Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-03-18
Astrophys.J. 598 (2003) L87-L90
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol.3: Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution
Scientific paper
We present first results from our project to examine the internal kinematics of disk galaxies in 7 rich clusters with 0.3<=z<0.6. Spatially resolved MOS spectra have been obtained with FORS at the VLT. We concentrate here on the clusters MS1008.1-1224 at z=0.30 and Cl0413-6559 (F1557.19TC) at z=0.51. Out of 22 cluster members, 12 galaxies exhibit a rotation curve of the universal form rising in the inner region and passing over into a flat part. The other members have intrinsically peculiar kinematics. The 12 cluster galaxies for which a maximum rotation velocity could be derived are distributed in the Tully-Fisher diagram very similar to field galaxies from the FORS Deep Field with corresponding redshifts. The same is true for 6 galaxies observed in the cluster fields that turned out not to be members. In particular, these cluster spirals do not show any significant luminosity evolution as might be expected from certain clusterspecific phenomena. Contrary to that, the other half of the cluster sample with disturbed kinematics also shows a higher degree of structural assymetries on average indicating ongoing or recent interaction processes.
Boehm Armin
Fritz Alexander
Heidt Jochen
Jaeger Kellie
Ziegler Bodo L.
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