How Dry Are Red Mergers?

Details How Dry Are Red Mergers? How Dry Are Red Mergers?

2007-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/0706.0734v1

Astron.J.134:1118-1123,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages plus 1 table and 5 figures; accepted for publication in AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/520676

The focus of current research in galaxy evolution has increasingly turned to understanding the effect that mergers have on the evolution of systems on the red sequence. For those interactions purported to occur dissipationlessly (so called "dry mergers"), it would appear that the role of gas is minimal. However, if these mergers are not completely dry, then even low levels of gas may be detectable. The purpose of our study is to test whether early type galaxies with HI in or around them, or "wet" ellipticals, would have been selected as dry mergers by the criteria in van Dokkum (2005, AJ, 130, 2647). To that end, we examine a sample of 20 early types from the HI Rogues Gallery with neutral hydrogen in their immediate environs. Of these, the 15 brightest and reddest galaxies match the optical dry merger criteria, but in each case, the presence of HI means that they are not truly dry.

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