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arXiv 0812.2088astro-ph
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星系团环境中星系团的相互作用

Interactions of Galaxies in the Galaxy Cluster Environment

Changbom Park, Ho Seong Hwang

摘要:

利用与Abell星系团有关的SDSS星系,研究了星系性质对星系团中心半径和最近邻星系所处环境的依赖性。我们发现,存在着一个特征尺度,在这个尺度上,星系的性质突然开始依赖于在固定近邻环境下的星系团中心半径。特征尺度是$1\sim 3$乘以星系团维里半径,视星系光度而定。特征尺度的存在意味着局部星系数密度并不直接影响星系团的形态-密度关系,因为局部密度随团心半径的变化是平滑的,一般没有不连续性。集群中真正起作用的是形态-集群中心半径-邻居环境关系,其中邻居环境意味着邻居形态和归因于邻居的局部质量密度。形态-密度关系的出现仅仅是因为最近邻距离和局部星系数密度之间的统计相关性。我们发现强有力的证据表明,与邻近早型星系的流体动力学相互作用是晚型星系团中恒星形成活动淬灭的主要驱动力。炽热的星系团气体似乎在星系团维里半径的十分之一以下起着最小的作用。我们还发现,可行的机制,可以解释的结构和内部运动学参数的星系团中心半径的依赖性的骚扰和相互作用的星系团潜力。晚型星系团的形态转变似乎是通过星系-星系流体动力学相互作用和星系-星系团/星系-星系引力相互作用共同实现的。

英文摘要:

We study the dependence of galaxy properties on the clustercentric radius and the environment attributed to the nearest neighbor galaxy using the SDSS galaxies associated with the Abell galaxy clusters. We find that there exists a characteristic scale where the properties of galaxies suddenly start to depend on the clustercentric radius at fixed neighbor environment. The characteristic scale is $1\sim 3$ times the cluster virial radius depending on galaxy luminosity. Existence of the characteristic scale means that the local galaxy number density is not directly responsible for the morphology-density relation in clusters because the local density varies smoothly with the clustercentric radius and has no discontinuity in general. What is really working in clusters is the morphology-clustercentric radius-neighbor environment relation, where the neighbor environment means both neighbor morphology and the local mass density attributed to the neighbor. The morphology-density relation appears working only because of the statistical correlation between the nearest neighbor distance and the local galaxy number density. We find strong evidence that the hydrodynamic interactions with nearby early-type galaxies is the main drive to quenching star formation activity of late-type galaxies in clusters. The hot cluster gas seems to play at most a minor role down to one tenth of the cluster virial radius. We also find that the viable mechanisms which can account for the clustercentric radius dependence of the structural and internal kinematics parameters are harassment and interaction of galaxies with the cluster potential. The morphology transformation of the late-type galaxies in clusters seems to have taken place through both galaxy-galaxy hydrodynamic interactions and galaxy-cluster/galaxy-galaxy gravitational interactions.

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