Morphological and Luminosity Content of Poor Galaxy Groups

Details Morphological and Luminosity Content of Poor Galaxy Groups Morphological and Luminosity Content of Poor Galaxy Groups

2004-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411105v1

Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) L111-L114

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, ApJ Lett. in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/427209

We find that the fraction of early-type galaxies in poor groups (containing from 4 to 10 members) is a weakly increasing function of the number of the group members and is about two times higher than in a sample of isolated galaxies. We also find that the group velocity dispersion increases weakly with the fraction of early-type galaxies. Early-type galaxies in poor groups are brighter in the near-infrared with respect to isolated ones by 0.75 mags (in K) and to a lesser degree (by 0.5 mags) also in the blue. We also find early-type galaxies in groups to be redder than those in the field. These findings suggest that the formation history for early-type galaxies in overdense regions is different from that of in underdense regions, and that their formation in groups is triggered by merging processes.

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