The Coma cluster luminosity function from ultraviolet to near-infrared

Details The Coma cluster luminosity function from ultraviolet to near-infrared The Coma cluster luminosity function from ultraviolet to near-infrared

2000-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009431v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Contribution to the IAP 2000 Conference "Constructing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies", Paris, July 2000. The whole pap

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[Abridged] The Coma cluster luminosity function (LF) from ultraviolet (2000 AA) to the near-infrared (H band) is summarized. In the UV the LF is very steep, much steeper than in the optical. The steep Coma UV LF implies that faint and bright galaxies give similar contributions to the total UV flux and to the total metal production rate. The Coma UV LF is dominated by star forming galaxies, not by massive and large galaxies. The optical Coma LF is relatively steep (alpha=-1.4) over the 11 magnitudes sampled. We found a clear steeping of the FL going from B to R bands, indicative of the presence of a large number of red dwarfs, as faint as three bright globular clusters. Furthermore, using Hubble Space Telescope images, we discover that blends of globular clusters, not resolved in individual components due to seeing, look like dwarf galaxies when observed from the ground and are numerous and bright. The existence of these fake extended sources increases the steepness of the LF at faint magnitudes, if not deal on. The near-infrared LF was computed on a near-infrared selected sample of galaxies which photometry is complete down to the typical dwarf (M^*+5) luminosity. The Coma LF can be described by a Schechter function with intermediate slope (alpha~-1.3), plus a dip at M_H~-22 mag. The shape of the Coma LF in H band is quite similar to the one found in the B band. The similarity of the LF in the optical and H bands implies that in the central region of Coma there is no new population of galaxies which is too faint to be observed in the optical band (because dust enshrouded, for instance), down to the magnitudes of dwarfs.

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