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Tracing cosmic evolution with the Coma cluster

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We summarize here the first results of a new spectroscopic survey of galaxies in the Coma cluster with -20.5 < M_B < -14. Differences between the last epoch of star formation (SF) activity in S0 and elliptical galaxies are discussed. Furthermore, we show that about half of all galaxies without present-day SF display signs of activity at z < 1-2. Systematic trends of most recent SF epoch with galaxy luminosity are presented.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0110170,
  title  = {Tracing cosmic evolution with the Coma cluster},
  author = {Bianca M. Poggianti and Terry J. Bridges and Bahram Mobasher and Dave Carter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0110170},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the meeting "Tracing cosmic evolution with galaxy clusters" (Sesto Pusteria 3-6 July 2001), ASP Conference Series in press