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英仙座星系团核心的一群微弱的低表面亮度星系

A population of faint low surface brightness galaxies in the Perseus cluster core

Carolin Wittmann, Thorsten Lisker, Liyualem Ambachew Tilahun, Eva K. Grebel, Christopher J. Conselice, Samantha Penny, Joachim Janz, John S. Gallagher, Ralf Kotulla, James McCormac

摘要:

我们提出了89个低表面亮度(LSB),因此低恒星密度星系候选人在英仙座星系团的核心,被称为“超扩散星系”,与平均有效的V-波段表面亮度24.8-27.1弧秒$^{-2}$,总V-波段星等-11.8至-15.5等,和半光半径0.7-4.1千秒差距的检测。候选者已经在覆盖0.3平方度的深马赛克中被确定,基于威廉赫歇尔望远镜获得的宽视场成像数据。我们发现,LSB星系人口耗尽的集群中心,只有很少的LSB候选人的半光半径大于3千秒差距。这似乎与它们的潮汐半径的估计一致,即使我们假设暗物质含量很高(M/L=100),潮汐半径也不会超过恒星的范围。事实上,我们的三个候选者似乎与潮汐流有关,这表明他们目前的混乱。考虑到已发表的后发座星系团中微弱LSB候选者的数据-其中心密度与英仙座相当-显示核心区域同样缺乏大型物体,我们得出结论,这些物体无法在大质量星系团中心的强潮汐中幸存下来。

英文摘要:

We present the detection of 89 low surface brightness (LSB), and thus low stellar density galaxy candidates in the Perseus cluster core, of the kind named "ultra-diffuse galaxies", with mean effective V-band surface brightnesses 24.8-27.1 mag arcsec$^{-2}$, total V-band magnitudes -11.8 to -15.5 mag, and half-light radii 0.7-4.1 kpc. The candidates have been identified in a deep mosaic covering 0.3 square degrees, based on wide-field imaging data obtained with the William Herschel Telescope. We find that the LSB galaxy population is depleted in the cluster centre and only very few LSB candidates have half-light radii larger than 3 kpc. This appears consistent with an estimate of their tidal radius, which does not reach beyond the stellar extent even if we assume a high dark matter content (M/L=100). In fact, three of our candidates seem to be associated with tidal streams, which points to their current disruption. Given that published data on faint LSB candidates in the Coma cluster - with its comparable central density to Perseus - show the same dearth of large objects in the core region, we conclude that these cannot survive the strong tides in the centres of massive clusters.

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