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Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: Detection of Intra-cluster Light at Redshift $\sim$ 0.25

Using data collected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we report the detection of intracluster light (ICL) with $\sim300$ galaxy clusters in the redshift range of 0.2-0.3. We design methods to mask detected galaxies and stars in the images…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Y. Zhang , B. Yanny , A. Palmese , D. Gruen , C. To , E. S. Rykoff , Y. Leung , C. Collins , M. Hilton , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. Da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garc'Ia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , W. Wester

Multiscale exploration of SMACS J0723.3--7327's intracluster light and past dynamical history

In this work an analysis of the intracluster light (ICL) in the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327 (hereafter, SMACS J0723) using JWST/NIRCam deep imaging in six filters (F090W to F444W) is presented. The images were processed for low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-28 Amaël Ellien

Mature but Still Growing: JWST Detection of the Earliest Intracluster Light at z ~ 2

We present a JWST analysis of intracluster light (ICL) in XLSSC 122 at z = 1.98, currently the most distant known strong lensing galaxy cluster with an evolved member population. Using deep JWST imaging complemented by HST data and careful…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-05 Hyungjin Joo , M. James Jee , Kyle Finner , Zachary P. Scofield , Sangjun Cha , Jinhyub Kim , Ranga-Ram Chary , Andreas Faisst , Bomee Lee

Coevolution of Intracluster Light and Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Context. Intracluster Light (ICL) is a faint stellar component of galaxy groups and clusters bound to the cluster potential, and making up a significant fraction of the cluster mass. ICL formation and evolution is strongly linked to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Rebecca J. Mayes , Facundo A. Gómez , Antonela Monachesi

Preparing for low surface brightness science with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory: A Comparison of Observable and Simulated Intracluster Light Fractions

Intracluster Light (ICL) provides an important record of the interactions galaxy clusters have undergone. However, we are limited in our understanding by our measurement methods. To address this we measure the fraction of cluster light that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Sarah Brough , Syeda Lammim Ahad , Yannick M. Bahe , Amaël Ellien , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Yolanda Jiménez-Teja , Lucas C. Kimmig , Garreth Martin , Cristina Martínez-Lombilla , Mireia Montes , Annalisa Pillepich , Rossella Ragusa , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Chris A. Collins , Johan H. Knapen , J. Chris Mihos

The Origin and Properties of Intracluster Stars in a Rich Cluster

We use a multi million particle N-body + SPH simulation to follow the formation of a rich galaxy cluster in a Lambda+CDM cosmology, with the goal of understanding the origin and properties of intracluster stars. The simulation includes gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Beth Willman , Fabio Governato , James Wadsley , Thomas Quinn

Intracluster Light in the Virgo Cluster: Large Scale Distribution

The intracluster light (ICL) is a faint diffuse stellar component in clusters made of stars not bound to individual galaxies. We have carried out a large scale study of this component in the nearby Virgo cluster. The diffuse light is traced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nieves Castro-Rodriguez , Magda Arnaboldi , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri , Ortwin Gerhard , Sadanori Okamura , Naoki Yasuda , Kenneth C. Freeman

An Investigation of intra-cluster light evolution using cosmological hydro-dynamical simulations

The intra-cluster light (ICL) in observations is usually identified through the surface brightness limit method. In this paper, for the first time we produce the mock images of galaxy groups and clusters using a cosmological hydro-…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Lin Tang , WeiPeng Lin , Weiguang Cui , Xi Kang , Yang Wang , E. Contini , Yu Yu

A new era of intracluster light studies with JWST

Still largely unexplored, the diffuse light in cluster of galaxies traces the past and on-going buildup of these massive structures. Here, we present the first comprehensive study of the intracluster light (ICL) of the cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Mireia Montes , Ignacio Trujillo

Characterising the intra-cluster light in The Three Hundred simulations

We characterise the intra-cluster light (ICL) in ensembles of full-physics cluster simulations from The Three Hundred project, a suite of 324 hydrodynamical resimulations of cluster-sized halos. We identify the ICL as those stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Ana Contreras-Santos , Alexander Knebe , Weiguang Cui , Isaac Alonso Asensio , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Rodrigo Cañas , Roan Haggar , Robert A. Mostoghiu Paun , Frazer Pearce , Elena Rasia

Intra Cluster Light properties in the CLASH-VLT cluster MACS J1206.2-0847

We aim at constraining the assembly history of clusters by studying the intra cluster light (ICL) properties, estimating its contribution to the fraction of baryons in stars, f*, and understanding possible systematics/bias using different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 V. Presotto , M. Girardi , M. Nonino , A. Mercurio , C. Grillo , P. Rosati , A. Biviano , M. Annunziatella , I. Balestra , W. Cui , B. Sartoris , D. Lemze , B. Ascaso , J. Moustakas , H. Ford , A. Fritz , O. Czoske , S. Ettori , U. Kuchner , M. Lombardi , C. Maier , E. Medezinski , A. Molino , M. Scodeggio , V. Strazzullo , P. Tozzi , B. Ziegler , M. Bartelmann , N. Benitez , L. Bradley , M. Brescia , T. Broadhurst , D. Coe , M. Donahue , R. Gobat , G. Graves , D. Kelson , A. Koekemoer , P. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , J. Merten , L. Moustakas , E. Munari , M. Postman , E. Regős , S. Seitz , K. Umetsu , W. Zheng , A. Zitrin

Unveiling the dynamical state of massive clusters through the ICL fraction

We have selected a sample of eleven massive clusters of galaxies observed by the Hubble Space Telescope in order to study the impact of the dynamical state on the IntraCluster Light (ICL) fraction, the ratio of total integrated ICL to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Y. Jiménez-Teja , R. Dupke , N. Benítez , A. M. Koekemoer , A. Zitrin , K. Umetsu , B. L. Ziegler , B. L. Frye , H. Ford , R. J. Bouwens , L. D. Bradley , T. Broadhurst , D. Coe , M. Donahue , G. J. Graves , C. Grillo , L. Infante , S. Jouvel , D. D. Kelson , O. Lahav , R. Lazkoz , D. Lemze , D. Maoz , E. Medezinski , P. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , A. Mercurio , J. Merten , A. Molino , L. A. Moustakas , M. Nonino , S. Ogaz , A. G. Riess , P. Rosati , J. Sayers , S. Seitz , W. Zheng

Diffuse Optical Light in Galaxy Clusters I: Abell 3888

We are undertaking a program to measure the characteristics of the intracluster light (total flux, profile, color, and substructure) in a sample of 10 galaxy clusters with a range of cluster mass, morphology, and redshift. We present here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. E. Krick , R. A. Bernstein , K. A. Pimbblet

Characterizing Intra-cluster light in the Hubble Frontier Fields

We investigate the intra-cluster light (ICL) in the 6 Hubble Frontier Field clusters at $0.3<z<0.6$. We employ a new method, which is free from any functional form of the ICL profile, and exploit the unprecedented depth of this Hubble Space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Takahiro Morishita , Louis E. Abramson , Tommaso Treu , Kasper B. Schmidt , Benedetta Vulcani , Xin Wang

On The Origin And Evolution Of The Intra-Cluster Light: A Brief Review Of The Most Recent Developments

Not all the light in galaxy groups and clusters comes from stars that are bound to galaxies. A significant fraction of it constitutes the so-called intracluster or diffuse light (ICL), a low surface brightness component of groups/clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-10 Emanuele Contini

Spectroscopic Constraints on the Build-up of the Intracluster Light in the Coma Cluster

The stellar content of the intracluster light (ICL) provides unique insight into the hierarchical assembly process of galaxy clusters.However, the ICL is difficult to study due to its low surface brightness and large physical extent. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-01 Meng Gu , Charlie Conroy , David Law , Pieter van Dokkum , Renbin Yan , David Wake , Kevin Bundy , Alexa Villaume , Roberto Abraham , Allison Merritt , Jielai Zhang , Matthew Bershady , Dmitry Bizyaev , Kaike Pan , Daniel Thomas , Anne-Marie Weijmans

Characterizing Diffused Stellar Light in simulated galaxy clusters

[Abridged] In this paper, we carry out a detailed analysis of the performance of two different methods to identify the diffuse stellar light in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters. One method is based on a dynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Weiguang Cui , G. Murante , P. Monaco , S. Borgani , G. L. Granato , M. Killedar , G. De Lucia , V. Presotto , K. Dolag

Theoretical Predictions of Colors and Metallicity of the Intra-Cluster Light

We study colors and metallicities of the Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and Intra-Cluster Light (ICL) in galaxy groups and clusters, as predicted by a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, coupled with a set of high-resolution N-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 E. Contini , S. K. Yi , X. Kang

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- The Intracluster Light of Abell 2390

Intracluster light (ICL) provides a record of the dynamical interactions undergone by clusters, giving clues on cluster formation and evolution. Here, we analyse the properties of ICL in the massive cluster Abell 2390 at redshift z=0.228.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-11 A. Ellien , M. Montes , S. L. Ahad , P. Dimauro , J. B. Golden-Marx , Y. Jimenez-Teja , F. Durret , C. Bellhouse , J. M. Diego , S. P. Bamford , A. H. Gonzalez , N. A. Hatch , M. Kluge , R. Ragusa , E. Slezak , J. -C. Cuillandre , R. Gavazzi , H. Dole , G. Mahler , G. Congedo , T. Saifollahi , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , A. Balestra , S. Bardelli , A. Basset , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , A. Bonchi , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , A. Caillat , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , C. J. Conselice , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , A. M. Di Giorgio , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Farina , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , J. Hoar , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , K. Kuijken , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , R. Laureijs , D. Le Mignant , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , R. C. Nichol , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , R. Scaramella , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , E. Sefusatti , G. Seidel , M. Seiffert , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , A. Tsyganov , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , O. R. Williams , E. Zucca , M. Bolzonella , C. Burigana , V. Scottez

The progenitors of the intra-cluster light and intra-cluster globular clusters in galaxy groups and clusters

We use the IllustrisTNG50 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, complemented by a catalog of tagged globular clusters, to investigate the properties and build up of two extended luminous components: the intra-cluster light (ICL) and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-25 Niusha Ahvazi , Laura V. Sales , Jessica E. Doppel , Andrew Benson , Richard D'Souza , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez