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色矢量和色-星等关系:Sloan数字巡天中Brilliant星团Galerkin和E/S0 Galerkin的不同性质

Colour Gradients and the Colour-Magnitude Relation: Different Properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and E/S0 Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Nathan Roche, Mariangela Bernardi, Joseph Hyde

摘要:

我们研究了斯隆数字巡天中约5000个布里渊星系团星系(BCGs)的色-星等关系,并与非BCGE/S 0星系进行了比较。BCGs的颜色-星等和颜色-sigma(速度色散)关系的斜率比非BCG E/S 0的更平坦(大约是2倍),BCGs也倾向于在g-r上红0.01个星等。我们调查径向颜色梯度在这两个样品中,使用的比率的de Vaucouleurs半径在g和r波段。我们发现BCGs有显着平坦(23%)的平均颜色梯度比其他高亮度E/S 0。在早型星系中,颜色梯度在中等亮度Mr=-22时最强。E/S 0 s的颜色梯度随半径增加(直到10 kpc),并与10 sigma + Mr(相对于光度的速度色散)和质量密度呈负相关。梯度也倾向于随着恒星年龄的增加而减小。这些趋势在BCGs中很弱或看不到,其中平均颜色梯度很低,无论其他属性如何。我们讨论了可能的解释,其中涉及大量的干合并的形成历史的BCGs。

英文摘要:

We examine the colour-magnitude relation of approximately 5000 Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and compare with non-BCG E/S0 galaxies. The colour-magnitude and colour-sigma (velocity dispersion) relations are flatter in slope (by a factor of about 2) for BCGs than for non-BCG E/S0s, and the BCGs also tend to be redder by 0.01 magnitudes in g-r. We investigate radial colour gradients in both samples, using the ratio of the de Vaucouleurs radii in the g and r bands. We find BCGs have significantly flatter (by 23%) mean colour gradients than other high luminosity E/S0s. In early-type galaxies, the colour gradients are strongest at intermediate luminosities of Mr=-22. Colour gradients in E/S0s increase with radius (up to 10kpc) and are negatively correlated with 10sigma + Mr (velocity dispersion relative to luminosity) and with mass density. The gradients also tend to decrease with increasing stellar age. These trends are weak or not seen in BCGs, in which the mean colour gradient is low whatever the other properties. We discuss possible explanations, which involve a greater amount of dry merging in the formation history of the BCGs.

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