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早型布里渊星系团星系中的主要干并合

Major Dry-Mergers In Early-Type Brightest Cluster Galaxies

F. S. Liu, Shude Mao, Z. G. Deng, X. Y. Xia, Z. L. Wen

摘要:

我们寻找正在进行的主要干合并在一个精心挑选的样本本地Brilliant集群Galerie(BCGs)的C4集群目录。在515个红移在0.03 ~ 0.12之间的早型BCGs中,有18个处于主要干合并状态,它们被选择为具有$r$ -带星等差$\dm<1.5$和投影间隔$\rp<30$ kpc的对(或三重),并在残差图像中以显著不对称的形式显示出相互作用的特征。我们发现,BCGs在主要干合并的分数增加与丰富的集群,符合这一事实,即丰富的集群通常有更多的大规模(或发光)的BCGs。我们估计,现今早期型BCGs可能经历了平均$\sim 0.6 (\tmerge/0.3\Gyr)^{-1}$主要干合并,并通过这一过程增加了它们的光度(质量)的平均$15% (\tmerge/0.3\Gyr)^{-1} (\fmass/0.5)$以来$z=0.7$,其中$\tmerge$是合并的时间尺度和$\fmass$是平均质量分数的同伴星系添加到中央的。我们还发现,主要的干合并似乎并没有提高在BCG的无线电活动。我们的研究表明,星系团中包含BCGs的主要干合并在本域宇宙中并不罕见,它们是BCGs形成和演化的重要通道。

英文摘要:

We search for ongoing major dry-mergers in a well selected sample of local Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) from the C4 cluster catalogue. 18 out of 515 early-type BCGs with redshift between 0.03 and 0.12 are found to be in major dry-mergers, which are selected as pairs (or triples) with $r$-band magnitude difference $\dm<1.5$ and projected separation $\rp<30$ kpc, and showing signatures of interaction in the form of significant asymmetry in residual images. We find that the fraction of BCGs in major dry-mergers increases with the richness of the clusters, consistent with the fact that richer clusters usually have more massive (or luminous) BCGs. We estimate that present-day early-type BCGs may have experienced on average $\sim 0.6 (\tmerge/0.3\Gyr)^{-1}$ major dry-mergers and through this process increases their luminosity (mass) by $15% (\tmerge/0.3\Gyr)^{-1} (\fmass/0.5)$ on average since $z=0.7$, where $\tmerge$ is the merging timescale and $\fmass$ is the mean mass fraction of companion galaxies added to the central ones. We also find that major dry-mergers do not seem to elevate radio activities in BCGs. Our study shows that major dry-mergers involving BCGs in clusters of galaxies are not rare in the local Universe, and they are an important channel for the formation and evolution of BCGs.

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