A photometric and spectroscopic study of dwarf and giant galaxies in the Coma cluster -- III. Spectral ages and metallicities

Details A photometric and spectroscopic study of dwarf and giant galaxies in the Coma cluster -- III. Spectral ages and metallicities A photometric and spectroscopic study of dwarf and giant galaxies in the Coma cluster -- III. Spectral ages and metallicities

2001-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107158v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

changes in sec.4.6, abstract, conclusions. ApJ in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/323217

(abr.) We present the analysis of the spectroscopic catalog of galaxies in the Coma cluster from Mobasher et al. This catalog comprises ~300 spectra of cluster members with magnitudes M_B=-20.5 to -14 in two areas of ~1 X 1.5 Mpc towards the center and the SW region of the cluster. In this paper the analysis is restricted to the 257 galaxies with no emission lines in their spectra. The strength of the age-sensitive indices is found to correlate with galaxy magnitude over the whole magnitude range. Similarly, the metallicity-sensitive indices anticorrelate with magnitude. By comparing the observed indices with model grids based on the Padova isochrones, we derive luminosity-weighted ages and metallicities. We present the distributions of ages and metallicities for galaxies in various magnitude bins. The mean metallicity decreases with galaxy magnitude and, at a given luminosity, appears to be generally lower for galaxies in the SW region of Coma as compared to the center of the cluster. A broad range of ages, from younger than 3 Gyr to older than 9 Gyr, is found in galaxies of any magnitude. However, systematic trends of age with luminosity are present among galaxies in the central field. In the central Mpc of Coma, a large fraction of galaxies at any luminosity (50-60% of the giants, >30 % of the dwarfs) show no evidence in their central regions of star formation occurred at redshift z<2, while the proportion of galaxies with significant star formation occurring at intermediate (0.35

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