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Photometric Properties of Low-Redshift Galaxy Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

W. A. Barkhouse
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, 60 Saint George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H8, Canada
H. K. C. Yee
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, 60 Saint George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H8, Canada
O. López-Cruz
Affiliation:
INAOE-Tonantzintla, Tonantzintla Pue. Mexico

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A recent comprehensive photometric survey of 45 low-z X-ray selected Abell clusters (López-Cruz 1997) has measured significant variations in the faint end slope of the luminosity function (LF). This result indicates that dwarf galaxies (dGs) comprise a different fraction of the cluster population as a function cluster environment. Clusters having a central “cD-like” galaxy have a flatter faint end slope than non-cD clusters. Also, cD clusters were found to have a dwarf-to-giant ratio (D/ G) which was smaller than non-cD clusters. López-Cruz et al. (1997) has suggested that the light contained in cD envelopes can be accounted for by assuming that it is produced from stars that originally formed dGs. In this simple model, the D/ G would be expected to increase with radial distance from the cluster centre due to the decrease in the disruptive forces.

Type
Part XII: Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2005 

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