Bibcode
Calvi, R.; Poggianti, Bianca M.; Fasano, Giovanni; Vulcani, Benedetta
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 419, Issue 1, pp. L14-L18.
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2012
Citations
59
Refereed citations
56
Description
We use ˜2000 galaxies from PM2GC (Calvi, Poggianti & Vulcani
2011a) belonging to different environments to show how the fractions of
different galaxy morphological types vary with global environment and as
function of galaxy stellar mass at low redshift. Considering
mass-limited galaxy samples with
log10M★/M⊙≥ 10.25, we find
a smooth increase/decline in the fraction of Es-S0s/late-type galaxies
going from single galaxies, to binaries, to groups. Considering all
environments, the fractional variation is more conspicuous for S0s and
late types than for ellipticals solely due to a sharp enhancement/dearth
of S0s/late types in clusters compared to other environments. The
morphological distribution of galaxies in the mass range 10.25 <
log10M★/M⊙ < 11 is rather
independent of both galaxy stellar mass and global environment, except
in clusters. The morphologies of galaxies more massive than
log10M★/M⊙= 11 are instead a
function of both galaxy mass and global environment. The morphology-mass
relation therefore changes with global environment, showing that galaxy
stellar mass cannot be the only parameter driving the morphological
distribution of galaxies. The morphology-mass relations for S0 and
late-type galaxies in clusters are peculiar compared to other
environments, and this strongly suggests that cluster-specific effects
act on these two types of galaxies, and that a significant number of S0s
in clusters has a different origin with respect to S0s in other
environments.