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RX J1548 .9+0851,一个化石群?

RX J1548.9+0851, a fossil cluster?

P. Eigenthaler, W. W. Zeilinger

摘要:

化石星系群是空间上扩展的X射线源,其X射线光度高于L_X,bol > 10^42 h_50^-2 ergs ^-1,一个中央椭圆星系在光学波段占主导地位,第二亮的星系在R波段至少要暗2星等。这些系统是否是一个独特的类别的对象所产生的特殊的形成和演化历史仍然不清楚,主要是由于少数的对象研究到目前为止,大多缺乏光谱的组成员的组成员确认和详细的运动学分析。为了补充光谱研究化石的稀缺样本,直到它们微弱的星系群,这项工作中研究了化石候选者RX J1548.9+0851(z=0.072)。我们的研究结果进行了比较,从化石文献中的现有数据。我们利用ESO VLT VIMOS多天体光谱测量了暗星系群的红移,并研究了系统的光度加权动力学和光度函数。全光谱拟合包ULySS用于确定群成员的年龄和金属丰度。VIMOS成像数据被用来研究中央椭圆的形态。我们确定了40组成员的光谱范围内的中央~300 kpc的系统,并找到31个额外的红移从文献中,在1兆秒差距内的54个光谱确认的组成员的总数。RX J1548.9+0851是由两个位于中心区域的明亮椭圆星系组成,在SDSS r'波段的星等差为m_1,2 = 1.34,因此RX J1548.9+0851的化石定义取决于维里半径的假设。我们发现该系统的光度加权速度色散为568 km/s,质量约为2.5 x 10^14 M_sun,这证实了先前的研究结果,即化石是巨大的。(节略)

英文摘要:

Fossil galaxy groups are spatially extended X-ray sources with X-ray luminosities above L_X,bol > 10^42 h_50^-2 ergs s^-1 and a central elliptical galaxy dominating the optical, the second-brightest galaxy being at least 2 magnitudes fainter in the R band. Whether these systems are a distinct class of objects resulting from exceptional formation and evolution histories is still unclear, mainly due to the small number of objects studied so far, mostly lacking spectroscopy of group members for group membership confirmation and a detailed kinematical analysis. To complement the scarce sample of spectroscopically studied fossils down to their faint galaxy populations, the fossil candidate RX J1548.9+0851 (z=0.072) is studied in this work. Our results are compared with existing data from fossils in the literature. We use ESO VLT VIMOS multi-object spectroscopy to determine redshifts of the faint galaxy population and study the luminosity-weighted dynamics and luminosity function of the system. The full-spectrum fitting package ULySS is used to determine ages and metallicities of group members. VIMOS imaging data are used to study the morphology of the central elliptical. We identify 40 group members spectroscopically within the central ~300 kpc of the system and find 31 additional redshifts from the literature, resulting in a total number of 54 spectroscopically confirmed group members within 1 Mpc. RX J1548.9+0851 is made up of two bright ellipticals in the central region with a magnitude gap of m_1,2 = 1.34 in the SDSS r' band leaving the definition of RX J1548.9+0851 being a fossil to the assumption of the virial radius. We find a luminosity-weighted velocity dispersion of 568 km s^-1 and a mass of ~2.5 x 10^14 M_sun for the system confirming previous studies that revealed fossils to be massive. (abridged)

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