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Clumpy galaxies in the GEMS and GOODS fields are examined for clues to their evolution into modern spirals. The magnitudes of the clumps and the surface brightnesses of the interclump regions are measured and fitted to models of stellar age…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Debra Meloy Elmegreen , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Max T. Marcus , Karlen Shahinyan , Andrew Yau , Michael Petersen

We develop a general theory for estimating the probability that a galaxy cluster of a given shape exists. The theory is based on the observed result that the distribution of galaxies is very close to quasi-equilibrium, in both its linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-11 Abel Yang , William C. Saslaw

We investigate the formation of clusters of galaxies in an expanding universe using a new code that regrids at a region of high density. In particular we investigate two models for the initial conditions, both with the standard CDM power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Suvendra N. Dutta

We discuss a method to constrain the intrinsic three-dimensionale shapes of galaxy clusters by combining X-Ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich observations. The method is applied to a sample of 25 X-Ray selected clusters, with measured…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 E. De Filippis , M. Sereno , M. W. Bautz , G. Longo

Clusters of galaxies are the largest organized structures in the Universe. They are important cosmological probes, since they are large enough to contain a fair sample of the materials in the Universe, but small enough to have achieved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Craig L. Sarazin

In hierarchical cosmologies the evolution of galaxy clustering depends both on cosmological quantities such as Omega and Lambda, which determine how dark matter halos form and evolve, and on the physical processes - cooling, star formation…

Clusters of galaxies, being dark matter dominated, have long been and still are the ideal cosmological targets to study the nature of dark matter. Constraints on the nature of dark matter comes in particular from the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-06 A. Biviano

Galaxies have clearly evolved since the universe was 1 Gyr old, but methods to trace and quantify this evolution are still in their infancy. In this paper I demonstrate that with the careful use of a `physical morphology' it is possible to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Christopher J. Conselice

Evolutions of X-ray clusters of galaxies are studied by N-body (shell model) + mesh code (TVD) simulations on the assumption of spherical symmetry. We consider a density perturbation of $10^{15} M_{\odot}$ composed of dark matter and gas in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Motokazu Takizawa , Shin Mineshige

Context. Galaxy clusters are the last and largest objects to form in the standard hierarchical structure formation scenario through merging of smaller systems. The substructure frequency in the past and present epoch provides excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-24 A. Weißmann , H. Böhringer , G. Chon

We investigated the evolution of clusters of galaxies using self-consistent $N$-body simulations in which each galaxy was modeled by many particles. We carried out simulations for about 20 cases using different initial conditions. In all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Sensui , Y. Funato , J. Makino

We made a detailed analysis of the sample of 39 cluster spiral galaxies of various types observed at H$\alpha$ wavelength by Amram et al. (1992 to 1996), with a scanning Fabry-Perot. We plotted the outer gradient of their rotation curves as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Adami , M. Marcelin , P. Amram , D. Russeil

We investigate whether the dynamical status of clusters is related to the large-scale structure of the Universe. We find that cluster substructure is strongly correlated with the tendency of clusters to be aligned with their nearest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Plionis , S. Basilakos

We analyze the physical properties of stellar clusters that are detected in massive star-forming regions in the MYStIX project--a comparative, multiwavelength study of young stellar clusters within 3.6 kpc that contain at least one O-type…

We determine the age of 1,104 early-type galaxies in eight rich clusters ($z = 0.0046$ to $0.175$) using a new continuum color technique. We find that galaxies in clusters divide into two populations, an old population with a mean age…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Rakos , J. Schombert , A. Odell

The properties of galaxies are strongly correlated with their environment, with red galaxies dominating galaxy clusters and blue galaxies dominating the general field. However, not all field galaxies are young: studies of the colors, line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pieter van Dokkum , Ryan Quadri

Although numerous studies of individual galaxy clusters have demonstrated the presence of significant substructure, previous studies of the distribution of masses of galaxy clusters determined from optical observations have failed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Christina M. Bird

Clump clusters and chain galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field are examined for bulges in the NICMOS images. Approximately 50% of the clump clusters and 30% of the chains have relatively red and massive clumps that could be young bulges.…

Until now it has been impossible to observationally measure how star cluster scale height evolves beyond 1Gyr as only small samples have been available. Here we establish a novel method to determine the scale height of a cluster sample…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Anne S. M. Buckner , Dirk Froebrich

We will discuss here how structures observed in clusters of galaxies can provide us insight on the formation and evolution of these objects. We will focus primarily on X-ray observations and results from hydrodynamical $N$-body simulations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-06 Gastao B. Lima Neto , Tatiana F. Lagana , Felipe Andrade-Santos , Rubens E. G. Machado