Download presentation
Presentation is loading. Please wait.
Published byChloe Gordon Modified over 9 years ago
1
Formation and Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in clusters Yara Jaffé 1,2 Alfonso Arag Ó n-Salamanca 1 1. The University of Nottingham 2. European Southern Observatory MAGPOP08 Paris, 12 Nov. 2008
2
OUTLINE - Introduction - Scatter-age test - The data - Some results - Conclusions
3
The CMD of galaxies in clusters
4
Universality of the CMR z = 0: Visvanathan & Sandage 1977 z = 0: Bower, Lucey & Ellis 1992 z > 0: Mei et. al. 2006 z > 0: De Lucia et. al. 2007 Slope (m) Mass-metallicity relation Scatter (δ) due to small changes in t F Evolution of m and b E’s evolved passively since formation at high z:
5
SF history : THE PARAMETER Available time t F (look-back time since last episode of SF) t H (total age of the Universe) = Δ t / (t H - t F ) Δt Spread in formation time t=0
6
THE SCATTER-AGE TEST 1. Measure the observed scatter (σ) from the CMR 2. Compute δ int by subtracting the errors introduced from the photometry 3. Colour evolution for different values of β using: 4. Comparison with population synthesis models
7
THE DATA ESO Distant Clusters Survey (EDisCS) Detailed follow-up of 20 clusters from LCDCS (Gonzalez et al. 2001) at 0.4 < z < 1 Each field containing a main cluster and some other secondary clusters and groups
8
EDisCS Deep optical photometry from VLT (14 nights) White et al. 2005 Near-IR photometry from NTT (20 nights) Aragon-Salamanca et al., in preparation Multi-object spectroscopy with FORS2/VLT (25 nights) Halliday et al. 2004; Milvang-Jensen et al. 2008 HST imaging for the of the highest-z clusters (80 orbits) Desai et al. 2007 Narrow band Hα (3 clusters) and XMM data (3 clusters) Finn et al. 2005 and Johnson et al. 2006 respectively Sub-set of 137 early type galaxies (selected by morphology) in 10 clusters
9
AIM: To probe if the scatter or t F, for a fixed value of β, depend on: The morphological sample (E´s vs. S0´s) The cut in Luminosity (mass) The colour chosen in the CMDs Properties of the clusters ?
10
SOME RESULTS... 1. Individual analysis (cluster by cluster) 2. Overall analysis (all the clusters together)
11
CMDs of the clusters CL 1216.8-1201 z = 0.79 Age at z = 6.87 Gyrs ---------------------------- No. galaxies = 31 δ int = 0.065 ± 0.009 residuals
12
MODEL COMPARISON Bruzual & Charlot 2003 - SSP - 3 different metallicities - Chabrier's IMF - Low res. libraries - 0.1 Gyr of constant SF and then passive evol. - No dust attenuation CL 1216.9-1201 d(R-I) / dt F Z sub-solar Z solar Z over-solar R - I t F (Gyr) d(R-I)/dt F
13
DIFFERENT COLOURS (in CMDs) All the early-type galaxies In CL 1216.8 1201 (z~0.8) R-II-JR-JV-II-KV-J U V
14
DIFFERENT COLOURS β=1.0 β=0.3 β=0.1... t H (z)
15
SCATTER ANALYSIS 1. Individual analysis (cluster by cluster) 2. Overall analysis (all the clusters)
16
SUB-SAMPLES All the galaxies in all the clusters Low σ v High σ v Low zHigh z EsS0sLumFaint
17
RESIDUAL DISTRIBUTION δ int =0.076 -0.004 +0.005 ( δ int =0.063 )
18
All the sample: β=1.0 Δt (rf U-V) ~ 1.7 Gyr β=0.3 Δt (rf U-V) ~ 1.0 Gyr β=0.1 Δt (rf U-V) ~ 0.5 Gyr.… t H ( ) = Δ t / (t H - t F ) δ int (rf U-V) t F (Gyr)
19
PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS: For CL 1216.8 1201 all the colours seem to give consistent t F (for β=0.3 and β=1.0) scatter about the CMR is due to age differences The estimated t F doesn’t seem to change much (within errors) with galaxy luminosity (mass), morphology or cluster propperties (vel. disp and z) but some trends are found
Similar presentations
© 2025 SlidePlayer.com. Inc.
All rights reserved.