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Galaxy morphologies and environment in the Abell 901/902 supercluster from COMBO-17

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11809.x

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galaxies : clusters : general; galaxies : evolution; galaxies : interactions

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We present a morphological study of galaxies in the A901/902 supercluster from the COMBO-17 survey. A total of 570 galaxies with photometric redshifts in the range 0.155 < z(phot) < 0.185 are visually classified by three independent classifiers to M-V = -18. These morphological classifications are compared to local galaxy density, distance from the nearest cluster centre, local surface mass density from weak lensing and photometric classification. At high local galaxy densities log Sigma(10) Mpc(-2) > 1.5 a classical morphology-density relation is found. A correlation is also found between morphology and local projected surface mass density, but no trend is observed with distance to the nearest cluster. This supports the finding that local environment is more important to galaxy morphology than global cluster properties. The breakdown of the morphological catalogue by colour shows a dominance of blue galaxies in the galaxies displaying late-type morphologies and a corresponding dominance of red galaxies in the early-type population. Using the 17-band photometry from COMBO-17, we further split the supercluster red sequence into old passive galaxies and galaxies with young stars and dust. We find that the dusty star-forming population describes an intermediate morphological group between late- and early-type galaxies, supporting the hypothesis that field and group spiral galaxies are transformed into S0s and, perhaps, ellipticals during cluster infall.

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