Environmental effects on the UV upturn in local clusters of galaxies

Ali, Sadman S.; Bremer, Malcolm N.; Phillipps, Steven; De Propris, Roberto

doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1502

Title: Environmental effects on the UV upturn in local clusters of galaxies

Journal Article · Mon Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1502· OSTI ID:1526340

Ali, Sadman S. ^[1]; Bremer, Malcolm N. ^[2];

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Subaru Telescope, NAOJ, 650 N. Aohoku Place, Hilo, HI 97620, USA, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
FINCA, University of Turku, Vesilinnantie 5, Turku FI-20014, Finland

ABSTRACT We explore the dependence of ultraviolet (UV) upturn colours in early-type cluster galaxies on the properties of their parent clusters (such as velocity dispersion and X-ray luminosity) and on the positions and kinematics of galaxies within them. We use a sample of 24 nearby clusters with highly complete spectroscopy and optical/infrared data to select a suitable sample of red-sequence galaxies, whose far-ultraviolet and NUV magnitudes we measure from archival GALEX data. Our results show that the UV upturn colour has no dependence on cluster properties and has the same range in all clusters. There is also no dependence on the projected position within clusters or on line-of-sight velocity. Therefore, our conclusion is that the UV upturn phenomenon is an intrinsic feature of cluster early-type galaxies, irrespective of their cluster environment.

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