Features of Fundamental Plane for Early-Type Galaxies by Clausius' Virial theory

Abstract

AbstractThe theory of the Fundamental Plane (FP) proposed by Secco (2005) is based on the existence of a maximum in the Clausius' Virial (CV) potential energy of a stellar component when it is completely embedded inside a dark matter (DM) halo. At the first order approximation the theory was developed by modeling the two-components with two power-law density profiles and it produces some expectations in fairly good agreement with the observations. We add other predictions of the theory at the same level of approximation about the Zone of Exclusion (ZOE) in k-space and its possible relationship with cosmological scenario. Some of the consequences of the thermodynamical properties of CV maximum are also taken into account.