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We present the results of our X-shooter observations for a sample of dwarf (\(-17 < M_{B} < -15\)) galaxies in nearby (0. 040 < z < 0. 068) galaxy clusters of the WINGS sample. The study of galaxies in this faint luminosity range is fundamental to trace the evolution of high-z star-forming cluster galaxies down to the present day. We measure the velocity dispersion of 22 galaxies in this range of luminosity and we explore their scaling relations. We found that the Fundamental Plane has a peculiar feature, suggesting the existence of some kind of warping at low luminosities.
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We acknowledge partial financial support by contract PRIN/MIUR 2009: “Dynamics and Stellar Populations of Superdense Galaxies” (Code: 2009L2J4MN); by INAF/PRIN 2011: “Galaxy Evolution with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST)” and INAF/PRIN2014:“Galaxy evolution from cluster cores to filaments”.
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Bettoni, D. et al. (2016). The Properties of Faint Galaxies in Nearby Clusters of the WINGS Sample. In: Napolitano, N., Longo, G., Marconi, M., Paolillo, M., Iodice, E. (eds) The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_29
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