Bibcode
DOI
Falcón-Barroso, Jesús; Peletier, Reynier F.; Vazdekis, Alexandre; Balcells, Marc
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 588, Issue 1, pp. L17-L20.
Fecha de publicación:
5
2003
Revista
Número de citas
35
Número de citas referidas
31
Descripción
We present measurements of the near-infrared Ca II triplet (CaT, CaT*),
Paschen (PaT), and magnesium (Mg I) indices for a well-studied sample of
19 bulges of early to intermediate spiral galaxies. We find that both
the CaT* and CaT indices decrease with central velocity dispersion
σ with small scatter. This dependence is similar to that recently
found by Cenarro for elliptical galaxies, implying a uniform
CaT*-σ relation that applies to galaxies from ellipticals to
intermediate-type spirals. The decrease of CaT and CaT* with σ
contrasts with the well-known increase of another α-element index,
Mg2, with σ. We discuss the role of Ca underabundance
([Ca/Fe]<0) and initial mass function variations in the onset of the
observed relations.