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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 543, 期 1, 页码 131-148出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/317074
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galaxies : evolution; galaxies : photometry; gravitational lensing
Most gravitational lenses are early-type galaxies in relatively low density environments-a field rather than a cluster population. Their average properties are the mass-averaged properties of all early-type galaxies. We show that held early-type galaxies with 0 < z < 1, as represented by the lens galaxies, lie on the same fundamental plane as those in rich clusters at similar redshifts. We then use the fundamental plane to measure the combined evolutionary and K-corrections for early-type galaxies in the V, I, and H bands. Only for passively evolving stellar populations formed at z(f) greater than or similar to 2 (H-0 = 65 km s(-1) Mpc(-1), Omega (0), = 0.3, lambda (0) = 0.7) can the lens galaxies be matched to the local fundamental plane. The high formation epoch and the lack of significant differences between the held and cluster populations contradict many current models of the formation history of early-type galaxies. Lens galaxy colors and the fundamental plane provide good photometric redshift estimates with an empirical accuracy of [z(FP) - z(l)]= -0.04 +/- 0.09 for the 20 lenses with known redshifts. A mass model dominated by dark matter is more consistent with the data than either an isotropic or radially anisotropic constant MIL mass model, and a radially anisotropic model is better than an isotropic model.
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