Bibcode
Bontà, Elena Dalla; Davies, Roger L.; Houghton, Ryan C. W.; D'Eugenio, Francesco; Corsini, Enrico M.; Méndez-Abreu, J.
Bibliographical reference
The Intriguing Life of Massive Galaxies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 295, pp. 230-230
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2013
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Description
We carried out a photometric analysis of a sample of early-type galaxies
in Abell~1689 at z = 0.183, using HST/ACS archive images in the
rest-frame V band. We performed a two-dimensional photometric
decomposition of each galaxy surface-brightness distribution using the
GASP2D fitting algorithm (Méndez-Abreu et al. 2008). We adopted
both a Sérsic and de Vaucouleurs law. S0 galaxies were analysed
also taking into account a disc component described by an exponential
law. The derived photometric parameters, together with the ones
previously obtained with the curve of growth method (Houghton et al.
2012), will be used to analyse the Fundamental Plane of Abell 1689 and
quantify how it is affected by the use of different decomposition
techniques (Dalla Bontà et al. 2013, in preparation). The stellar
velocity dispersions of the sample galaxies were derived by using
GEMINI-N/GMOS and VLT/FLAMES (D'Eugenio et al. 2013) spectroscopic data.