A Potential Galaxy Threshing System in the Cosmos Field

Details A Potential Galaxy Threshing System in the Cosmos Field A Potential Galaxy Threshing System in the Cosmos Field

2006-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612351v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 7 figures, accepted for the COSMOS special issue of ApJS

Scientific paper

10.1086/516581

We report on the discovery of a new potential galaxy threshing system in the COSMOS 2 square degree field using the prime-focus camera, Suprime-Cam, on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope. This system consists of a giant elliptical galaxy with $M_V \approx -21.6$ and a tidally disrupted satellite galaxy with $M_V \approx -17.7$ at a photometric redshift of $z \approx 0.08$. This redshift is consistent with the spectroscopic redshift of 0.079 for the giant elliptical galaxy obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) archive. The luminosity masses of the two galaxies are $3.7 \times 10^{12} \cal{M}_{\odot}$ and $3.1 \times 10^{9} \cal{M}_{\odot}$, respectively. The distance between the two galaxies is greater than 100 kpc. The two tidal tails emanating from the satellite galaxy extend over 150 kpc. This system would be the second well-defined galaxy threshing system found so far.

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