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A Homogeneous Sample of Binary Galaxies: Basic Observational Properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

I. D. Karachentsev
I. D. Karachentsev*
Affiliation:
Special Astrophysical Observatory, USSR Academy of Sciences st. Zelenchukskaya, Stavropol Territory, 357147, USSR

Abstract

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A survey of optical characteristics for 585 binary systems, satisfying a condition of apparent isolation on the sky, is presented. Influences of various selection effects distorting the average parameters of the sample are noted. The pair components display mutual similarity over all the global properties: luminosity, diameter, morphological type, mass-to-luminosity ratio, angular momentum etc., which is not due only to selection effects. The observed correlations must be caused by common origin of pair members. Some features (nuclear activity, color index) could acquire similarity during synchronous evolution of double galaxies.

Despite the observed isolation, the sample of double systems is seriously contaminated by accidental pairs, and also by members of groups and clusters. After removing false pairs estimates of orbital mass-to-luminosity ratio range from 0 to 30 f⊙, with the mean value (7.8 ± 0.7) f⊙. Binary galaxies possess nearly circular orbits with a typical eccentrity e = 0.25, probably resulting from evolutionary selection driven by component mergers under dynamical friction. The double-galaxy population with space abundance 0.12±0.02 and characteristic merger timescale 0.2 H−1 may significantly influence the rate of dynamical evolution of galaxies.

Type
I. Classical Observations of Pairs
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 124: Paired and Interacting Galaxies , 1990 , pp. 3 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1990

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