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Galaxies in Hickson Compact Group 91 (HCG 91) were observed with the WiFeS integral field spectrograph as part of our ongoing campaign targeting the ionized gas physics and kinematics inside star forming members of compact groups. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 F. P. A. Vogt , M. A. Dopita , S. Borthakur , L. Verdes-Montenegro , T. M. Heckman , M. S. Yun , K. C. Chambers

With targeted imaging of groups in the local volume, the regions of collapse around bright galaxies can be clearly identified by the distribution of dwarfs and luminosity functions can be established to very faint levels. In the case of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Brent Tully

We present deep H{\alpha} imaging of seven Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs) using the 4.1m Southern Astrophysics Research (SOAR) Telescope. The high spatial resolution of the observations allow us to study both the integrated star-formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-08 Paul Eigenthaler , Sylvia Ploeckinger , Miguel Verdugo , Bodo Ziegler

We present the broad-band UV through mid-infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of a sample of 72 spectroscopically-confirmed star-forming galaxies at z=2.30+/-0.3. Located in a 72 arcmin-squared field centered on the bright…

We explore the near-infrared (NIR) $K$-band properties of galaxies within 93 galaxy clusters and groups using data from the 2MASS. We use X-ray properties of these clusters to pinpoint cluster centers and estimate cluster masses. By…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yen-Ting Lin , Joseph J. Mohr , S. Adam Stanford

We present Hubble Space Telescope NIC2 morphologies of a spectroscopic sample of massive galaxies at z~2.3, by extending our sample of 9 compact quiescent galaxies (r_e~0.9 kpc) with 10 massive emission-line galaxies. The emission-line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Mariska Kriek , Pieter G. van Dokkum , Marijn Franx , Garth D. Illingworth , Daniel K. Magee

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of three compact galaxy groups, HCGs 16, 22, and 42, which describe a sequence in terms of gas richness, from space- (Swift, HST, Spitzer) and ground-based (LCO, CTIO) imaging and spectroscopy. We…

There is a lack of large samples of spectroscopically confirmed clusters and protoclusters at high redshifts, $z>$1.5. Discovering and characterizing distant (proto-)clusters is important for yielding insights into the formation of…

Using HST/WFPC2 imaging in F606W (or F450W) and F814W filters, we obtained the color maps in observed frame for 36 distant (0.4<z<1.2) luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs), with average star formation rates of ~100 M_sun/yr. Stars and compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Z. Zheng , F. Hammer , H. Flores , F. Assemat , D. Pelat

Compact groups of dwarf galaxies (CGDs) have been observed at low redshifts ($z<0.1$) and are direct evidence of hierarchical assembly at low masses. To understand the formation of CGDs and the galaxy assembly in the low-mass regime, we…

We present the results of the spectral classification of the 82 brightest galaxies in a sample of 17 compact groups. We verify that the AGNs are preferentially located in the most early-type and luminous galaxies of the groups, as is…

A comprehensive study on compactness has been carried out on the 2dF Galaxy Group Catalogue constructed by Merch\'an & Zandivarez. The compactness indexes defined in this work take into account different geometrical constraints in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Zandivarez , M. J. L. Dominguez , C. J. Ragone , H. Muriel , H. J. Martinez

We present an analysis of deep WSRT observations of the HI in 33 nearby early-type galaxies selected from a sample studied earlier at optical wavelengths with the SAURON integral-field spectrograph. The sample covers both field environments…

We study the nature of faint, red-selected galaxies at z ~ 2-3 using the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) and Spitzer IRAC photometry. We detect candidate galaxies to H < 26 mag, probing lower-luminosity (lower mass) galaxies at these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amelia M. Stutz , Casey Papovich , Daniel J. Eisenstein

A diffuse component of intra-group light can be observed in compact groups of galaxies. This component is presumably due to stellar material tidally stripped from the member galaxies of the group, which gets trapped in the group potential.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristiano Da Rocha , Claudia Mendes de Oliveira , Bodo L. Ziegler

We have identified 335 galaxy cluster and group candidates, 106 of which are at z > 1, using a 4.5 um selected sample of objects from a 7.25 deg^2 region in the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Shallow Survey. Clusters were identified…

We measure the diversity of galaxy groups and clusters with mass M>1E13/h Msun, in terms of the star formation history of their galaxy populations, for the purpose of constraining the mass scale at which environmentally-important processes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Michael L. Balogh , Sean L. McGee

We have obtained $H_{\alpha}$ fluxes and luminosities for a sample of 95 accordant galaxies from observations of 31 Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs) in the North hemisphere. This sample is the largest $H_{\alpha}$ selected catalogue of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Severgnini , P. Saracco