Nature and Environment of Very Luminous Galaxies

Details Nature and Environment of Very Luminous Galaxies Nature and Environment of Very Luminous Galaxies

2003-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306362v1

Astron.Astrophys.408:905-914,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, A&A, in press

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031016

The most luminous galaxies in the blue passband have a larger correlation amplitude than L* galaxies. They do not appear to be preferentially located in rich clusters or groups, but a significant fraction of them seem to be in systems which include fainter members.We present an analysis of fields centered on 18 Very Luminous Galaxies (MB < -21) selected from the Southern Sky Redshift Survey 2, based on new observations and public data of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey; we present also additional data on a CfA VLG and on Arp 127. We find that all the selected VLGs are physically associated to fainter companions. Moreover, there is a relation between the VLG morphology (early or late) and the dynamical properties of the system, which reflects the morphology-density relation. 6 out of the 18 SSRS2 VLGs are early type galaxies: 2 are in the center of rich Abell clusters with velocity dispersion sigma ~600 km/s, and the other 4 are in poor clusters or groups with sigma ~300. The VLG extracted from the CfA catalog is also an elliptical in a Zwicky cluster. The remaining 2/3 of the sample are late-type VLGs, generally found in poorer systems with a larger spread in velocity dispersion, from ~100 up to ~750 km/s. The low velocity dispersion, late-type VLG dominated systems appear to be the analogous of our own Local Group. The possibile association of VLG systems to dark matter halos with mass comparable to rich groups or clusters, as suggested by the comparable correlation amplitude, would imply significant differences in the galaxy formation process. This work also shows that observing fields around VLGs represents an effective way of identifying galaxy systems which are not selected through other traditional techniques.

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