Galaxy Evolution in the Environment of ABCG 209

Details Galaxy Evolution in the Environment of ABCG 209 Galaxy Evolution in the Environment of ABCG 209

2004-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403556v1

Astron.Astrophys. 425 (2004) 783-796

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in A&A with minor revisions

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20035841

We examine the environmental effects on the photometric properties of galaxies for the rich galaxy cluster ABCG 209 at z=0.209. We use archive CFHT optical imaging of a 42'x28' field centred on the cluster to produce a galaxy sample complete to B=25.0 and R=24.5. Both the composite and red sequence galaxy luminosity functions are found to be dependent on the local galaxy surface density, their faint-end slopes becoming shallower with increasing density. We explain this as a combination of the morphology-density relation, and dwarf galaxies being cannibalised and/or disrupted by the cD galaxy and the ICM in the cluster core. The B-R colour of the red sequence itself appears 0.02mag redder for the highest-density regions, indicative of their stellar populations being marginally (<5%) older or (<20%) more metal-rich. This may be due to the galaxies themselves forming earliest in the rarest overdensities marked by rich clusters, or their star-formation being suppressed earliest by the ICM.

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