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后发座星系团矮星系成员的Keck/LRIS光谱确认

Keck/LRIS Spectroscopic Confirmation of Coma Cluster Dwarf Galaxy Membership Assignments

Kristin Chiboucas, R. Brent Tully, Ronald O. Marzke, Neil Trentham, Henry C. Ferguson, Derek Hammer, David Carter, Habib Khosroshahi

摘要:

Keck/LRIS多目标光谱仪对后发座星系团核心区的140个最低和最高表面亮度的暗(19 < R < 22)矮星系候选者进行了测量。这些光谱被用来测量红移,并建立这些微弱的矮种群的成员资格。低表面亮度样本的主要目标是测试我们使用形态和表面亮度标准区分后发座星系团成员和背景星系的能力,使用高分辨率HST/ACS图像。候选人被评为预期成员,不确定,或预期的背景。从93个光谱中识别出51个矮星系成员和20个背景星系。我们的形态成员估计成功率为100%的对象,预计将成为成员和优于90%的星系预计将在背景中。我们确认,低表面亮度是一个很好的指标集群成员。高表面亮度星系几乎总是背景与混乱所产生的情况下,只有罕见的紧凑的椭圆星系。在中等表面亮度下出现更多问题的情况。这些星系中的许多都被赋予了不确定的成员评级,并且这些星系被发现是成员的时间约为一半。包括颜色信息将改进成员资格确定,但是对于在仅使用表面亮度和形态标准时已经被错误识别的一些相同对象将失败。具有B-V色的紧凑椭圆星系,特别是红色序列红向0.2等,需要光谱跟踪。在47个高表面亮度的样本中,有19个物体的红移使它们位于后发座星系团中。红移测量和使用间接手段建立集群成员进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

Keck/LRIS multi-object spectroscopy has been carried out on 140 of some of the lowest and highest surface brightness faint (19 < R < 22) dwarf galaxy candidates in the core region of the Coma Cluster. These spectra are used to measure redshifts and establish membership for these faint dwarf populations. The primary goal of the low surface brightness sample is to test our ability to use morphological and surface brightness criteria to distinguish between Coma Cluster members and background galaxies using high resolution HST/ACS images. Candidates were rated as expected members, uncertain, or expected background. From 93 spectra, 51 dwarf galaxy members and 20 background galaxies are identified. Our morphological membership estimation success rate is ~100% for objects expected to be members and better than ~90% for galaxies expected to be in the background. We confirm that low surface brightness is a very good indicator of cluster membership. High surface brightness galaxies are almost always background with confusion arising only from the cases of the rare compact elliptical galaxies. The more problematic cases occur at intermediate surface brightness. Many of these galaxies are given uncertain membership ratings, and these were found to be members about half of the time. Including color information will improve membership determination but will fail for some of the same objects that are already mis-identified when using only surface brightness and morphology criteria. Compact elliptical galaxies with B-V colors ~0.2 magnitudes redward of the red sequence in particular require spectroscopic follow-up. In a sample of 47 high surface brightness, UCD candidates, 19 objects have redshifts which place them in the Coma Cluster. Redshift measurements are presented and the use of indirect means for establishing cluster membership is discussed.

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