The fundamental plane of isolated early-type galaxies

Abstract

Here we present new measurements of effective radii, surface brightnesses and internal velocity dispersions for 23 isolated early-type galaxies. The photometric properties are derived from new multi-colour imaging of 10 galaxies, whereas the central kinematics for 7 galaxies are taken from forthcoming work by Hau & Forbes. These are supplemented with data from the literature. We reproduce the colour-magnitude and Kormendy relations and strengthen the result of Paper I that isolated galaxies follow the same photometric relations as galaxies in high density environments. We also find that some isolated galaxies reveal fine structure indicative of a recent merger while others appear undisturbed. We examine the Fundamental Plane in both traditional R_e, mu_e and sigma space and also kappa-space. Most isolated galaxies follow the same Fundamental Plane tilt and scatter for galaxies in high density environments. However, a few galaxies notably deviate from the plane in the sense of having smaller M/L ratios. This can be understood in terms of their younger stellar populations, which are presumably induced by a gaseous merger. Overall, isolated galaxies have similar properties to those in roups and clusters with a slight enhancement in the frequency of recent mergers/interactions.

arXiv commentComments:11 pages, 7 Postscript figures, 2 JPEG figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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