Bibcode
Méndez-Abreu, J.; Sánchez-Janssen, R.; Aguerri, J. A. L.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 711, Issue 2, pp. L61-L65 (2010).
Fecha de publicación:
3
2010
Número de citas
67
Número de citas referidas
62
Descripción
We present a study of the bar fraction in the Coma Cluster galaxies
based on a sample of ~190 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey Data Release 6 and observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
Advanced Camera for Survey (ACS). The unprecedented resolution of the
HST-ACS images allows us to explore the presence of bars, detected by
visual classification, throughout a luminosity range of 9 mag (-23 <~
Mr <~ -14), permitting us to study the poor known region
of dwarf galaxies. We find that bars are hosted by galaxies in a tight
range of both luminosities (-22 <~ Mr <~ -17) and
masses (10^{9} ≲ M_{*}}/{M}_{&sun;} ≲ 10^{11}). This result
holds when compared with a sample of bright/massive field galaxies. In
addition, we find that the bar fraction does not vary significantly when
going from the center to the cluster outskirts, implying that cluster
environment plays a second-order role in bar formation/evolution. The
shape of the bar fraction distribution with respect to both luminosity
and mass is well matched by the luminosity distribution of disk galaxies
in Coma, indicating that bars are good tracers of cold stellar disks. We
discuss the implications of our results for the formation and evolution
scenarios of bars and disks.
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