期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 689, 期 1, 页码 L25-L28出版社
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DOI: 10.1086/595720
关键词
galaxies: clusters: individual (Virgo Cluster); galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: fundamental parameters
资金
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
In this letter we present a study of the size luminosity relation of 475 early-type galaxies in the Virgo Cluster with Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data. The analysis of our homogeneous, model-independent data set reveals that giant and dwarf early-type galaxies do not form one common sequence in this relation. The dwarfs seem to show weak or no dependence on luminosity, and do not fall on the extension of the rather steep relation of the giants. Under the assumption that the light profile shape varies continuously with magnitude, a curved relation of size and magnitude would be expected. While the galaxies do roughly follow this trend overall, we find that the dwarf galaxies are significantly larger and the low-luminosity giants are significantly smaller than what is predicted. We come to the conclusion that in this scaling relation there is not one common sequence from dwarfs to giants, but a dichotomy that cannot be resolved by varying profile shapes. The comparison of our data to a semianalytic model supports the idea of a physical origin for this dichotomy.
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