A low global star formation rate in the rich galaxy cluster AC114 at z=0.32

Details A low global star formation rate in the rich galaxy cluster AC114 at z=0.32 A low global star formation rate in the rich galaxy cluster AC114 at z=0.32

2000-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010505v1

Astrophys.J.549:820,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ in press, 11 pages, 8 figures, 1 electronic table included in source

Scientific paper

10.1086/319459

We present the results of a wide-field survey for H-alpha emitting galaxies in the cluster AC114 at z=0.32. Spectra centred on H-alpha at the cluster redshift have been obtained for 586 galaxies to I~22 out to a radius around 2Mpc. At most, only ~10% of these were found to be H-alpha-emitting cluster members. These objects are predominantly blue and of late-type spiral morphology, consistent with them hosting star formation. However, ~65% of the cluster members classified morphologically as spirals (with HST), have no detectable H-alpha emission; star-formation and morphological evolution in cluster galaxies appear to be largely decoupled. Changes in the H-alpha detection rate and the strength of H-alpha emission with environment are found to be weak within the region studied. Star formation within the cluster members is also found to be strongly and uniformly suppressed, with the rates inferred from the H-alpha emission not exceeding 4Mo/yr, and AC114's H-alpha luminosity function being an order of magnitude below that observed for field galaxies at the same redshift. None of the galaxies detected have the high star formation rates associated with `starburst' galaxies; however, this may still be reconciliable with the known (8+/-3%) fraction of `post-starburst' galaxies within AC114, given the poorly determined but short lifetimes of starbursts and the possibility that much of the associated star formation is obscured by dust.

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