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Next Generation Fornax Survey (NGFS) II.

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We present a photometric study of the dwarf galaxy population in the core region (<~r_vir_/4) of the Fornax galaxy cluster based on deep u'g'i' photometry from the Next Generation Fornax Cluster Survey.

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All imaging data were obtained with the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4m Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. We identify 258 dwarf galaxy candidates with luminosities -17<~Mg'<~-8mag, corresponding to typical stellar masses of 9.5>~logM*/M_{sun}_>~5.5, reaching ~3mag deeper in point-source luminosity and ~4mag deeper in surface brightness sensitivity compared to the classic Fornax Cluster Catalog.

Morphological analysis shows that the dwarf galaxy surface-brightness profiles are well represented by single-component Sersic models with average Sersic indices of <n>_u',g',i'_=(0.78-0.83)+/-0.02 and average effective radii of <r_e_>_u',g',i'_=(0.67-0.70+/-0.02kpc. Color-magnitude relations indicate a flattening of the galaxy red sequence at faint galaxy luminosities, similar to the one recently discovered in the Virgo cluster.

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A comparison with population synthesis models and the galaxy mass-metallicity relation reveals that the average faint dwarf galaxy is likely older than ~5Gyr. We study galaxy scaling relations between stellar mass, effective radius, and stellar mass surface density over a stellar mass range covering six orders of magnitude. We find that over the sampled stellar mass range several distinct mechanisms of galaxy mass assembly can be identified: (1) dwarf galaxies assemble mass inside the half-mass radius up to logM*~8.0, (2) isometric mass assembly occurs in the range 8.0<~logM*/M_{sun}_<~10.5, and (3) massive galaxies assemble stellar mass predominantly in their halos at logM*~10.5 and above.

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