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Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – I. Constraints from velocity phase space
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2018)
  • Adebusola B. Alabi, University of California Observatories
  • Anna Ferré-Mateu, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Aaron J. Romanowsky, San Jose State University
  • Jean P. Brodie, University of California Observatories
  • Duncan A. Forbes, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Asher Wasserman, University of California Observatories
  • Sabine Bellstedt, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Ignacio Martín-Navarro, University of California Observatories
  • Viraj Pandya, University of California Observatories
  • Maria B Stone, San Jose State University
  • Nobuhiro Okabe, Hiroshima University
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Abstract
We use Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy to confirm the cluster membership of 16 ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster, bringing the total number of spectroscopically confirmed UDGs from the Yagi et al. (Y16) catalogue to 25. We also identify a new cluster background UDG, confirming that most (∼95 per cent) of the UDGs in the Y16 catalogue belong to the Coma cluster. In this pilot study of Coma UDGs in velocity phase space, we find evidence of a diverse origin for Coma cluster UDGs, similar to normal dwarf galaxies. Some UDGs in our sample are consistent with being late infalls into the cluster environment, while some may have been in the cluster for ≥8 Gyr. The late infallen UDGs have higher absolute relative line-of-sight velocities, bluer optical colours, and within the projected cluster core, are smaller in size, compared to the early infalls. The early infall UDGs, which may also have formed in situ, have been in the cluster environment for as long as the most luminous galaxies in the Coma cluster, and they may be failed galaxies that experienced star formation quenching at earlier epochs.
Keywords
  • galaxies: dwarf,
  • galaxies: evolution,
  • galaxies: interactions,
  • galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
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Publication Date
September, 2018
DOI
10.1093/mnras/sty1616
Publisher Statement
This article was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2018 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
This article can also be found online at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1616
Citation Information
Adebusola B. Alabi, Anna Ferré-Mateu, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean P. Brodie, et al.. "Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster – I. Constraints from velocity phase space" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 479 Iss. 3 (2018) p. 3308 - 3318 ISSN: 0035-8711
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aaron_romanowsky/143/