Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-03-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, no figures, Proc. ESO Workshop "Groups of galaxies in the nearby Universe", Santiago, Chile, 5-9 Dec. 2005, ESO Astro
Scientific paper
We use various samples of compact groups (CGs) to examine the types of association CGs have with rich and poor clusters of galaxies at low (z~0.04) and intermediate (z~0.1) redshifts. We find that ~10-20 % of CGs are associated with rich clusters and a much larger fraction with poorer clusters or loose groups. Considering the incompleteness of catalogs of poorer systems at intermediate redshift, our result is consistent with all CGs at intermediate redshift being associated with larger-scale systems. The richness of the clusters associated with CGs significantly increases from z~0.04 to z~0.1, while their Bautz-Morgan type changes from early to late type for the same range in z. Neither trend is compatible with a selection effect in the cluster catalogs used. We find earlier morphological types of galaxies to be more frequent in CGs associated with larger-scale structures, compared to those in CGs not associated to such structures. We consider this as new evidence that CGs are part of the large-scale structure formation process and that they may play an important role in the evolution of galaxies in these structures.
Andernach Heinz
Coziol Roger
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