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E + S星系对:它们是化石群的前身吗?

E+S galaxy pairs: are they the precursors of fossil groups?

R. Grützbauch, F. Annibali, R. Rampazzo, W. W. Zeilinger

摘要:

星系对可能代表了从贫穷的星系群到巨大的孤立椭圆星系(或化石星系群)的进化道路上的一个中途站。为了验证这一演化假设,我们研究了由一个巨大的椭圆星系和它的螺旋伴星组成的4个星系对的环境。从光学和动力学的角度来看,这两个对非常相似,但具有非常不同的X射线特性。VIMOS在VLT上观测到了这对星系周围的微弱星系群。这些观测结果表明,IGM的扩展扩散X射线辐射的存在并不一定与众多微弱星系群的存在有关。光度函数(LF)的研究表明,我们的X射线发光对更动态地演变比样品的穷人组从文献中的X射线光度可比。然而,我们的X射线暗对类似于那些X射线亮群的LF,并且可能代表这些群的动力学演化中的一个阶段,其中涉及对E的最近或正在进行的相互作用已经破坏或至少降低了IGM的亮度。X射线暗弱群的LF也与它们演化为化石群的过程相一致。

英文摘要:

Galaxy pairs may represent a way station in the evolutionary path from poor groups to giant isolated ellipticals (or fossil groups). To test this evolutionary scenario, we investigated the environment of 4 galaxy pairs composed of a giant elliptical galaxy and its spiral companion. The pairs are very similar from the optical and dynamical point of view, but have very different X-ray properties. The faint galaxy population around the pairs was observed with VIMOS on the VLT. These observations show that the presence of extended diffuse X-ray emission from an IGM is not necessarily connected to the presence of a numerous faint galaxy population. The study of luminosity functions (LFs) indicate that our X-ray luminous pairs are more dynamically evolved than a sample of poor groups with comparable X-ray luminosities from the literature. However, our X-ray faint pairs resemble the LF of those X-ray bright groups and may represent a phase in the dynamical evolution of these groups, where the recent or ongoing interaction, in which the pair E is involved, has destroyed or at least decreased the luminosity of the IGM. The X-ray faint groups' LF is also consitent with their evolution into a fossil group.

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