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Early-Type (E, S0) Galaxies in the Catalog of Isolated Galaxies (KIG)

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2021-12-22 v1

Abstract

We use the data of modern digital sky surveys (PanSTARRS-1, SDSS) combined with HI-line and far ultraviolet (GALEX) surveys to reclassify 165 early-type galaxies from the Catalog of Isolated Galaxies (KIG). As a result, the number of E- and S0-type galaxies reduced to 91. Our search for companions of early-type KIG galaxies revealed 90 companions around 45 host galaxies with line-of-sight velocity differences dV<500|dV| < 500 km s1^{-1} and linear projected separations Rp<750R_{p} < 750 kpc. We found no appreciable differences in either integrated luminosity or color of galaxies associated with the presence or absence of close neighbors. We found a characteristic orbital mass-to-luminosity ratio for 26 systems "KIG galaxy--companion" to be M/LK=(74±26)M/LM_{\odot}/L_{K} = (74\pm26) M_{\odot}/L_{\odot}, which is consistent with the Morb/LKM_{\rm orb}/L_{K} estimates for early-type isolated galaxies in the 2MIG catalog (63M/L63 M_{\odot}/L_{\odot}), and also with the Morb/LKM_{\rm orb}/L_{K} estimates for E- and S0-type galaxies in the Local Volume: 38±2238\pm22 (NGC 3115), 82±2682\pm26 (NGC 5128), 65±2065\pm20 (NGC 4594). The high halo-to-stellar mass ratio for E- and S0-type galaxies compared to the average (20±3)M/L(20\pm3) M_{\odot}/L_{\odot} ratio for bulgeless spiral galaxies is indicative of a significant difference between the dynamic evolution of early- and late-type galaxies.

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@article{arxiv.2104.06743,
  title  = {Early-Type (E, S0) Galaxies in the Catalog of Isolated Galaxies (KIG)},
  author = {V. E. Karachentseva and I. D. Karachentsev and O. V. Melnyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.06743},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Accepted to Asrophysical Bulletin, 16 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables