The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. Isophotal Analysis and the Structure of Early-Type Galaxies
arXiv:astro-ph/0602297 · doi:10.1086/501350
Abstract
(Abridged) We present a detailed analysis of the morphology, isophotal parameters and surface brightness profiles for 100 early-type members of the Virgo Cluster, from dwarfs (M_B = -15.1 mag) to giants (M_B = -21.8 mag). Each galaxy has been imaged in two filters, closely resembling the Sloan g and z passbands, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Dust and complex morphological structures are common, with kiloparsec-scale stellar disks, bars, and nuclear stellar disks seen in 60% of galaxies with intermediate luminosity (-20 < M_B < -17), and dust seen in 42% of galaxies brighter than M_B = -18.9 mag. Dust morphologies range from faint wisps and patches on tens of parsec scales, to regular, highly organized kpc-scale dust disks, often showing evidence of recent star formation. Surface brightness profiles and isophotal parameters are derived typically within 8 kpc from the center for the brightest galaxies, and 1.5 kpc for the faintest systems, with a resolution (FWHM) of 7 pc. Based on a parametrization of the surface brightness profiles in terms of a Sersic or core-Sersic model, we find that 1) there is no evidence of a bimodal behavior of the slope, gamma, of the profile in the innermost regions; 2) although the brightest galaxies have shallow inner profiles, the shallowest profiles (lowest gamma values) are found in faint dwarf systems; 3) the widely adopted separation of early-type galaxies between "core" and "power-law" types, which had originally been prompted by the claim of a clear bimodal distribution of gamma values, is untenable; and 4) there is no evidence of a structural dichothomy between dwarf and regular ellipticals.
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- Galaxy populations in the Antlia cluster. II. Compact elliptical galaxy candidates
- The SLUGGS Survey: Globular cluster system kinematics and substructure in NGC 4365
- The bright end of the colour-magnitude relation of cluster galaxies
- LEDA 074886: A remarkable rectangular-looking galaxy
- Specific Frequencies and Luminosity Profiles of Cluster Galaxies and Intracluster Light in Abell 1689
- THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY. XIV. Shell feature early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster
- The Evolutionary History of Galactic Bulges: Photometric and Spectroscopic Studies of Distant Spheroids in the GOODS Fields
- Formation of central massive objects via tidal compression
- Defining the (Black Hole)-Spheroid Connection with the Discovery of Morphology-Dependent Substructure in the -- and -- Diagrams: New Tests for Advanced Theories and Realistic Simulations
- The effect of dry mergers on the color-magnitude relation of early-type galaxies
- Mapping the galaxy NGC 4486 (M87) through its Globular Cluster System
- A New Empirical Method to Infer the Starburst History of the Universe from Local Galaxy Properties
- Formation and Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies. III Star formation history as a function of mass and over-density
- A VLA radio-survey of early-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster
- Evidence for the disky origin of luminous Virgo dwarf ellipticals from the kinematics of their globular cluster systems
- . I. Understanding galaxy sizes, associated luminosity densities, and the artificial division of the early-type galaxy population
- The Nature of Blue Early-Type Galaxies in the Goods Fields
- An extensive catalogue of early-type galaxies in the nearby Universe
- Globular cluster systems as tracers of environmental effects on Virgo early-type dwarfs
- Two-phase model for Black Hole feeding and feedback
- The MASSIVE Survey -- XV. A Stellar Dynamical Mass Measurement of the Supermassive Black Hole in Massive Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1453
- A deep view on the Virgo cluster core
- A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).V. Properties of the ionised gas filament of M87
- Solo dwarfs II: The stellar structure of isolated Local Group dwarf galaxies
- Stellar masses, sizes, and radial profiles for 465 nearby early-type galaxies: an extension to the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (SG)
- Inward Bound: The incredible journey of massive black holes as they pair and merge; I. The effect of mass ratio in flattened rotating galactic nuclei
- An isolated, compact early-type galaxy with a diffuse stellar component: merger origin?
- Solo Dwarfs I: Survey introduction and first results for the Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
- Young stellar populations in early-type dwarf galaxies; occurrence, radial extent and scaling relations
- On the relation between the mass of Compact Massive Objects and their host galaxies
- The Optical Colors of Giant Elliptical Galaxies and their Metal-Rich Globular Clusters Indicate a Bottom-Heavy Initial Mass Function
- Gravitational Stability of Circumnuclear Disks in Elliptical Galaxies
- Morphological evolution in situ: Disk-dominated cluster red sequences at z ~ 1.25
- Tests of Gravity Theories Using Supermassive Black Holes
- AMUSE-Field II. Nucleation of early-type galaxies in the field vs. cluster environment
- An optical/NIR survey of globular clusters in early-type galaxies. I. Introduction and data reduction procedures
- The Build-Up of Nuclear Stellar Cusps in Extreme Starburst Galaxies and Major Mergers
- Multiband photometric decomposition of nuclear stellar disks
- The Toomre Sequence Revisited with HST/NICMOS: Nuclear Brightness Profiles and Colors of Interacting and Merging Galaxies
- MUSE stares into the shadows: the high-resolution dust attenuation curve of NGC 5626
- Galaxy populations in the Antlia cluster - III. Properties of faint early-type galaxies
- The globular clusters-stellar haloes connection in early type galaxies
- The SLUGGS survey: Probing the supermassive black hole connection with bulges and haloes using red and blue globular cluster systems
- Mass distribution and orbital anisotropy of early-type galaxies: constraints from the Mass Plane
- The quest for the largest depleted galaxy core: supermassive black hole binaries and stalled in-falling satellites
- Star formation quenching imprinted on the internal structure of naked red nuggets
- A Non-Parametric Estimate of Mass 'Scoured' in Galaxy Cores
- The host galaxy/AGN connection. Brightness profiles of early-type galaxies hosting Seyfert nuclei
- Morphological evolution of cluster red sequence galaxies in the past 9 Gyr
- Understanding the Unique Assembly History of Central Group Galaxies
- Probing the Central Regions of Nearby Compact Elliptical Galaxies
- Dual Halos and Formation of Early-Type Galaxies
- Ultramassive black holes in the most massive galaxies: versus
- Analytical Galaxy Profiles for Photometric and Lensing Analysis
- Scaling relations for globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies
- I- A hydrodynamical CLONE of the Virgo cluster of galaxies to confirm observationally-driven formation scenarios
- Dissolved Massive Metal-Rich Globular Clusters Can Cause the Range of UV Upturn Strengths Found among Early-type Galaxies
- A consistency-test for determining whether ultra-compact dwarf galaxies could be the remnant nuclei of threshed galaxies
- Dust within the old nuclear star cluster in the Milky Way
- Complex central structures suggest complex evolutionary paths for barred S0 galaxies
- The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XVII. The Spatial Alignment of Globular Cluster Systems With Early-Type Host Galaxies
- Spitzer IRS Spectral Mapping of the Toomre Sequence: Spatial Variations of PAH, Gas, and Dust Properties in Nearby Major Mergers
- Early-type galaxies at large galactocentric radii - I. Stellar kinematics and photometric properties
- Shape, shear & flexion: An analytic flexion formalism for realistic mass profiles
- Globular cluster systems in fossil groups: NGC6482, NGC1132 and ESO306-017
- An Environmental Study of the Ultraluminous X-ray Source Population in Early-type Galaxies
- A Search for the Most Massive Galaxies. III. Global and Central Structure
- Evolution of growing black holes in axisymmetric galaxy cores
- Nonlinear Color-Metallicity Relations of Globular Clusters. VIII. Reproducing Color Distributions of Individual Globular Cluster Systems in the Virgo and Fornax Galaxy Clusters
- Scaling relations for globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies. II. Is there an environmental dependence?
- The red extended structure of IC10, the nearest blue compact galaxy
- Photometric Properties of the Most Massive High-Redshift Galaxies
- The nuclear activity and central structure of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5322
- AGN Activity in Nucleated Galaxies as Measured by Chandra
- Relating basic properties of bright early-type dwarf galaxies to their location in Abell 901/902
- Compact elliptical galaxies in different local environments: a mixture of galaxies with different origins?
- Nuclear star cluster formation in energy-space
- The Fornax 3D project: dust mix and gas properties in the center of early-type galaxy FCC 167
- Hot gaseous atmospheres of rotating galaxies observed with XMM-Newton
- The kinematic signature of the inspiral phase of massive binary black holes
- Measuring Dark Matter in Galaxies: The Mass Fraction Within 5 Effective Radii
- The properties of the kinematically distinct components in NGC 448 and NGC 4365
- The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey XVI. The Angular Momentum of Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies from Globular Cluster Satellites
- Probing the inner kpc of massive galaxies with strong gravitational lensing
- Early-type galaxies in the Antlia Cluster: A deep look into scaling relations
- Spatial Structures In the Globular Cluster Distribution of the Ten Brightest Virgo Galaxies
- A Virtual Observatory Census to Address Dwarfs Origins. AVOCADO - I. Science goals, sample selection and analysis tools
- Abundance ratios in dwarf elliptical galaxies
- GALFIT-CORSAIR: implementing the core-Sersic model into GALFIT
- Brought to Light II: Revealing the Origins of Cloaked Spiral Features in Cluster Passive Dwarf Galaxies
- Inverted metallicity gradients in two Virgo cluster star-forming dwarf galaxies: evidence of recent merging?
- Globular Clusters: DNA of Early-Type galaxies?
- An extremely low gas-to-dust ratio in the dust-lane lenticular galaxy NGC 5485
- A Wide-field Photometric Survey of Globular Clusters in the Peculiar Early-type Galaxy M85
- Core shapes and orientations of core-Sersic galaxies
- Potential Black Hole Seeding of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 4424 via an Infalling Star Cluster
- The first gigayear of bulge star formation in Virgo ellipticals: constraints from their globular cluster systems
- Surface Brightness and Intrinsic Luminosity of Ellipticals
- About the linearity of the color-magnitude relation of early-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster
- Too big to be real? No depleted core in Holm 15A
- NGC4370: a case study for testing our ability to infer dust distribution and mass in nearby galaxies
- Supermassive black hole spin-flip during the inspiral
- A possible signature of the influence of tidal perturbations in dwarf galaxy scaling relations
- Bulgeless galaxies in the COSMOS field: environment and star formation evolution at
- Tidal Stripping of Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster
- The scaling relations of early-type dwarf galaxies across a range of environments
- The Abell 85 BCG: a nucleated, core-less galaxy
- Resolved Stellar Mass Maps of Galaxies in the Hubble Frontier Fields: Evidence for Mass Dependency in Environmental Quenching
- The size--mass and other structural parameter () relations for local bulges/spheroids from multicomponent decompositions
- The Observational and Theoretical Tidal Radii of Globular Clusters in M87
- Young Globular Clusters in an old S0: Clues to the Formation History of NGC 4570
- Tilted outer and inner structures in edge-on galaxies?
- Chandra Detection of Intra-cluster X-ray sources in Virgo
- The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. XII. Diffuse Star Clusters in Early-type Galaxies
- Magnetically Induced Anisotropies in the Arrival Directions of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays from Nearby Radio Galaxies
- Gemini/GMOS Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters in the Merger Remnant Galaxy M85
- Impact of Galaxy Mergers on Stellar Population Profiles of Early-type Galaxies
- Brought to Light I: Quantification of Disk Substructure in Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies
- Globular Cluster Systems of Massive Compact Elliptical Galaxies in the Local Universe: Evidence for Relic Red Nuggets?
- Galaxy Core Formation by Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: the Importance of Realistic Initial Conditions and Galaxy Morphology
- Galaxy populations in groups and clusters: evidence for a characteristic stellar mass scale at
- An Unexplained Origin for the Unusual Globular Cluster System in the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy FCC 224
- Central X-ray point-sources found to be abundant in low-mass, late-type galaxies predicted to contain an intermediate-mass black hole
- Mirages in galaxy scaling relations
- Hubble Space Telescope Near Infrared Snapshot Survey of 3CR radio source counterparts III: Radio galaxies and quasars in context
- An Explanation for the Slopes of Stellar Cusps in Galaxy Spheroids
- How non-linear scaling relations unify dwarf and giant elliptical galaxies
- The complex globular cluster system of the S0 galaxy NGC 4382 in the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster
- The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey. XV. Planck submillimetre sources in the Virgo Cluster
- The Nuker model for galactic nuclei
- Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center?
- The XMM-Newton Bright Survey sample of absorbed quasars: X-ray and accretion properties
- Supermassive binary black hole mergers
- Early Type Galaxy Core Phase Densities
- Normal Globular Cluster Systems in Massive Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
- X-ray Constraints on the Hot Gas Content of Early-type Galaxies in Virgo
- Young Nuclei in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies
- Stellar Relaxation Processes Near the Galactic Massive Black Hole
- Modelling dust rings in early-type galaxies through a sequence of radiative transfer simulations and 2D image fitting
- Evolutionary properties of the low-luminosity galaxy population in the NGC5044 Group
- Trends in Dwarf Early-Type Kinematics with Cluster-centric Radius Driven By Tidal Stirring
- The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXIII. Stellar Population Gradients in the Virgo Cluster Core Globular Cluster System
- Wide-field study of the peculiar globular cluster system hosted by the field lenticular NGC 1172
- Down but not out: properties of the molecular gas in the stripped Virgo Cluster early-type galaxy NGC4526
- A Supra-galactic Conundrum: The Globular Clusters Colour Pattern in Virgo Galaxies
- Arp 116: Interacting System or Chance Alignment?
- Mass Modelling with Minimum Kinematic Information
- The Starburst-AGN connection: The role of stellar clusters in AGNs
- AMUSE-VIRGO. III: mid-infrared photometry of early-type galaxies and limits on obscured nuclear emission
- The Properties of Nuclear Star Clusters and their Host Galaxies
- Another look at the size of the low-surface brightness galaxy VCC 1661 in the Virgo Cluster
- The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XVII. A Search for Planetary Nebulae in Virgo Cluster Globular Clusters
- Constraints on the Inner Regions of Lensing Galaxies from Central Images using a Recent AGN Offset Distribution
- Early-type galaxies in the Antlia Cluster: Catalogue and isophotal analysis
- Accretion and nuclear activity in Virgo early-type galaxies
- LeMMINGs. VI. Connecting nuclear activity to bulge properties of active and inactive galaxies: radio scaling relations and galaxy environment
- The tidal filament of NGC 4660
- Growth of A Massive Black Hole Via Tidal Disruption Accretion
- Mysterious Globular Cluster System of the Peculiar Massive Galaxy M85
- A catalogue of nuclear stellar velocity dispersions of nearby galaxies from H STIS spectra to constrain supermassive black hole masses
- Renormalized 2PN spin contributions to the accumulated orbital phase for LISA sources
- Detecting Intermediate-Mass Black Holes out to 20 Mpc with ELT/HARMONI: The Case of FCC 119
- Reorientation Rates of Structural and Kinematic Axes in Simulated Massive Galaxies and the Origins of Prolate Rotation
- The Color Gradients of the Globular Cluster Systems in M87 and M49
- Modeling Tidal Streams and Tidal Tails around Galaxies Using Deep Wendelstein Imaging Data
- The Spectroscopy and H-band Imaging of Virgo cluster galaxies (SHIVir) Survey: Data Catalogue and Kinematic Profiles
- Elliptical (E) and ellicular (ES) galaxies in the M_bh-M_*,sph diagram, and a merger-driven explanation for the origin of ES galaxies, anti-truncated stellar discs in lenticular galaxies, and the Sersicification of E galaxy light profiles
- Dwarf galaxies in the MATLAS Survey: Hubble Space Telescope observations of nuclear star clusters
- The fragility of thin discs in galaxies -- II. Thin discs as tracers of the assembly history of galaxies
- Connecting the dots: Tracing the evolutionary pathway of Polar Ring Galaxies in the cases of NGC 3718, NGC 2685, and NGC 4262
- A continuum of structure and stellar content from Virgo cluster early-type dwarfs to giants?
- The Halos and Environments of Nearby Galaxies (HERON) Survey
- LeMMINGs. V. Nuclear activity and bulge properties: a detailed multi-component decomposition of -MERLIN Palomar galaxies with
- Past, present and Future of the Scaling Relations of Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei
- The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XL. The Morphological Classification of Virgo Cluster Galaxies
- Deep photometry of galaxies in the VEGAS survey: the case of NGC 4472
- DOPING: a New Non-parametric Deprojection Scheme
- Renormalized spin coefficients in the accumulated orbital phase for unequal mass black hole binaries
- Connections between Central Intensity Ratio and hot gas properties of early-type galaxies
- An Assessment of the In-Situ Growth of the Intracluster Light in the High Redshift Galaxy Cluster SpARCS1049+56
- A thick-disk galaxy model and simulations of equal-mass galaxy pair collisions
- AGN jets and a fanciful trio of black holes in the Abell 85 Brightest Cluster Galaxy
- Massive black hole formation in dense stellar environments: Enhanced X-ray detection rates in high velocity dispersion nuclear star clusters
- The most massive galaxies with large depleted cores: structural parameter relations and black hole masses
- Brought to Light III: Colors of Disk and Clump Substructures in Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies of the Fornax Cluster
- The kinematics of Core and Cusp galaxies: comparing HST imaging and integral-field observations
- An Extended, Physically Calibrated FP for Elliptical Galaxies
- Non-solar abundance ratios trends of dEs in Fornax Cluster using newly defined high resolution indices