Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-21
Astron.J.130:2559-2565,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
21 pages, including 7 EPS figures and 1 tables, uses aastex.cls, Accepted by the AJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/497390
The merging cluster of galaxies A2255 is covered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) survey. In this paper we perform a morphological classification on the basis of the SDSS imaging and spectral data, and investigate the morphological dependence of the star formation rates (SFRs) for these member galaxies. As we expect, a tight correlation between the normalized SFR by stellar mass (SFR/M$_*$) and the H$\alpha$ equivalent width is found for the late-type galaxies in A2255. The correlation of SFR/M$_*$ with the continuum break strength at 4000 \AA is also confirmed. The SFR/M$_*$ - M$_*$ correlation is found for both the early- and late-type galaxies, indicating that the star formation activity tends to be suppressed when the assembled stellar mass M$_*$) increases, and this correlation is tighter and steeper for the late-type cluster galaxies. Compared with the mass range of field spiral galaxies, only two massive late-type galaxies with M$_*>10^{11}$ M$_{\odot}$ are survived in A2255, suggesting that the gas disks of massive spiral galaxies could have been tidally stripped during cluster formation. Additionally, the SFR variation with the projected radial distance are found to be heavily dependent upon galaxy morphology: the early-type galaxies have a very weak inner decrease in SFR/M$_*$, while the inner late-type galaxies tend to have higher SFR/M$_*$ values than the outer late-types. This may suggest that the galaxy-scale turbulence stimulated by the merging of subclusters might have played different roles on early- and late-type galaxies, which leads to a suppression of the star formation activity for E/S0 galaxies and a SFR enhancement for spiral and irregular galaxies.
Wen Zhonglue
Yang Yanbin
Yuan Qirong
Zhao Lifang
Zhou Xu
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