Dwarf LSB galaxies and their environment: The Virgo Cluster, the Ursa Major Cluster, isolated galaxies and voids |
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| Authors: | S Sabatini S Roberts J Davies |
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| Institution: | (1) Cardiff University, UK |
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| Abstract: | The widely varying dwarf galaxy counts in different environments provide a strong challenge to standard hierarchical clustering
models. The luminosity function is not universal, but seems to be strongly dependent upon environment. In this paper we describe
an automated procedure for detecting and measuring very Low Surface Brightness (LSB) features in deep CCD data. We apply this
procedure to large area CCD survey fields of the Virgo cluster and find 105 dwarf LSB galaxies previously uncatalogued over
an area of ∼14 sq deg. We show that there are many more faint (14≤MB≤–10) LSB galaxies than would be predicted from extrapolation of the Virgo cluster catalogue luminosity function. Over our
limited range of measurement the faint end slope of the luminosity function becomesα=–1.6. Although these galaxies contribute
a small fraction of the total stellar light of the cluster, they may contribute significantly to the mass in galaxies if they
have large mass-to-light ratios similar to those recently measured for Local Group dwarf galaxies. By a comparison with different
environments, the Virgo Cluster seems to be highly `dwarf rich' if considering the dwarf to giant ratio or it's luminosity
function faint end slope.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies luminosity function dwarf to giant ratio |
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