Evolution of Cluster Ellipticals at 0.2 < z < 1.2 from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging

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1996-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612009v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures, and 1 Table

Scientific paper

10.1086/310508

Two-dimensional surface photometry derived from Hubble Space Telescope imaging is presented for a sample of 225 early-type galaxies (assumed to be cluster members) in the fields of 9 clusters at redshifts $0.17 < z < 1.21$. The 94 luminous ellipticals ($M_{AB}(B)<-20$; selected by morphology alone with no reference to color) form tight sequences in the size-luminosity plane. The position of these sequences shifts, on average, with redshift so that an object of a given size at z=0.55 is brighter by $\Delta M(B)=-0.57 \pm 0.13$ mag than its counterpart (measured with the same techniques) in nearby clusters. At z=0.9 the shift is $\Delta M(B)=-0.96 \pm 0.22$ mag. If the relation between size and luminosity is universal so that the local cluster galaxies represent the evolutionary endpoints of those at high redshift, and if the size-luminosity relation is not modified by dynamical processes then this population of galaxies has undergone significant luminosity evolution since z=1 consistent with expectations based on models of passively evolving, old stellar populations.

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