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标题：Galaxy populations in the Hydra I cluster from the VEGAS survey - II. The ultra-diffuse galaxy population
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作者：Antonio La Marca ; Enrichetta Iodice ; Michele Cantiello 等
期刊名称：Astronomy & Astrophysics
印刷版ISSN：0004-6361
电子版ISSN：1432-0746
出版年度：2022
卷号：665
页码：1-30
DOI：10.1051/0004-6361/202142367
语种：English
出版社：EDP Sciences
摘要：In this work, we extend the catalog of low-surface brightness (LSB) galaxies, including ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates, within ≈0.4Rvir of the Hydra I cluster of galaxies based on deep images from the VST Early-type GAlaxy Survey (VEGAS). The new galaxies were found by applying an automatic detection tool and carrying out additional visual inspections of g and r band images. This led to the detection of 11 UDGs and 8 more LSB galaxies. For all of them, we assessed the cluster membership using the color– magnitude relation derived for early-type giant and dwarf galaxies in Hydra I. The UDGs and new LSB galaxies found in Hydra I span a wide range of central surface brightness (22.7 . µ0,g . 26.5 mag arcsec−2 ), effective radius (0.6 . Re . 4.0 kpc), and color (0.4 ≤ g−r ≤ 0.9 mag), and have stellar masses in the range ∼5 × 106−2 × 108 M . The 2D projected distribution of both galaxy types is similar to the spatial distribution of dwarf galaxies, with over-densities in the cluster core and north of the cluster center. They have similar color distribution and comparable stellar masses to the red dwarf galaxies. Based on photometric selection, we identify a total of nine globular cluster (GC) candidates associated to the UDGs and four to the LSB galaxies, with the highest number of candidates in an individual UDG being three. We find that there are no relevant differences between dwarfs, LSB galaxies, and UDGs: the structural parameters (i.e., surface brightness, size, color, and n-index) and GC content of the three classes have similar properties and trends. This finding is consistent with UDGs being the extreme LSB tail of the size–luminosity distribution of dwarfs in this environment.
关键词：galaxies: clusters: individual: Hydra I;galaxies: photometry;galaxies: dwarf;galaxies: formation;galaxies: evolution