Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-10-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
11 pages, 12 figures, to be published in A&A
Scientific paper
Compact groups of galaxies are in particular good laboratories for studying galaxy interactions and their effects on the evolution of galaxies due to their high density and low velocity dispersion. SCG0018-4854 is a remarkably high galaxy density and low velocity dispersion group with evidence of a recent interaction. We obtained VLT FORS2 optical observations and we present spectroscopic and photometric evidence of how dramatically galaxy interactions have affected each of the four member galaxies. We found peculiar kinematics for each galaxy and evidence of recent star formation. In particular, the gas and stellar radial velocity curves of two galaxies are irregular with a level of asymmetry similar to that of other interacting galaxies. We discovered the presence of a bar for NGC 92 therefore revising a previous morphological classification and we obtained spectroscopic confirmation of a galactic-scale outflow of NGC 89. Peculiar kinematics and dynamic consideration lead to a rough estimate of the age of the latest interaction: 0.2-0.7 Gyr, suggesting that SCG0018-4854 is a young and dynamical group.
Iovino Angela
Pompei Emanuela
Presotto V.
Temporin Sonia
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