Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-12-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
26 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in AJ
Scientific paper
We have analyzed CCD images of 14 Abell clusters in the R filter of the SARS survey (Way et al 2004), with cz<40000kms^{-1}. We have obtained the luminosity profiles for 507 galaxies of which 232 (46%) have known redshifts. In order to fit the luminosity profiles we used the de Vaucouleurs law for bulge systems, an exponential profile for disk systems and we have also fitted the Sersic's law (r^n) to all galaxy profiles. We have found that 162 (32%) galaxies in the sample have pure r^{1/4} profiles, 168 (33%) have pure exponential profiles, while 93 (18%) galaxies have luminosity profiles that are well fitted by a combination of both bulge and disk profiles. On the other hand, we could not fit the classical bulge + disk profile to the remaining 84 (17%) galaxies of the sample. For such cases we have only used the Sersic law. We have also analyzed how seeing and sky cleaning affect the structural and photometric parameters obtained through profile fitting. In addition, we have studied several relations between these parameters. We have found that bulges and disks show consistency with a unique relation in the \mu_e - log(r_e) plane. We also found that bulges and disks obey a magnitude-size relation in the sense that large bulges and disks (large r_e values) have high luminosities. On the other hand, Sersic law fitting parameters n, $rs$ and \mu_s show a strong correlation in agreement with other authors suggesting the idea that not only ellipticals but all galaxies are likely to be understood as a one parameter family.
Coenda Valeria
Donzelli Carlos José
Infante Leopoldo
Lambas Diego G.
Muriel Hernan
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