Bibcode
den Brok, M.; Peletier, Reynier F.; Seth, Anil; Balcells, M.; Dominguez, Lilian; Graham, Alister W.; Carter, David; Erwin, Peter; Ferguson, Henry C.; Goudfrooij, Paul; Guzmán, Rafael; Hoyos, Carlos; Jogee, Shardha; Lucey, John; Phillipps, Steven; Puzia, Thomas; Valentijn, Edwin; Kleijn, Gijs Verdoes; Weinzirl, Tim
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 445, Issue 3, p.2385-2403
Fecha de publicación:
12
2014
Número de citas
96
Número de citas referidas
81
Descripción
We present scaling relations between structural properties of nuclear
star clusters and their host galaxies for a sample of early-type dwarf
galaxies observed as part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced
Camera for Surveys (ACS) Coma Cluster Survey. We have analysed the light
profiles of 200 early-type dwarf galaxies in the magnitude range 16.0
< mF814W < 22.6 mag, corresponding to -19.0 <
MF814W < -12.4 mag. Nuclear star clusters are detected in
80 per cent of the galaxies, thus doubling the sample of HST-observed
early-type dwarf galaxies with nuclear star clusters. We confirm that
the nuclear star cluster detection fraction decreases strongly towards
faint magnitudes. The luminosities of nuclear star clusters do not scale
linearly with host galaxy luminosity. A linear fit yields L_nuc ˜
L_gal^{0.57± 0.05}. The nuclear star cluster-host galaxy
luminosity scaling relation for low-mass early-type dwarf galaxies is
consistent with formation by globular cluster (GC) accretion. We find
that at similar luminosities, galaxies with higher Sérsic indices
have slightly more luminous nuclear star clusters. Rounder galaxies have
on average more luminous clusters. Some of the nuclear star clusters are
resolved, despite the distance of Coma. We argue that the relation
between nuclear star cluster mass and size is consistent with both
formation by GC accretion and in situ formation. Our data are consistent
with GC inspiralling being the dominant mechanism at low masses,
although the observed trend with Sérsic index suggests that in
situ star formation is an important second-order effect.
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