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Detection of Surface Brightness Fluctuations in NGC 4373 Using the Hubble Space Telescope | | M. A. Pahre
; J. R. Mould
; A. Dressler
; the WFPC-2 Investigation Definition Team
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21 Sep 1998 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | 1,2), J. R. Mould , A. Dressler , and the WFPC-2 Investigation Definition Team ( Palomar Observatory, Caltech; Current address: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories; Observatories of the Carnegie I | | Abstract: | Surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) have been detected for three elliptical galaxies-NGC 3379 in the Leo group, NGC 4406 in the Virgo cluster, and NGC 4373 in the Hydra-Centaurus supercluster-using marginally-sampled, deep images taken with the Planetary Camera of the WFPC-2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The power spectrum of the fluctuations image is well-fit by an empirical model of the point-spread function (PSF) constructed using point sources identified in the field. The previous ground-based SBF measurements for NGC 3379 and NGC 4406 are recovered, thereby demonstrating the capability of the Planetary Camera of WFPC-2 to measure distances using the SBF technique despite the marginal sampling of the images. The residual variance due to unresolved sources in all three galaxies is only 2-5% of the detected fluctuations signal, which confirms the advantage of HST imaging in minimizing the uncertainty of this SBF correction. Extensive consistency checks, including an independent SBF analysis using an alternate software package, suggest that our internal uncertainties are < 0.02 mag. The fluctuations magnitude for NGC 4373 is I814bar = 31.31 +/- 0.05 mag, corresponding to a distance modulus of DM = 32.99 +/- 0.11. This implies a peculiar velocity for this galaxy of 415 +/- 330 km/s, which is smaller than derived from the D_n-sigma relation. These results demonstrate the power of the post-repair HST to measure distances to elliptical galaxies at significant redshifts using the SBF technique. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9809266 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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