THE LOCAL GALAXY DENSITY AND THE BULGE-TO-DISK RATIO OF DISK GALAXIES

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1995-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9503072v1

Astrophys.J. 450 (1995) 41

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LATEX file, 19 pages, figures available on request

Scientific paper

10.1086/176117

Relying on samples of disk galaxies for which a detailed photometric bulge/disk decomposition has been provided in the literature, we examine the dependence of the bulge-to-disk luminosity ratio (B/D) on the blue absolute luminosity and on the environmental density. In our statistical analysis of various B/D data sets we pay particular attention to disentangling the role played by the galaxy morphology--galaxy density relation. Besides, we focus our attention on nearby ($z<0.01$) galaxies, for which we can provide a three-dimensional characterization of the local galaxy density. We find that the observed tendency of galaxies to have greater B/D with increasing galaxy density simply reflects the average decline of B/D towards later morphological types together with the morphology--density relation. This relation tends to give rise also to a greater proportion of bright bulges in denser regions, because the decrease of B/D towards later types is mostly due to a dimming of the bulge rather than to a brightening of the disk. But when we remove the effect induced by the morphology--density relation, we detect no clear evidence of a dependence of B/D on galaxy density. Furthermore, B/D turns out to be substantially unrelated to the blue absolute magnitude of the galaxy. We briefly discuss to what extent our results (partially) disagree with previous claims.

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