The low-luminosity galaxy population in the NGC 5044 Group

Details The low-luminosity galaxy population in the NGC 5044 Group The low-luminosity galaxy population in the NGC 5044 Group

2004-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410463v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 356 (2005) 41-53

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 6 figures, uses mn2e.cls. To be published in MNRAS. For more info, full-resolution paper and colour figures see ht

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08422.x

We present multicolour imaging for 33 dwarf and intermediate-luminosity galaxies in the field of the NGC 5044 Group, complemented with mid-resolution spectroscopy for a subsample of 13 objects. With these data, a revised membership and morphological classification is made for the galaxies in the sample. We were able to confirm all but one of the "definite members" included in the spectroscopic subsample, which were originally classified based on morphological criteria; however, an important fraction of background galaxies is probably present among "likely" and "possible" members. The presence of a nucleus could be detected in just five out of the nine galaxies originally classified as dE,N, thus confirming the intrisic difficulty of photographic-plate morphological classification for this kind of object. Our deep surface photometry provided clear evidences for disc structure in at least three galaxies previously catalogued as dE or dS0. Their transition-type properties are also evident from the colour-magnitude diagram, where they lie near the late-type galaxies locus, suggesting an evolutionary connection between a parent disc-galaxy population and at least part of present-day dEs. Six new dSph candidates were also found, most of them at small projected distances from NGC 5044, the central galaxy of the Group. The NGC 5044 Group appears clearly defined in redshift space, with a mean heliocentric radial velocity, =2461 +/- 84 km/s (z=0.0082), and a moderate dispersion, \sigma_{v_r}=431 km/s. Our data show no luminosity segregation for early-type galaxies: both dwarf and bright E/S0 systems show very similar velocity distributions (\sigma_{v_r} ~ 290 km/s), in contrast to late-type galaxies that seem to display a broader distribution (\sigma_{v_r} ~ 680 km/s).

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