Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Nov 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aj....108.1598f&link_type=abstract
The Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 108, no. 5, p. 1598-1609
Mathematics
Logic
155
Aberration, Astronomical Models, Astronomical Photography, Astronomical Photometry, Elliptical Galaxies, Image Enhancement, Stellar Luminosity, Virgo Galactic Cluster, Cameras, Data Reduction, Hubble Space Telescope, Image Processing, Isophotes
Scientific paper
We have used the Planetary Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to study the morphology and surface brightness parameters of a luminosity-limited sample of fourteen elliptical galaxies in the Virgo cluster. The total apparent blue magnitudes of the galaxies range between 9.4 and 13.4. In this paper, the core brightness profiles are presented, while the overall morphology and the isophotal shapes are discussed in two companion papers (Jaffe et al. (1994); van den Bosch et al. (1994)). We show that, in spite of the spherical aberration affecting the HST primary mirror, deconvolution techniques allow recovery of the brightness profile up to 0.2 arcsec from the center of the galaxies. We find that none of the galaxies has an isothermal core. On the basis of their morphological and photometrical properties, the galaxies can be divided in two physically distinct groups, referred to as Type I and Type II. All of the Type I galaxies are classified as E1 to E3 in the Revised Shapley Ames Catalog (Sandage & Tammann 1981), while Type II galaxies are classified as E5 to E7. The characteristics of Type II galaxies are explained by the presence of disks component on both the 1 arcsec and the 10 arcsec scales, while Type I galaxies correspond to the classical disk-free ellipticals.
Ferrarese Laura
Ford Holland C.
Jaffe Walter
O'Connell Robert West
van den Bosch Franciscus Cornelus
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