Environmental Dependence of the Structure of Brightest Cluster Galaxies

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2005-10-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510065v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:1354-1362,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09679.x

We measure the Petrosian structural properties of 33 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) at redshifts z<0.1 in X-ray selected clusters with a wide range of X-ray luminosities. We find that some BCGs show distinct signatures in their Petrosian profiles, likely to be due to cD haloes. We also find that BCGs in high X-ray luminosity clusters have shallower surface brightness profiles than those in low X-ray luminosity clusters. This suggests that the BCGs in high X-ray luminosity clusters have undergone up to twice as many equal-mass mergers in their past as those in low X-ray luminosity clusters. This is qualitatively consistent with the predictions of hierarchical structure formation.

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