| Issue |
A&A
Volume 504, Number 2, September III 2009
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 347 - 358 | |
| Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200811504 | |
| Published online | 02 July 2009 | |
Galaxy properties in clusters: dependence on the environment and the cluster identification techniques*
1
Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental IATE, CONICET, Laprida 922, X5000BGR, Córdoba, Argentina e-mail: [vcoenda;hernan]@.mail.oac.uncor.edu
2
Observatorio Astronómico, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Laprida 854, X5000BGR, Córdoba, Argentina
Received:
11
December
2008
Accepted:
10
June
2009
Aims. We investigate the dependence of several galaxy properties on the environment and cluster identification techniques.
Methods. We select clusters of galaxies from two catalogues based on the SDSS: the ROSAT-SDSS galaxy cluster survey, which is an X-ray selected cluster sample and the MaxBCG catalogue, in which clusters are optically selected. Based on a volume limited sample of galaxies drawn from the spectroscopic DR5 SDSS, we constructed sub-samples of clusters of galaxies with more than ten members. Scaling relations as well as segregation of galaxy properties as a function of the normalized clustocentric radii are analyzed. The properties of galaxies in clusters are compared with those of field galaxies.
Results. Galaxies in X-ray and MaxBCG selected clusters show similar size-luminosity relations. At equal
luminosity, late type galaxies in the field have sizes smaller than cluster
galaxies of the same morphological type.
The Faber-Jackson relation for early-type galaxies in clusters is also the same for X-ray selected
and MaxBCG clusters. We found clear differences between the dynamical properties of galaxies in
clusters, the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and field galaxies.
Using several criteria to classify galaxies into morphological types, we reproduce the well
know morphological segregation. The correlation is up to 
. For the whole range
of clustocentric distances, X-ray selected clusters present a higher fraction of early type galaxies
than MaxBCG clusters. We also found that bright galaxies preferentially inhabit the cluster centers.
Median sizes of galaxies, such as the radius that encloses 
of Petrosian flux r50, present a behaviour that also depends on the cluster selection criteria.
For galaxies in X-ray selected clusters, median values of r50 decrease as 
goes to zero,
whereas the opposite is observed for galaxies in the MaxBCG clusters. These different behaviours are
mainly due to early type galaxies.
The results are discussed in terms of the different processes that affect the evolution of
galaxies in different environments.
Key words: galaxies: clusters / catalogs / general / galaxies: fundamental parameters / X-rays: galaxies: clusters
© ESO, 2009
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