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Dark matter-dominated cluster-scale halos act as an important cosmological probe and provide a key testing ground for structure formation theory. Focusing on their mass profiles, we have carried out (gravity-only) simulations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Suman Bhattacharya , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Alexey Vikhlinin

We undertake a systematic analysis of the early (< 0.5 Myr) evolution of clustering and the stellar initial mass function in turbulent fragmentation simulations. These large scale simulations for the first time offer the opportunity for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Th. Maschberger , C. J. Clarke , I. A. Bonnell , P. Kroupa

We investigate the globular cluster (GC) system scaling parameters as a function of galaxy mass, i.e. specific frequency (S_N), specific luminosity (S_L), specific mass (S_M), and specific number (^T) of GCs. We sample the entire range in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Iskren Y. Georgiev , Thomas H. Puzia , Paul Goudfrooij , Michael Hilker

We study the dynamical properties of massive quiescent galaxies at $1.4 < z < 2.1$ using deep Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/F160W imaging and a combination of literature stellar velocity dispersion measurements and new near-infrared spectra…

An essential component of galaxy formation theory is the stellar initial mass function (IMF), that describes the parent distribution of stellar mass in star forming regions. We present observational evidence in a sample of early-type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 I. Ferreras , F. La Barbera , R. R. de Carvalho , I. G. de la Rosa , A. Vazdekis , J. Falcon-Barroso , E. Ricciardelli

Given a flurry of recent claims for systematic variations in the stellar initial mass function (IMF), we carry out the first inventory of the observational evidence using different approaches. This includes literature results, as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Crescenzo Tortora , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Nicola R. Napolitano

We use a new redshift survey complete to m_R=15.4 within 4.25 deg from the center of the Coma cluster to measure the mass profile of the cluster to r=5.5 Mpc/h. We extend the profile to r=10 Mpc/h with a further sample complete to m_R=15.4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. Geller , Antonaldo Diaferio , M. J. Kurtz

We perform a spectroscopic study to constrain the stellar Initial Mass Function (IMF) by using a large sample of 24,781 early-type galaxies from the SDSS-based SPIDER survey. Clear evidence is found of a trend between IMF and central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. La Barbera , I. Ferreras , A. Vazdekis , I. G. de la Rosa , R. R. de Carvalho , M. Trevisan , J. Falcón-Barroso , E. Ricciardelli

We present preliminary results from our spectroscopic survey of low-luminosity early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster conducted with the Binospec spectrograph at the 6.5~m MMT. From spatially-resolved profiles of internal kinematics and…

By constructing scaling relations for galaxies in the massive cluster MACSJ0717.5 at $z=0.545$ and comparing with those of Coma, we model the luminosity evolution of the stellar populations and the structural evolution of the galaxies. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 L. J. Oldham , R. C. W. Houghton , Roger L. Davies

We have studied 116 bright galaxies from the Coma cluster brighter than $m_{r}=17$ mag. From a quantitative morphological analysis we find that the scales of the disks are smaller than those of field spiral galaxies. There is a correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. A. L. Aguerri , J. Iglesias-Paramo , J. M. Vichez , C. Muñoz-Tuñón

We present results from XMM-Newton observations of ten high-redshift ($0.81 < z < 1.17$) galaxy clusters selected from the CAMIRA catalog based on high richness ($N > 40$). These massive clusters, identified in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru…

Galaxy scaling relations, which describe a connection between ostensibly unrelated physical characteristics of galaxies, testify to an underlying order in galaxy formation that requires understanding. I review the development of a scaling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-21 Dennis Zaritsky

We examine the fraction of early-type (and spiral) galaxies found in groups and clusters of galaxies as a function of dark matter halo mass. We use morphological classifications from the Galaxy Zoo project matched to halo masses from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ben Hoyle , Karen. L. Masters , Robert C. Nichol , Raul Jimenez , Steven P. Bamford

A physical description of the fundamental plane of Galactic globular clusters is developed which explains all empirical trends and correlations in a large number of cluster observables and provides a small but complete set of truly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dean E. McLaughlin

We investigate the stellar populations in a sample of 89 faint (M*+2 to M*+4) red galaxies in the Coma cluster, using high S/N spectroscopy from the MMT. Our sample is drawn from two 1-degree fields, one centred on the cluster core and the…

This is the third of a series of papers in which we derive simultaneous constraints on cosmological parameters and X-ray scaling relations using observations of the growth of massive, X-ray flux-selected galaxy clusters. Our data set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 David Rapetti , Steven W. Allen , Adam Mantz , Harald Ebeling

We determine the luminosity function (LF) of galaxies in the core of the Coma cluster for M_R<=-11.4 (assuming H_0=75 km/s/Mpc), a magnitude regime previously explored only in the Local Group. Objects are counted in a deep CCD image of Coma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 G. M. Bernstein , R. C. Nichol , J. A. Tyson , M. P. Ulmer , D. Wittman

Systematic variations of the IMF in early-type galaxies, and their connection with possible drivers such as velocity dispersion or metallicity, have been much debated in recent years. Strong lensing over galaxy scales combined with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Dominik Leier , Ignacio Ferreras , Prasenjit Saha , Stéphane Charlot , Gustavo Bruzual , Francesco La Barbera

(Abridged) Accurate luminosity functions (LF) for a dozen globular clusters have now been measured at or just beyond their half-light radius using HST. They span almost the entire cluster main sequence below ~ 0.75 Msolar. All these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Francesco Paresce , Guido De Marchi