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We examine the orientations of galaxies in 43 rich Abell galaxy clusters belonging to superclusters and containing at least 100 members in the considered area as a function of supercluster multiplicity. It is found that the orientation of…

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We measure the topology of volume-limited galaxy samples selected from a parent sample of 314,050 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS), which is now complete enough to describe the fully three-dimensional topology and its…

We use a sample of close galaxy pairs selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (SDSS DR4) to investigate in what environments galaxy mergers occur and how the results of these mergers depend on differences in local galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sara L. Ellison , David R. Patton , Luc Simard , Alan W. McConnachie , Ivan K. Baldry , J. Trevor Mendel

We measure the topology of the main galaxy distribution using the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, examining the dependence of galaxy clustering topology on galaxy properties. The observational results are used to test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yun-Young Choi , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , J. Richard Gott , David H. Weinberg , Michael S. Vogeley , Sungsoo S. Kim

We study the correlation between different properties of bright (L>L*) galaxies in clusters and the environment in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Samples of clusters of galaxies used in this paper are those selected by Coenda & Muriel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hector J. Martinez , Valeria Coenda , Hernan Muriel

We present a highly simplified model of the dynamical structure of a disk galaxy where only two parmeters fully determine the solution, mass and angular momentum. We show through simple physical scalings that once the mass has been fixed,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 X. Hernandez , B. Cervantes-Sodi

The morphology-density relationship states that dense cosmic environments such as galaxy clusters have an overabundance of quiescent elliptical galaxies, but it is unclear at which redshift this relationship is first established. We study…

[abridged] We analyze a sample of 9 massive clusters at 0.4<z<0.6 observed with MegaCam in 4 photometric bands (g,r,i,z) from the core to a radius of 5 Mpc (~4000 galaxies). Galaxy cluster candidates are selected using photometric redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Huertas-Company , G. Foex , G. Soucail , R. Pello

We explore the morphological and dynamical evolution of galaxy clusters in simulations using scalar and vector-valued Minkowski valuations and the concept of fundamental plane relations. In this context, three questions are of fundamental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-07 C. Beisbart , R. Valdarnini , T. Buchert

We have constructed a large, uniform galaxy cluster catalog from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. By studying the morphology--cluster-centric-radius relation, we have found two characteristic environments where galaxy morphologies change…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomotsugu Goto

The kinematic morphology-density relation of galaxies is normally attributed to a changing distribution of galaxy stellar masses with the local environment. However, earlier studies were largely focused on slow rotators; the dynamical…

The diversity of galaxy morphologies and their relations with galaxy and halo properties is fundamental to understanding galaxy formation. Cosmological simulations of representative volumes can help disentangle the origin of observed…

Galaxy morphologies in clusters have undergone a remarkable transition over the past several billion years. Distant clusters at $z \sim 0.4$ are filled with small spiral galaxies, many of which are disturbed and show evidence of multiple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ben Moore , George Lake , Neal Katz

We study the influence of the various parameters of scenarios of large-scale structure formation on properties of galaxy clusters, and investigate which cluster properties are most sensitive to these parameters. We present a set of large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Pascal de Theije , Eelco van Kampen , Remco Slijkhuis

We present an analysis of the spatial orientations of galaxies in the 247 optically selected rich Abell clusters, having in the considered area at least 100 members. We investigated the relation between angles giving information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Paulina Piwowarska , Elena Panko , Piotr Flin

We use \sim 2000 galaxies belonging to different environments to show how the fractions of different galaxy morphological types vary with global environment and as function of galaxy stellar mass at low redshift. Considering mass limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rosa Calvi , Bianca M. Poggianti , Giovanni Fasano , Benedetta Vulcani

Galaxy properties are known to be affected by their environment. This is well established for the extremes of the density scales, between the high-density cluster environment and the low-density field. It is however not fully understood how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-20 Callum J. O'Kane , Ulrike Kuchner , Meghan E. Gray , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca

Cosmological parameters such as $\Omega_{\rm{M}}$ and $\sigma_{8}$ can be measured indirectly using various methods, including galaxy cluster abundance and cosmic shear. These measurements constrain the composite parameter $S_{8}$, leading…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Roan Haggar , Yuba Amoura , Charlie T. Mpetha , James E. Taylor , Kris Walker , Chris Power

To study how the environment can influence the relation between stellar mass and effective radius of nearby galaxies (z < 0.12), we use a mass-complete sample extracted from the NYU-Value Added Catalogue. This sample contains almost 232000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 María Cebrián , Ignacio Trujillo