The colour magnitude relation for galaxies in the Coma cluster

Details The colour magnitude relation for galaxies in the Coma cluster The colour magnitude relation for galaxies in the Coma cluster

2001-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106337v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 326 (2001) 1547

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 13 Figures. For associated data file, see ftp://ftp.sr.bham.ac.uk/pub/ale/ComaPhot/

Scientific paper

We present a new photometric catalogue of the Coma galaxy cluster in the Johnson U- and V- bands. We cover an area of 3360arcmin2 of sky, to a depth of V=20 mag in a 13 arcsec diameter aperture, and produce magnitudes for ~1400 extended objects in metric apertures from 8.8 to 26arcsec diameters. The mean internal RMS scatter in the photometry is 0.014 mag in V, and 0.026 mag in U, for V13 < 17 mag. We place new limits on the levels of scatter in the colour--magnitude relation (CMR) in the Coma cluster, and investigate how the slope and scatter of the CMR depends on galaxy morphology, luminosity and position within the cluster. As expected, the lowest levels of scatter are found in the elliptical galaxies, while the late type galaxies have the highest numbers of galaxies bluewards of the CMR. We investigate whether the slope of the CMR is an artifact of colour gradients within galaxies and, show that it persists when the colours are measured within a diameter that scales with galaxy size. Looking at the environmental dependence of the CMR, we find a trend of systematically bluer galaxy colours with increasing projected cluster-centric radius which we associate with a gradient in the mean galactic ages.

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