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Systems of Galaxies in the SDSS: the fundamental plane

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We analyse a subsample of the galaxy groups obtained by Merch\'an & Zandivarez (2005) from the SDSS DR3 to study the fundamental plane and the mass to light ratio of galaxy groups. We find a fundamental plane given by LRR1.3σ0.7L_R \propto R^{1.3} \sigma^{0.7}. We do not find differences when different dynamical sates or redshift ranges are analysed. We find that the mass to light ratio increases with group mass as M/LRM0.36M/L_R \propto M^{0.36}.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0509824,
  title  = {Systems of Galaxies in the SDSS: the fundamental plane},
  author = {Eugenia Diaz and Hernan Muriel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0509824},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted to be published in MNRAS