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The TNG300-1 run of the IllustrisTNG simulations includes 1697 clusters of galaxies with $M_{200c}>10^{14}$M$_\odot$ covering the redshift range $0.01-1.04$. We build mock spectroscopic redshift catalogues of simulated galaxies within these…

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We conduct a comparison of the merging galaxy populations detected by a sample of visual identification of tidal features around galaxies as well as spectroscopically-detected close pairs of galaxies to determine whether our method of…

We combine data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA) to study the cold atomic gas content of galaxies in groups and clusters in local universe. A careful cross-matching of galaxies in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 Ilsang Yoon , Jessica L. Rosenberg

We present a new semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, GECO (Galaxy Evolution COde), aimed at a better understanding of when and how the two processes of star formation and galaxy assembly have taken place. Our model is structured into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Ricciardelli , A. Franceschini

We exploit the group environment of the CAmbridge Sloan Survey Of Wide ARcs in the skY (CASSOWARY) z=0.3 lens J2158+0257 to measure the group dynamical mass as a complement to the central dynamical and lensing mass constraints. Follow-up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. J. Deason , M. W. Auger , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) is an optical wide-field survey designed to map the matter distribution in the Universe using weak gravitational lensing. In this paper, we use these data to measure the density profiles and masses of a sample…

The mass measurement of galaxy clusters is an important tool for the determination of cosmological parameters describing the matter and energy content of the Universe. However, the standard methods rely on various assumptions about the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Martina Falco , Steen H. Hansen , Radoslaw Wojtak , Thejs Brinckmann , Mikkel Lindholmer , Stefania Pandolfi

We study the mass-to-light ratio of galaxy systems from poor groups to rich clusters, and present for the first time a large database for useful comparisons with theoretical predictions. We extend a previous work, where B_j band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Girardi , P. Manzato , M. Mezzetti , G. Giuricin , F. Limboz

There are many proposed mechanisms driving the morphological transformation of disk galaxies to elliptical galaxies. In this paper, we determine if the observed transformation in low mass groups can be explained by the merger histories of…

We investigate the power of the caustic technique for identifying substructures of galaxy clusters from optical redshift data alone. The caustic technique is designed to estimate the mass profile of galaxy clusters to radii well beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Heng Yu , Ana Laura Serra , Antonaldo Diaferio , Marco Baldi

The physically motivated definition of galaxy size proposed recently, linked to the farther location of the in situ star formation, considerably reduces the scatter of the galaxy mass-size relation and provides a viable method to infer the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Ignacio Trujillo

Identifying galaxy groups from redshift surveys of galaxies plays an important role in connecting galaxies with the underlying dark matter distribution. Current and future high-$z$ spectroscopic surveys, usually incomplete in redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Kai Wang , H. J. Mo , Cheng Li , Jiacheng Meng , Yangyao Chen

We use the UniverseMachine to analyze the source of scatter between the central galaxy mass, the total stellar mass in the halo, and the dark matter halo mass. We also propose a new halo mass estimator, the cen+N mass: the sum of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Christopher Bradshaw , Alexie Leauthaud , Andrew Hearin , Song Huang , Peter Behroozi

We present a comparison of major methodologies of fast generating mock halo or galaxy catalogues. The comparison is done for two-point and the three-point clustering statistics. The reference catalogues are drawn from the BigMultiDark…

The estimation of the bulge and disk massses, the main baryonic components of a galaxy, can be performed using various approaches, but their implementation tend to be challenging as they often rely on strong assumptions about either the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-28 Jessica N. Lopez Sanchez , Erick Munive Villa , Ana A. Avilez Lopez , Oscar M. Martinez Bravo

We compare halo mass estimates from three galaxy group catalogs (redMaPPer, Yang21, and Zou21) with those derived from gravitational lensing measurements. Each catalog employs distinct methodologies, including mass-richness relations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Xinyue Chen , Weiwei Xu , Ran Li , Huanyuan Shan , Ji Yao , Chunxiang Wang

Galaxy populations show bimodality in a variety of properties: stellar mass, colour, specific star-formation rate, size, and S\'ersic index. These parameters are our feature space. We use an existing sample of 7556 galaxies from the Galaxy…

We aim to investigate the galaxy environment in GAMA Galaxy Groups Catalogue (G3C) using a volume-limited galaxy sample from the Kilo Degree Survey Data Release 3. The k-Nearest Neighbour technique is adapted to take into account the…

We use the Updated Zwicky Catalog of galaxies (Falco et al. 1999) to generate a catalog of groups, by means of a friend-of-friend algorithm. The correlation length of the total sample is well fitted with a power law $ \xi(r)=(r/r_0)^\gamma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Manuel E. Merchan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Diego G. Lambas

The massive dark matter halos that host groups and clusters of galaxies have observable properties that appear to be log-normally distributed about power-law mean scaling relations in halo mass. Coupling this assumption with either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 August E. Evrard , Pablo Arnault , Dragan Huterer , Arya Farahi