Photometric analysis of Abell 1689

Bontà, Elena Dalla; Davies, Roger L.; Houghton, Ryan C. W.; D'Eugenio, Francesco; Corsini, Enrico M.; Méndez-Abreu, J.
Bibliographical reference

The Intriguing Life of Massive Galaxies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 295, pp. 230-230

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2013
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6
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1
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0
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Description
We carried out a photometric analysis of a sample of early-type galaxies in Abell~1689 at z = 0.183, using HST/ACS archive images in the rest-frame V band. We performed a two-dimensional photometric decomposition of each galaxy surface-brightness distribution using the GASP2D fitting algorithm (Méndez-Abreu et al. 2008). We adopted both a Sérsic and de Vaucouleurs law. S0 galaxies were analysed also taking into account a disc component described by an exponential law. The derived photometric parameters, together with the ones previously obtained with the curve of growth method (Houghton et al. 2012), will be used to analyse the Fundamental Plane of Abell 1689 and quantify how it is affected by the use of different decomposition techniques (Dalla Bontà et al. 2013, in preparation). The stellar velocity dispersions of the sample galaxies were derived by using GEMINI-N/GMOS and VLT/FLAMES (D'Eugenio et al. 2013) spectroscopic data.