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2012ApJ...745..130R - Astrophys. J., 745, 130 (2012/February-1)

Early-type galaxies at z ∼ 1.3. IV. Scaling relations in different environments.

RAICHOOR A., MEI S., STANFORD S.A., HOLDEN B.P., NAKATA F., ROSATI P., SHANKAR F., TANAKA M., FORD H., HUERTAS-COMPANY M., ILLINGWORTH G., KODAMA T., POSTMAN M., RETTURA A., BLAKESLEE J.P., DEMARCO R., JEE M.J. and WHITE R.L.

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We present the Kormendy and mass-size relations (MSR) for early-type galaxies (ETGs) as a function of environment at z ∼ 1.3. Our sample includes 76 visually classified ETGs with masses 1010 < M/M< 1011.5, selected in the Lynx supercluster and in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey/Chandra Deep Field South field; 31 ETGs in clusters, 18 in groups, and 27 in the field, all with multi-wavelength photometry and Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys observations. The Kormendy relation, in place at z ∼ 1.3, does not depend on the environment. The MSR reveals that ETGs overall appear to be more compact in denser environments: cluster ETGs have sizes on average around 30%-50% smaller than those of the local universe and a distribution with a smaller scatter, whereas field ETGs show an MSR with a similar distribution to the local one. Our results imply that (1) the MSR in the field did not evolve overall from z ∼ 1.3 to present; this is interesting and in contrast to the trend found at higher masses from previous works; (2) in denser environments, either ETGs have increased in size by 30%-50% on average and spread their distributions, or more ETGs have been formed within the dense environment from non-ETG progenitors, or larger galaxies have been accreted to a pristine compact population to reproduce the MSR observed in the local universe. Our results are driven by galaxies with masses M ≲ 2x1011 M and those with masses M ∼ 1011 M follow the same trends as that of the entire sample. Following the Valentinuzzi et al. definition of superdense ETGs, ∼35%-45% of our cluster sample is made up of superdense ETGs.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: clusters: individual (RX J0849+4452, RX J0848+4453) - galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: formation - galaxies: fundamental parameters - galaxies: high-redshift

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