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A New Look at Poor Groups of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Ann I. Zabludoff
Ann I. Zabludoff*
Affiliation:
UCO/Lick Observatory and Astronomy Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Abstract

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We use a new fiber spectroscopic survey of 12 nearby, poor groups of galaxies to examine the dynamics and evolution of galaxies in these common, but poorly studied, environments. Some of our conclusions are: (1) The nine groups in our sample with diffuse X-ray emission are in fact bound systems with at least 20-50 group members with absolute magnitudes as faint as MB ~ −14 + 5 log10h. (2) Galaxies in each X-ray-detected group have not all merged together because a significant fraction of the group mass lies outside of the galaxies and in a common halo, thereby reducing the rate of galaxy-galaxy interactions. (3) The similarity of the recent star formation histories and the fraction of early type galaxies in some poor groups to those in rich clusters suggest that cluster-specific environmental effects may not play a dominant role in the recent evolution of cluster galaxies. The evolution of group and cluster members may be driven instead by galaxy-galaxy interactions, which are likely to occur with equal frequency in field groups and in groups that have recently fallen into clusters (i.e., subclusters).

Type
Part 4. Morphology, Kinematics and Dynamics
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 192: The Stellar Content of Local Group Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 433 - 439
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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