Companions to Isolated Elliptical Galaxies: Revisiting the Bothun-Sullivan Sample
arXiv:0802.1354 · doi:10.1086/383486
Abstract
(Abridged) We investigate the number of physical companion galaxies for a sample of relatively isolated elliptical galaxies. NED has been used to reinvestigate the incidence of satellite galaxies for a sample of 34 elliptical galaxies, first investigated by Bothun & Sullivan in a visual search out to a projected search radius of 75 kpc. We have repeated their original investigation using data cataloged in NED. Nine of these elliptical galaxies appear to be members of galaxy clusters; the remaining sample of 25 galaxies reveals an average of +1.0+/-0.5 apparent companions per galaxy within a projected search radius of 75 kpc, in excess of two equal-area comparison regions displaced by 150-300 kpc. This is significantly larger than the +0.12+/-0.42 companions/galaxy found by Bothun & Sullivan for the identical sample. Making use of published radial velocities identifies physical companions and gives a somewhat lower estimate of +0.4 companions per elliptical galaxy. An expansion of the search radius out to 300 kpc.
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