K-band Properties of Well-Sampled Groups of Galaxies

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2004-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407640v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

38 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication on Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/424862

We use a sample of 55 groups and 6 clusters of galaxies ranging in mass from 7 x 10^11 Msun to 1.5 x 10^15 Msun to examine the correlation of the Ks-band luminosity with mass discovered by Lin et al. (2003). We use the 2MASS catalog and published redshifts to construct complete magnitude limited redshift surveys of the groups. From these surveys we explore the IR photometric properties of groups members including their IR color distribution and luminosity function. Although we find no significant difference between the group Ks luminosity function and the general field, there is a difference between the color distribution of luminous group members and their counterparts (generally background) in the field. There is a significant population of luminous galaxies with H-Ks > 0.35 which are rarely, if ever, members of the groups in our sample. The most luminous galaxies which populate the groups have a very narrow range of IR color. Over the entire mass range covered by our sample, the Ks luminosity increases with mass as L ~ M^(0.64 +/- 0.06) implying that the mass-to-light ratio in the Ks-band increases with mass. The agreement between this result and earlier investigations of essentially non-overlapping sets of systems shows that this window in galaxy formation and evolution is insensitive to the selection of the systems and to the details of the mass and luminosity computations.

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