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1 GALAXIES 626 Lecture 15: Galaxy morphology and environment

2 Why classify galaxies? The Hubble system gives us our basic description of galaxies. The sequence of galaxy types may reflect an underlying physical and evolutionary sequence. provides an overview of integrated properties reproducing the variation in these properties along the Hubble sequence is a major (unsolved) challenge for galaxy formation/evolution theory

3 What we want from a system Bring order to diversity of galaxy forms Include nearly all galaxies Use unambiguous easily identified criteria Hopefully relate to important physical properties and provide insight into internal processes, formation and evolution of galaxies

4 Hubble Classification System

5 Basic elements 4 basic components used in the classification: Spheroid, disk, bar and arms Presence and absence and relative strength of these components define classes Principle criteria for spiral stage: Openness of spiral arms Bulge/disk ratio Degree of resolution of arms into HII regions

6 Caveats Based on limited number of nearby galaxies, in particular, high surface brightness galaxies, because they are easier to find Most criteria are descriptive, I.e., very difficult to quantify and develop automatic procedures Does not contain information about the size, luminosity or kinematic information of the galaxy Based mostly on photographic images taken in the BLUE Emphasizes star formation rather than mass distribution Appearance can vary greatly with wave band Difficult to compare with high redshift galaxies, which are mostly observed in the rest frame UV Requires reasonably good spatial resolution, difficult for galaxies at z>0.1 from the ground

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11 Elliptical galaxies smooth structure, elliptical light distribution relatively little evidence of gas, dust subtypes defined by projected flattening E0 E7 where n = 10(a b)/a n is not fully intrinsic because of spatial projection Few have n>6 Deviations from pure ellipse small concepts of disky and boxy Es

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13 SO galaxies (lenticulars) Structureless Not elliptical, with disk/bulge structure No spiral structure Difficult to classify In many cases, we just say E/S0 for early type galaxies as a whole

14 Spiral galaxies flattened disk + central bulge (usually) two major subclasses: normal and barred subtypes Sa, Sb, Sc distinguished by 3 criteria bulge/disk luminosity ratio B/D ranges from >1 (Sa) to <0.2 (Sc) spiral arm pitch angle ranges from 1 7o (Sa) to 10 35o (Sc) resolution of disk into knots, HII regions, stars these three criteria are not necessarily consistent! each reflects an underlying physical variable B/D ratio > spheroid/disk mass fractions pitch angle > rotation curve of disk, mass concentration resolution > star formation rate

15 Grand Design vs. Patchy (flocculent) Spirals

16 Irregulars: I Very late, no nucleus, low luminosity, often dwarfs Labelled Irr I by Hubble Magellenic Clouds type Labelled Sm, SBm, Im, Ibm by de Vaucouleurs and by Sandage later

17 Irregular II probably mergers, amorphous appearance Labelled Irr II by Holmberg, Hubble Labelled I0 by de Vaucouleurs M82 type; starburst Labelled Am by Sandage

18 Dwarf Irregulars (dirr) No clear disk or spirals or nucleus Patchy star formation on fainter old population Often HI rich Extreme examples are BCD, blue compact dwarfs with very strong star formation

19 Dwarf Elliptials (de) and Dwarf Spheroidals (dsph) Very small, kpc Higher/lower surface brightness corresponds to de/dsph Morphology similar to Es Light profile similar to Ss Do not follow fundamental law for Es different origin Most common kind of galaxy in the Universe

20 Unclassifiable galaxies? ~2% of galaxies cannot be classified as E, S, Irr predominantly disturbed or interacting systems At high redshift, ~30% galaxies are peculiar NGC 5128 = Cen A NGC 4038/9 = Antennae

21 Correlation with Hubble type Surface brightness size luminosity mass M/L Surface mass density Surface HI density

22 Quantitative Classification Motivation automated classification is needed for very large imaging or spectroscopic surveys (e.g., Sloan Digital Sky Survey = SDSS) can obtain objective measures that are less susceptible to systematic or subjective effects the current morphological sequence may not be representative of galaxies at earlier cosmic epochs since many physical and spectral properties of galaxies correlate with type, a physical classification system can be created parametric classifications provide information on the dimensionality of the galaxy parameter space

23 Example of quantitative image classification (Abraham) simple 2 parameter system concentration index C > ratio of fluxes in two isophotal regions asymmetry index A > flip image, subtract from initial image, measure fraction of residual flux

24 Form of LF at faint luminosities still uncertain, LF probably is dependent on galaxy environment

25 Galaxies and their Environments How are galaxies affected by their environment? What impact do galaxies have on their environment?

26 Why Study Environment?... Galaxies in dense environments form fewer star As Cosmic time progresses, more and more galaxies are bound into groups and clusters Does environment drive the decline in thestar Formation rate? Or is it that the formation of the structure is paralleling the drop in the SFR?

27 Outline: The properties of galaxies are a function of their environment: Contrast clusters and field The recent Variation in properties a function of local density universe The mechanisms at work: Mergers and tidal effects Ram pressure stripping suffocation The young universe

28 Clusters of Galaxies are most extreme environments - lots of galaxies in one place - extreme environment makes great laboratory About 5% of galaxies are in clusters

29 The Perseus Cluster cluster galaxies have E or S0 morphology (few disks with spiral arms) cluster galaxies have red colour

30 On Hubble s tuning fork diagram cluster galaxies are almost all early type Cluster galaxies early late

31 Form of LF at faint luminosities still uncertain, LF probably is dependent on galaxy environment

32 The colour magnitude relation In contrast to the field, cluster galaxies have a very well defined relation between magnitude and colour. Brighter galaxies are redder following a well defined sequence The sequence appears the same in all clusters The cloud of points at faint magnitudes are background field galaxies The CMR tells us a lot about how cluster galaxies formed Terlevich et al 2002

33 Groups Make up ~60% of local population; abundance evolves strongly with redshift Much harder to do because contrast with background is lower. Individual groups have few members.

34 How do we measure environment? To go beyond studying clusters, we need a measure of the surroundings of a galaxy Two approaches: Measure mass of the dark matter halo that the galaxy is embedded in (lensing, dynamics) Easy to compare with theory Measure local number of companions Easy to measure observationally

35 The APM Galaxy Survey ( 1/10 th of the sky)

36 2dF GRS slices in wedge diagram

37 Measuring the 3 D Environment What is required? min number of galaxies low shot noise insensitive to peculiar velocities One example: The Σ5 density estimate Volume to the 5th nearest neighbour In a slice of km/s Express as density A good measure of 3d density

38 Allocate galaxies to groups Friends of friends algorithm Connect galaxy to neighbors lying within fixed spacing and velocity. Then connect these to their neighbors and continue till no more objects to join

39 How do colors and spectra depend on environment?

40 Morphology has a strong dependence on the density environment but is morphology secondary information? does it just result from changes to the star formation rate?

41 The important point... The distribution of galaxy star formation rates is bimodal there two distinct galaxy populations: Star Forming galaxies ( late types ) Passive galaxies ( early types ) This has been recognised in clusters for a long time, but its also true of galaxies in the field

42 Hα distribution Hα distribution shows a bimodality: mean/median of whole distribution can be misleading Isolate star forming galaxies with W(Hα) >4 Å

43 The colour magnitude diagram Red sequence Note the bimodality of galaxy colours blue sequence Sloan DSS data

44 The colour magnitude diagram Dependence on environment

45 Bright Analysis of colours in SDSS data: Colour distribution in 0.5 mag bins can be fit with two Gaussians Mean and dispersion of each distribution depends strongly on luminosity Dispersion includes variation in dust, metallicity, SF history, and photometric errors Faint

46 The color magnitude diagram Fraction of star forming galaxies suppressed in dense environments but it s a continuous trend Local density is more important than halo mass Luminosity is more important than environment Even isolated regions contain passive galaxies

47 Fraction of red galaxies depends strongly on density. This is the primary influence of environment on the color distribution. Density dependence stronger than luminosity. Bright and faint galaxies show trend with density

48 Observations Summary There are distinct populations of red ( early ) and blue ( late ) galaxies The mean colors and spread of the two populations depends only weakly on environment But the relative abundance of the populations is a strong function of environment. Blue galaxies move quickly into the red population as their environment changes Why?

49 Mechanisms Why should galaxy properties depend on the environment? Collisions / harassment "Strangulation" Ram pressure (actual effects) Different history...

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