A statistical comparison of line strength variations in Coma and cluster galaxies at Z ~ 0.3

Details A statistical comparison of line strength variations in Coma and cluster galaxies at Z ~ 0.3 A statistical comparison of line strength variations in Coma and cluster galaxies at Z ~ 0.3

Nov 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998pasa...15..309j&link_type=abstract

Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 309-317

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxy Clusters, Galaxy Evolution, Galaxy Formation

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We present a statistical comparison between spectral line strength variations in Coma galaxies and galaxies in three rich clusters at z ~ 0.3. Using a principal component analysis, we have transformed the observable quantities, the line strengths, into new mutually orthogonal axes and found two specific results. First, more independent parameters are required to account for the line strength variations in the distant cluster data than in the Coma data, and second, line strengths which are not correlated in the distant cluster data are strongly coupled in the Coma data. These results suggest that galaxies in clusters have been homgenized such that most of the information from the conditions present at their formation has been destroyed. Hence, it may be possible that the present day homogeneity of early type galaxy properties, e.g. the fundamental plane relation, does not require a single formation scenario, but that a variety of formation scenarios for different galaxies could still yield the observed behaviour of nearby galaxies.

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