Southern GEMS Groups I: Dynamical Properties

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2006-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605279v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:1223-1246,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

30 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS, Table 3 available at http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~sbrough/landscape_table3.ps

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10542.x

Here we present an investigation of the properties of 16 nearby galaxy groups and their constituent galaxies. The groups are selected from the Group Evolution Multi-wavelength Study (GEMS) and all have X-ray as well as wide-field neutral hydrogen (HI) observations. Group membership is determined using a friends-of-friends algorithm on the positions and velocities from the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and NASA/IPAC Extra-galactic Database (NED). For each group we derive their physical properties using this membership, including: velocity dispersions (sigma_v), virial masses (M_V), total K-band luminosities (L_K(Tot)) and early-type fractions (f_early) and present these data for the individual groups. We find that the GEMS X-ray luminosity is proportional to the group velocity dispersions and virial masses: L_X(r_500)\propto\sigma_v^{3.11\pm0.59} and L_X(r_500)\propto M_V^{1.13\pm0.27}, consistent with the predictions of self-similarity between group and clusters. We also find that M_V\propto L_K(Tot)^{2.0\pm0.9}, i.e. mass grows faster than light and that the fraction of early-type galaxies in the groups is correlated with the group X-ray luminosities and velocity dispersions. We examine the brightest group galaxies (BGGs), finding that, while the luminosity of the BGG correlates with its total group luminosity, the fraction of group luminosity contained in the BGG decreases with increasing total group luminosity. This suggests that BGGs grow by mergers at early times in group evolution while the group continues to grow by accreting infalling galaxies. (Abridged)

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