Bibcode
Ascaso, B.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; Moles, M.; Sánchez-Janssen, R.
Referencia bibliográfica
Galaxies in Isolation: Exploring Nature Versus Nurture, proceedings of a conference held 12 to 15 May 2009 in Granada, Spain. Edited by Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro, Ascencíon del Olmo, and Jack Sulentic. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010., p.242
Fecha de publicación:
10
2010
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0
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Descripción
We have studied the quantitative morphology and structural parameters of
the bright galaxy population in the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)
sample, which consists of five clusters of galaxies within the redshift
range 0.18 ≤ z ≤ 0.25, imaged in the central 0.5-2 Mpc in very
good seeing conditions. We have obtained that the structural parameters
of E/S0 galaxies are similar to those showed by galaxies in low redshift
clusters. However, the disc scales have a different behaviour. In
particular, the scales of the discs of galaxies at medium redshift
clusters are statistically different from those located in similar
galaxies in the Coma cluster but, the scales of the discs of galaxies in
medium redshift clusters are similar to nearby field galaxies. The
results suggest that the evolution of the disc component of galaxies in
clusters is faster than in field ones. This indicates that spiral
galaxies in clusters have suffered a strong evolution in the last 2.5
Gyr. Mechanisms like galaxy harassment showing timescales of ˜
1Gyr could be the responsible of this disc scale evolution.