Faint Companions of Isolated 2MIG Galaxies
Abstract
We present the results of a search for companions around the isolated galaxies from the 2MIG catalog. Among 3227 2MIG galaxies we detected 125 objects with a total of 214 neighbors having radial velocity differences of Delta V < 500 km/s and projected separations of R_p < 500 kpc relative to the 2MIG galaxies. The median luminosity of the companions is 1/25 of the luminosity of catalog galaxies, which has little effect on the dynamic isolation of the latter. The median ratio of the orbital mass to the K-luminosity determined from 60 companions of E and S0 2MIG galaxies, 63 M_sun/L_sun, is signficantly greater than that found from the spiral galaxy companions (17 M_sun/L_sun). We note that a fraction of 2MIG galaxies with companions may be a part of low-contrast diffuse structures: clouds and filaments.
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@article{arxiv.1112.2821,
title = {Faint Companions of Isolated 2MIG Galaxies},
author = {V. E. Karachentseva and I. D. Karachentsev and O. V. Melnyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.2821},
year = {2015}
}
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15 pages, 6 figures, 1 table