The innermost region of the NGC 1023 Group: Insight into its evolution

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2012-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/1204.3472v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

10 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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The NGC 1023 group is one of the most studied nearby groups. We want to give an insight into the evolution of its innermost region by means of ultraviolet observations and proper models. We used the FUV and NUV GALEX archival data as well as a large set of SPH simulations with chemo-photometric implementation. From the UV observations we found that several, already known, dwarf galaxies very close to NGC 1023 are also detected in UV and two more objects (with no optical counterpart) can be added to the group. Using these data we construct exhaustive models to account for their formation. We find that the whole SED of NGC 1023 and its global properties are well matched by a simulation which provides a minor merger with a companion system 5 times less massive. The strong interaction phase started 7.7 Gyr ago and the final merger 1.8 Gyr ago.

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