A WISE VIEW OF A NEARBY SUPERCLUSTER A2199

作者：Hwang Ho Seong^*; Geller Margaret J; Diaferio Antonaldo; Rines Kenneth J

来源：Astrophysical Journal, 2012, 752(1): 64.

DOI：10.1088/0004-637X/752/1/64

• galaxies: clusters: individual (Abell 2199)
• galaxies: evolution
• galaxies: formation
• galaxies: luminosity function, mass function
• infrared: galaxies

We use Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) data covering the entire region (similar to 130 deg(2)) of the A2199 supercluster at z = 0.03 to study the mid-infrared (MIR) properties of supercluster galaxies. We identify an %26quot;MIR star-forming sequence%26quot; in the WISE [3.4]-[12] color-12 mu m luminosity diagram, consisting of late-type, star-forming galaxies. At a fixed star formation rate, the MIR-detected galaxies at 22 mu m or 12 mu m tend to be more metal-rich and to have higher surface brightness than those without MIR detection. Using these MIR-detected galaxies, we construct the IR luminosity LF) and investigate its environmental dependence. Both total IR (TIR) and 12 mu m LFs are dominated by late-type, star-forming galaxies. The contribution of active galactic nucleus host galaxies increases with both TIR and 12 mu m luminosities. The contribution of early-type galaxies to the 12 mu m LFs increases with decreasing luminosity. The faint-end slope of the TIR LFs does not change with environment, but the change of faint-end slope in the 12 mu m LFs with the environment is significant: there is a steeper faint-end slope in the cluster core than in the cluster outskirts. This steepening results primarily from the increasing contribution of early-type galaxies toward the cluster. These galaxies are passively evolving, and contain old stellar populations with weak MIR emission from the circumstellar dust around asymptotic giant branch stars.

• 出版日期2012-6-10