不形成一个共同的序列,在这种关系。矮星系似乎对光度的依赖很弱,甚至没有依赖,也不属于与巨星系相当陡峭的关系的延伸。在假设光剖面形状随星等连续变化的情况下,可以预期大小和星等的曲线关系。虽然星系总体上大致遵循这一趋势,但我们发现矮星系明显比预测的要大,而低光度巨星则明显比预测的要小。我们得出的结论是,在这个标度关系中,从矮星到巨星没有一个共同的序列,而是一个二分法,不能通过改变轮廓形状来解决。我们的数据的比较,半分析模型支持的想法,这种二分法的物理起源。

英文摘要:

In this letter we present a study of the size luminosity relation of 475 early-type galaxies in the Virgo Cluster with Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data. The analysis of our homogeneous, model-independent data set reveals that giant and dwarf early-type galaxies do not form one common sequence in this relation. The dwarfs seem to show weak or no dependence on luminosity, and do not fall on the extension of the rather steep relation of the giants. Under the assumption that the light profile shape varies continuously with magnitude, a curved relation of size and magnitude would be expected. While the galaxies do roughly follow this trend overall, we find that the dwarf galaxies are significantly larger and the low-luminosity giants are significantly smaller than what is predicted. We come to the conclusion that in this scaling relation there is not one common sequence from dwarfs to giants, but a dichotomy which can not be resolved by varying profile shapes. The comparison of our data to a semi-analytic model supports the idea of a physical origin of this dichotomy.

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