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Antlia星系团中的星系群-- III。暗早型星系的性质

Galaxy populations in the Antlia cluster - III. Properties of faint early-type galaxies

Analia V. Smith Castelli, Sergio A. Cellone, Favio R. Faifer, Lilia P. Bassino, Tom Richtler, Gisela A. Romero, Juan Pablo Calderon, Juan Pablo Caso

摘要:

(Abridge)我们提出了一个新的分析的早期类型的星系人口在中央区域的Antlia集群,重点是微弱的系统,如矮椭圆(dE)和矮球体(dSph)。利用GEMINI-GMOS谱和MAGELLAN-MIKE谱确认了22个早型星系为Antlia成员。其中,2颗属于罕见的紧凑椭圆星系(cE),5颗是以前从未被编目的新暗矮星。此外,我们提出了16个新发现的低表面亮度星系候选者,其中几乎一半显示的形态与Antlia的本星系群dSphs相一致,这将我们研究的微弱光度限制扩展到MB = -10.1(BT = 22.6)mag.我们在华盛顿测光系统中建立了一个改进的CMR,即积分T1星等与(C-T1)颜色,其将\sim 4等向光谱学证实的Antlia成员的极限延伸。当只考虑已确认的早型成员时,这种关系在光度上延伸到10等以上,在其暗淡的一端,斜率没有明显的变化,色散也没有增加。内在的颜色散射的关系与其他星系团的报告相比,我们认为,它很可能是大的散射的CMR,通常在微弱的幅度报告,主要是由于光度误差以及不正确的成员/形态分类。的光度与平均有效表面亮度的关系在明亮和暗淡的两端的不同行为进行了分析,而它被证实,在同一关系的dE星系提出了一个非常相似的有效半径,无论它们的颜色。成员样本的投影空间分布证实了Antlia中存在两个群体,每个群体都由一个巨大的椭圆星系主导,并且每个巨星附近都有一个cE。

英文摘要:

(Abridge) We present a new analysis of the early-type galaxy population in the central region of the Antlia cluster, focusing on the faint systems like dwarf ellipticals (dE) and dwarf spheroidals (dSph). We confirm 22 early-type galaxies as Antlia members, using GEMINI-GMOS and MAGELLAN-MIKE spectra. Among them, 2 belong to the rare type of compact ellipticals (cE), and 5 are new faint dwarfs that had never been catalogued before. In addition, we present 16 newly identified low surface brightness galaxy candidates, almost half of them displaying morphologies consistent with being Antlia's counterparts of Local Group dSphs, that extend the faint luminosity limit of our study down to MB = -10.1 (BT = 22.6) mag. We built an improved CMR in the Washington photometric system, i.e. integrated T1 magnitudes versus (C - T1) colours, which extends \sim 4 mag faintwards the limit of spectroscopically confirmed Antlia members. When only confirmed early-type members are considered, this relation extends over 10 mag in luminosity with no apparent change in slope or increase in colour dispersion towards its faint end. The intrinsic colour scatter of the relation is compared with those reported for other clusters of galaxies; we argue that it is likely that the large scatter of the CMR, usually reported at faint magnitudes, is mostly due to photometric errors along with an improper membership/morphological classification. The distinct behaviour of the luminosity versus mean effective surface brightness relation at the bright and faint ends is analyzed, while it is confirmed that dE galaxies on the same relation present a very similar effective radius, regardless of their colour. The projected spatial distribution of the member sample confirms the existence of two groups in Antlia, each one dominated by a giant elliptical galaxy and with one cE located close to each giant.

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