An environmental dependence of the physical and structural properties in the Hydra Cluster galaxies
Abstract
The nearby Hydra Cluster (50 Mpc) is an ideal laboratory to understand, in detail, the influence of the environment on the morphology and quenching of galaxies in dense environments. We study the Hydra cluster galaxies in the inner regions () of the cluster using data from the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS), which uses 12 narrow and broad band filters in the visible region of the spectrum. We analyse structural (S\'ersic index, effective radius) and physical (colours, stellar masses and star formation rates) properties. Based on this analysis, we find that 88 percent of the Hydra cluster galaxies are quenched. Using the Dressler-Schectman test approach, we also find that the cluster shows possible substructures. Our analysis of the phase-space diagram together with DBSCAN algorithm indicates that Hydra shows an additional substructure that appears to be in front of the cluster centre, which is still falling into it. Our results, thus, suggest that the Hydra Cluster might not be relaxed. We analyse the median S\'ersic index as a function of wavelength and find that for red (2.3) and early-type galaxies it displays a slight increase towards redder filters (13 and 18 percent, for red and early-type respectively) whereas for blue+green (<2.3) galaxies it remains constant. Late-type galaxies show a small decrease of the median S\'ersic index toward redder filters. Also, the S\'ersic index of galaxies, and thus their structural properties, do not significantly vary as a function of clustercentric distance and density within the cluster; and this is the case regardless of the filter.
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@article{arxiv.2010.15235,
title = {An environmental dependence of the physical and structural properties in the Hydra Cluster galaxies},
author = {Ciria Lima-Dias and Antonela Monachesi and Sergio Torres-Flores and Arianna Cortesi and Daniel Hernández-Lang and Carlos Eduardo Barbosa and Claudia Mendes de Oliveira and Daniela Olave-Rojas and Diego Pallero and Laura Sampedro and Alberto Molino and Fabio R. Herpich and Yara L. Jaffé and Ricardo Amorín and Ana L. Chies-Santos and Paola Dimauro and Eduardo Telles and Paulo A. A. Lopes and Alvaro Alvarez-Candal and Fabricio Ferrari and Antonio Kanaan and Tiago Ribeiro and William Schoenell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15235},
year = {2020}
}
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Accepted for publication in MNRAS