Bibcode
DOI
Trujillo, I.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Gutiérrez, C. M.; Caon, N.; Cepa, J.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 573, Issue 1, pp. L9-L12.
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2002
Journal
Citations
23
Refereed citations
21
Description
Using photometric and redshift data for the Virgo and Coma Clusters, we
present evidence for a correlation between the light concentration of
elliptical galaxies (including dwarf ellipticals) and the local
three-dimensional (i.e., nonprojected) density of the clusters: more
concentrated ellipticals are located in denser regions. The null
hypothesis (i.e., the absence of any relation) is rejected at a
significance level of better than 99.9%. In order to explain the
observed relation, a power law relating the galaxy light concentration
and the cluster three-dimensional density is proposed. We study how the
projection effects affect the form and dispersion of the data points in
the light concentration-projected density diagram. The agreement between
our model and the observed data suggests that there is a paucity of
dwarf elliptical galaxies in the cluster central regions.