Bibcode
Sybilska, A.; Kuntschner, H.; van de Ven, G.; Vazdekis, A.; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Peletier, R. F.; Lisker, T.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 476, Issue 4, p.4501-4509
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2018
Citations
10
Refereed citations
10
Description
In this second paper of The role of Environment in shaping Low-mass
Early-type Nearby galaxies (hELENa) series we study [Mg/Fe] abundance
distribution trends of early-type galaxies (ETGs) observed with the
Spectrographic Areal Unit for Research on Optical Nebulae integral field
unit, spanning a wide range in mass and local environment densities: 20
low-mass early types (dEs) of Sybilska et al. and 258 massive early
types (ETGs) of the ATLAS3D project, all homogeneously
reduced and analysed. We show that the [Mg/Fe] ratios scale with
velocity dispersion (σ) at fixed [Fe/H] and that they evolve with
[Fe/H] along similar paths for all early types, grouped in bins of
increasing local and global σ, as well as the second velocity
moment Vrms, indicating a common inside-out formation
pattern. We then place our dEs on the [Mg/Fe] versus [Fe/H] diagram of
Local Group galaxies and show that dEs occupy the same region and show a
similar trend line slope in the diagram as the high-metallicity stars of
the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud. This finding extends the
similar trend found for dwarf spheroidal versus dwarf irregular galaxies
and supports the notion that dEs have evolved from late-type galaxies
that have lost their gas at a point of their evolution, which likely
coincided with them entering denser environments.
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