Photometric Properties of Galaxy Population in the Cluster EIS 0048-2942 at z~0.64

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2002-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211218v2

Astron.Astrophys. 399 (2003) 899-912

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

22 pages, 12 figures. A&A in press

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20021829

~Deep photometric data in the V-, R-, I-, z- and K-bands for the cluster of galaxies EIS 0048-2942 are used to investigate the properties of the galaxy populations at z~0.64 in a field of 2.5x2.5 Mpc^2. The sample of candidate cluster members (N = 171) is selected by the photometric redshift technique and is complete up to I=22.5. Galaxies were classified as spheroids and disks according to the shape of the light profile in the I-band, as parametrized by the Sersic index. In both optical and NIR, spheroids define a sharp colour-magnitude sequence, whose slope and zero points are consistent with a high formation redshift (z_f > 2). The disk population occupies a different region in the colour-magnitude diagram, having bluer colours with respect to the red sequence. Interestingly, we find some level of mixing between the properties of the two classes: some disks lie on the colour-magnitude sequence or are redder, while some spheroids turn out to be bluer. The spatial distribution of cluster galaxies show a clumpy structure, with a main over-density of radius ~0.5 Mpc, and at least two other clumps distant ~1 Mpc from the center. The various sub-structures are mostly populated by the red galaxies, while the blue population has an almost uniform distribution. The fraction of blue galaxies in EIS 0048-2942 is f_B=0.11 +/-0.07. This is much lower than what expected on the basis of the Butcher-Oemler effect at lower redshifts.

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