A Deep Halpha Survey of Galaxies in the Two Nearby Clusters Abell1367 and Coma: The Halpha Luminosity Functions

Details A Deep Halpha Survey of Galaxies in the Two Nearby Clusters Abell1367 and Coma: The Halpha Luminosity Functions A Deep Halpha Survey of Galaxies in the Two Nearby Clusters Abell1367 and Coma: The Halpha Luminosity Functions

2002-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201264v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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10.1051/0004-6361:20011830

We present a deep wide field Halpha imaging survey of the central regions of the two nearby clusters of galaxies Coma and Abell1367, taken with the WFC at the INT2.5m telescope. We determine for the first time the Schechter parameters of the Halpha luminosity function (LF) of cluster galaxies. The Halpha LFs of Abell1367 and Coma are compared with each other and with that of Virgo, estimated using the B band LF by Sandage et al. (1985) and a L(Halpha) vs M_B relation. Typical parameters of phi^* ~ 10^0.00+-0.07 Mpc^-3, L^* ~ 10^41.25+- 0.05 erg sec^-1 and alpha ~ -0.70+-0.10 are found for the three clusters. The best fitting parameters of the cluster LFs differ from those found for field galaxies, showing flatter slopes and lower scaling luminosities L^*. Since, however, our Halpha survey is significantly deeper than those of field galaxies, this result must be confirmed on similarly deep measurements of field galaxies. By computing the total SFR per unit volume of cluster galaxies, and taking into account the cluster density in the local Universe, we estimate that the contribution of clusters like Coma and Abell1367 is approximately 0.25% of the SFR per unit volume of the local Universe.

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