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M87晕的边缘和室女星系团核漫射光的运动学

The edge of the M87 halo and the kinematics of the diffuse light in the Virgo cluster core

Michelle Doherty, Magda Arnaboldi, Payel Das, Ortwin Gerhard, J. Alfonso L. Aguerri, Robin Ciardullo, John J. Feldmeier, Kenneth C. Freeman, George H. Jacoby, Giuseppe Murante

摘要:

我们提出了高分辨率的火焰/VLT光谱的星团内行星状星云(IPN)的候选人,针对三个新领域的室女星系团核心的表面亮度下降到mu_B = 28.5。基于投影相空间信息,我们将旧的和12个新确认的PN分为星系和团内成分。M87 PN被限制在M87的扩展恒星包层中,投影半径约为160 kpc,而ICPN则分散在M87和M86之间的整个测量区域。在投影半径为60 kpc和144 kpc的M87 PNs上测定的速度色散表明,星系的速度色散曲线在外晕中减小,下降到78 +/- 25 km/s。在X射线辐射追踪的引力势中,M87晕星的Jeans模型仅在恒星轨道具有强径向各向异性(β = 0.4,在r = 10 kpc处增加到0.8,在外缘),并且在平均椭圆半径约为150 kpc处截断时才符合观测到的速度色散剖面。根据ICPN的空间和速度分布,我们推断M87和M86正朝着彼此落下,我们可能在第一次近距离通过之前观察到它们。推断的M87晕和ICL的光度特定PN数在古老(> 10 Gyr)恒星星族观测值的范围内(略)。

英文摘要:

We present high resolution FLAMES/VLT spectroscopy of intracluster planetary nebula (ICPN) candidates, targeting three new fields in the Virgo cluster core with surface brightness down to mu_B = 28.5. Based on the projected phase space information we separate the old and 12 newly-confirmed PNs into galaxy and intracluster components. The M87 PNs are confined to the extended stellar envelope of M87, within a projected radius of ~ 160 kpc, while the ICPNs are scattered across the whole surveyed region between M87 and M86. The velocity dispersions determined from the M87 PNs at projected radii of 60 kpc and 144 kpc show that the galaxy's velocity dispersion profile decreases in the outer halo, down to 78 +/- 25 km/s. A Jeans model for the M87 halo stars in the gravitational potential traced by the X-ray emission fits the observed velocity dispersion profile only if the stellar orbits are strongly radially anisotropic (beta ~= 0.4 at r ~= 10 kpc increasing to 0.8 at the outer edge), and if additionally the stellar halo is truncated at ~= 150 kpc average elliptical radius. From the spatial and velocity distribution of the ICPNs we infer that M87 and M86 are falling towards each other and that we may be observing them just before the first close pass. The inferred luminosity-specific PN numbers for the M87 halo and the ICL are in the range of values observed for old (> 10 Gyr) stellar populations (abridged).

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