Dynamical evolution of globular cluster systems in clusters of galaxies I. The case of NGC 1404 in the Fornax cluster

Details Dynamical evolution of globular cluster systems in clusters of galaxies I. The case of NGC 1404 in the Fornax cluster Dynamical evolution of globular cluster systems in clusters of galaxies I. The case of NGC 1404 in the Fornax cluster

2003-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308202v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:1334,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages 12 figures, MNRAS in press

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06925.x

We investigate, via numerical simulations, the tidal stripping and accretion of globular clusters (GCs). In particular, we focus on creating models that simulate the situation for the GC systems of NGC 1404 and NGC 1399 in the Fornax cluster, which have poor (specific frequency $S_{\rm N}$ $\sim$ 2) and rich ($S_{\rm N}$ $\sim$ 10) GC systems respectively. We initially assign NGC 1404 in our simulation a typical $S_{\rm N}$ ($\sim$ 5) for cluster ellipticals, and find that its GC system can only be reduced through stripping to the presently observed value, if its orbit is highly eccentric (with orbital eccentricity of $>$ 0.5) and if the initial scale length of the GCs system is about twice as large as the effective radius of NGC 1404 itself. These stripped GCs can be said to have formed a `tidal stream' of intracluster globular clusters (ICGCs) orbiting the centre of Fornax cluster (many of which would be assigned to NGC 1399 in an imaging study). The physical properties of these GCs (e.g., number, radial distribution) depend on the orbit and initial distribution of GCs in NGC 1404. Our simulations also predict a trend for $S_{\rm N}$ to rise with increasing clustercentric distance - a trend for which there is some observational support in the Fornax cluster.

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