Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991mnras.250..544j&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 250, June 1, 1991, p. 544-554.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Dwarf Galaxies, Elliptical Galaxies, Infrared Astronomy, Irregular Galaxies, Virgo Galactic Cluster, Charge Coupled Devices, Color-Magnitude Diagram, Luminosity, Near Infrared Radiation
Scientific paper
JHK surface photometry is presented for a total of 13 dwarf irregular (dI) and dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies in the Virgo cluster, drawn from the bright end of the dwarf luminosity function. These images are used to show that the structures defined by the old stellar populations differ significantly between the two types of dwarfs. In particular, the dIs have more flattened and asymmetric stellar light distributions, and there are no dIs with H-band luminosities or surface brightnesses as high as those of the brightest dEs. This is strong evidence against the models in which dEs are formed by the gas-stripping of dIs. However, a tight surface brightness-luminosity relation is found in the H-band, with a scatter of only 0.25 mag, including dwarfs of both types. This is potentially a very powerful redshift-independent distance indicator. One of the galaxies studied, IC 3328, is found to have a prominent nucleus with significant redder near-IR colors than the remainder of the galaxy.
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