Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-05-23
Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap. 54 (2002) 515
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
21 pages, 5 figures, PASJ, 54, 515, miner typos fixed
Scientific paper
We present here results on the composite luminosity functions of galaxies in the clusters of galaxies selected from the SDSS Cut and Enhance cluster catalog (CE; Goto et al. 2001). We construct the composite luminosity function in the five SDSS bands, u,g,r,i and z, using 204 CE clusters ranging from z=0.02 to z=0.25. We use photometric redshifts to construct composite luminosity functions. The robustness of the weighting scheme was tested using Monte Carlo simulation. We find the slope of composite LFs become flatter toward redder color band. Comparing with field LFs of SDSS (Blanton et al. 2001), cluster LFs have brighter characteristic magnitude and flatter slopes in g, r, i and z bands. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the cluster LF has two distinct underlying populations i.e. the bright end of the LF is dominated by bright early types that follow a gaussian--like luminosity distribution, while the faint--end of the cluster LF is a steep power--law like function dominated by star--forming (bluer) galaxies. We also study the composite luminosity functions for early--type and late--type galaxies using profile fits, a concentration parameter and u-r color to classify galaxy morphology. The strong dependence of LF on galaxy morphology is found.The faint end slope of the LF is always flatter for early--type galaxies than late--type regardless of passband and methodology. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the cluster region are dominated by bright elliptical galaxies.
Annis James
Bahcall Neta A.
Bernardi Mariangela
Brinkmann John
Gomez Percy L.
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