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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 573, 期 1, 页码 L9-L12出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/341883
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galaxies : clusters : general; galaxies : fundamental parameters; galaxies : interactions; galaxies : photometry; galaxies : structure
Using photometric and redshift data for the Virgo and Coma Clusters, we present evidence for a correlation between the light concentration of elliptical galaxies (including dwarf ellipticals) and the local three-dimensional (i.e., nonprojected) density of the clusters: more concentrated ellipticals are located in denser regions. The null hypothesis (i.e., the absence of any relation) is rejected at a significance level of better than 99.9%. In order to explain the observed relation, a power law relating the galaxy light concentration and the cluster three-dimensional density is proposed. We study how the projection effects affect the form and dispersion of the data points in the light concentration-projected density diagram. The agreement between our model and the observed data suggests that there is a paucity of dwarf elliptical galaxies in the cluster central regions.
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