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Arms pattern speed of galaxies in clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

I. Rodrigues
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física, UFRGS, cp: 15051, cep: 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Brazil email: [email protected]
H. Dottori
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física, UFRGS, cp: 15051, cep: 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Brazil email: [email protected]
D. Reichert
Affiliation:
Instituto de Física, UFRGS, cp: 15051, cep: 91501-970, Porto Alegre, Brazil email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Disks of galaxies in clusters are deeply affected by interactions. We investigate the pattern speed of galaxies in cluster in order to detect a possible dependence with cluster environmental parameters, such as galaxies density. If the perturbation of cluster galaxies is mainly produced by the interaction with the cluster ambient, the pattern speed might well depend on the history of the galaxy orbit within the cluster. Tremaine & Weinberg (1984) method is applied to 2-D Hα velocity fields, reconstructed from the isovelocity contours published by Amram et al. (1992), and 2-MASS K–band images (Skrutskie 2001) to obtain spirals pattern angular speed. The use of K–band images and Hα velocity maps is justified by the fact that the perturbations imprinted in Hα velocity maps are produced by the old stellar population which emits most of its energy in the near-IR. We analyzed Pegasus I cluster galaxies NGC 7593, NGC 7631 and NGC 7643 (this one shown in Figure 1). Preliminary results indicates that NGC 7593 presents a pattern speed Ωp sin(i) = 18 ± 5km s−1 kpc−1, (inclination i = 51°) while NGC 7631 and NGC 7643 pattern speeds are Ωp sin(i) = 21 ± 4 km s−1 kpc−1 and Ωp sin(i) = 35 ± 3 km s−1 kpc−1 (inclinations i = 64° and 59° respectively). In the three successful cases the correlation coefficients in the 〈X〉 vs 〈V〉 plots are 0.94, 0.95 and 0.98 respectively. We are presently analyzing other galaxies in the cluster.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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