Quantitative measure of evolution of bright cluster galaxies at moderate redshifts

Details Quantitative measure of evolution of bright cluster galaxies at moderate redshifts Quantitative measure of evolution of bright cluster galaxies at moderate redshifts

2009-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/0911.0506v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS: Letters

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Using archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope, we study the quantitative morphological evolution of spectroscopically confirmed bright galaxies in the core regions of nine clusters ranging in redshift from $z = 0.31$ to $z = 0.84$. We use morphological parameters derived from two dimensional bulge-disk decomposition to study the evolution. We find an increase in the mean bulge-to-total luminosity ratio $B/T$ as the Universe evolves. We also find a corresponding increase in the fraction of early type galaxies and in the mean S\'ersic index. We discuss these results and their implications to physical mechanisms for evolution of galaxy morphology.

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