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Morphology of E+A Galaxies in CL0016+16 (z=0.54)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Gregory Wirth
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Paola Belloni
Affiliation:
Universitätssternwarte, Scheinerstraße 1, 81698 München

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We present new results on the morphology of member galaxies in the distant cluster C10016+16 from HST images (WFCl). Based on narrow multiband ground-based photometry and spectra obtained with the Keck 10 m telescope we identify 7 new cluster members which appear to have strong Balmer absorption features but no detectable emission lines, doubling the number of such galaxies previously observed with HST in this cluster. These candidate E+A galaxies have been identified in other distant clusters, but the morphology of this population has appeared bulge-like in AC114 (Couch et al., 1994, ApJ 430, 107) and disk-like or irregular and interacting in C10939+47 and C10016+16 (Wirth et al., 1994 ApJ 435, L105). By means of the image concentration index as a quantitative measure of morphology we show that our enlarged sample of E+A objects in C10016+16 now contains some galaxies resembling bulge systems as well as the previously-identified disk-like objects. The observed heterogeneity suggests that both galaxy mergers (rapidly resulting in an r 1/4 profile) and ram-pressure stripping of isolated late-type systems may originate E+A objects.

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Poster Papers
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