Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21714902h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #149.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We examined alignments for galaxies in the galaxy cluster Abell 1689 (z = 0.18) based on archival Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 F606W and F814W images. The sources were extracted using SExtractor. We used distance from the color-magnitud relation (defined by the bright galaxies) as a proxy to select likely cluster members. We carried out a series of simulations with artificial galaxies in order to understand the limit of our position angle measurement. Based on the cluster member selection and the result of our simulations, we isolated a sample of galaxies lying on the red sequence with I < 24 and e > 0.2 to study the alignment effect. By applying the Kuiper test, we find evidence of alignment among faint galaxies and galaxies in the inner 500 kpc of the cluster. The best mechanism to produce this alignment result is tidal torquing. Akin to the Earth-Moon system, tidal effects would (re)create alignments between galaxies. Under the presence of the tidal field, fainter galaxies, especially in the center, will align themselves more rapidly than brighter galaxies.
Banados Eduardo
de Propris Roberto
Hung Li-Wei
West Michael J.
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