Structural properties of dwarf ellipticals and the connection with (ordinary) elliptical galaxies

Structural properties of dwarf ellipticals and the connection with (ordinary) elliptical galaxies

This article reviews the popular reasons for the belief that dwarf elliptical galaxies and (ordinary) elliptical galaxies are distinct and separate species. They include: light–profile shape (or similarly image concentration); the magnitude–central surface brightness diagram; the magnitude–effective surface brightness diagram (or similarly the magnitude–effective radius diagram); and the Fundam...

Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies

Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies

Dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies, with blue absolute magnitudes typically fainter thanMB = 16, are the most numerous type of galaxy in the nearby universe. Tremendous advances have been made over the past several years in delineating the properties of both Local Group satellite dE's and the large dE populations of nearby clusters. We review some of these advances, with particular attention to how...

Stellar Populations of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: Ubvri Photometry of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

We present UBVRI surface photometry for 16 dwarf elliptical galaxies in the Virgo Cluster with previously measured kinematic properties. The global optical colors are red, with median values for the sample of 0.24 ± 0.03 in (U–B), 0.77 ± 0.02 in (B– V), and 1.02 ± 0.03 in (V–I). We recover the well known color-magnitude relation for cluster galaxies, but find no significant difference in domina...

Evolution of dwarf-elliptical galaxies

Here we present as an extension to already published models of massive spherical galaxies one-dimensional chemodynamical models of dwarf elliptical galaxies in the mass range between 10 and 10 M and initial density fluctuation of 1σ and 3σ. Because of their vanishing angular momentum the models are restricted to spherical symmetry. Due to this limitation the dynamics of the different components...