Narrow band imaging in [OIII] and Halpha to search for ICPNe in the Virgo cluster

Details Narrow band imaging in [OIII] and Halpha to search for ICPNe in the Virgo cluster Narrow band imaging in [OIII] and Halpha to search for ICPNe in the Virgo cluster

2002-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211351v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

32 pages,11 figures, in press on AJ, February 2003

Scientific paper

10.1086/345962

We have identified intracluster planetary nebulae in a Virgo cluster core field by imaging with the Subaru Suprime-Cam through two narrow band filters centered at the redshifted wavelengths of the [OIII] $\lambda=5007$ \AA and the H$\alpha$ $\lambda = 6563$ \AA lines; broad-band images in V and R were acquired to check for emission in the adjacent continuum. Emission line objects in Virgo are then selected from the two-color diagram ([OIII] -- Halpha) vs. ([OIII] -- (V+R)), which is calibrated using PNe in M84 (Jacoby et al. 1990). Using both [OIII] and Halpha allows us to distinguish bona-fide planetary nebulae from high redshift emission-line galaxies at the bright end of the [OIII] luminosity function. Spectroscopic observations of a subsample of these objects were made at the TNG and at the VLT, in a region around M84 and in an intracluster field respectively. The observations confirm the efficiency of the combined [OIII]+H$\alpha$ imaging to identify true PNe. We also obtained the first spectrum of an intracluster PN which shows the [OIII] doublet with S/N > 10 and its Halpha emission. From the results based on the spectroscopic follow-up, we derive a lower limit to the fraction of the Virgo cluster light contributed by the intracluster stars at the surveyed position in the cluster core: it amounts to 10%.

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