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Observed metal abundances in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy groups and clusters, $Z_{ICM}$, exceed what is expected from present-day stellar populations alone. Galaxy clusters are presumed to be near closed-box systems, allowing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-21 Anne E Blackwell , Joel N Bregman , Sophia Chan Davis

The metal content of clusters of galaxies and its relation to their stellar content is revisited making use of a cluster sample for which all four basic parameters are homogeneously measured within consistent radii, namely core-excised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Renzini , S. Andreon

We present the analysis of deep X-ray observations of 10 massive galaxy clusters at redshifts $1.05 < z < 1.71$, with the primary goal of measuring the metallicity of the intracluster medium (ICM) at intermediate radii, to better constrain…

We investigate the environmental effect on the metal enrichment of star-forming galaxies (SFGs) in the farthest spectroscopically confirmed and X-ray detected cluster, CL~J1449+0856 at $z=1.99$. We combined HST/WFC3~G141 slitless…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 F. Valentino , E. Daddi , V. Strazzullo , R. Gobat , M. Onodera , F. Bournaud , S. Juneau , A. Renzini , N. Arimoto , M. Carollo , A. Zanella

We use Chandra X-ray data to measure the metallicity of the intracluster medium (ICM) in 245 massive galaxy clusters selected from X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect surveys, spanning redshifts $0<z<1.2$. Metallicities were measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-17 Adam B. Mantz , Steven W. Allen , R. Glenn Morris , Aurora Simionescu , Ondrej Urban , Norbert Werner , Irina Zhuravleva

In this work, we study the chemical compositions and kinematic properties of six metal-poor stars with [Fe/H] $< -2.5$ in the Galactic halo. From high-resolution (R $\sim$~110,000) spectroscopic observations obtained with the Lick/APF, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Mohammad K. Mardini , Vinicius M. Placco , Ali Taani , Haining Li , Gang Zhao

We present the resolved stellar populations in the inner and outer halo of the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC~3115. Using deep HST observations, we analyze stars two magnitudes fainter than the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB). We study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Mark B. Peacock , Jay Strader , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Jean P. Brodie

We conduct a comprehensive investigation of the detectability of the first stars and their enrichment signatures in galaxy clusters. We show that the mean metallicity of outflows from objects containing these Population III (PopIII) stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Evan Scannapieco , Raffaella Schneider , Andrea Ferrara

An Early Enrichment Population (EEP) has been theorized to produce the observed intracluster medium (ICM) metallicity of galaxy clusters. This population likely existed at high redshifts (z$\sim$10), relics of which we posit exist today as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-26 Anne E. Blackwell , Joel N. Bregman

We explore a scenario where metal-poor globular clusters (GCs) are enriched by the first supernovae in the Universe. If the first stars in a 10^7 Msun dark halo were very massive (>180 Msun), then a pair instability supernova from a single…

The metallicity in galaxy clusters is expected to originate from the stars in galaxies, with a population dominated by high mass stars likely being the most important stellar component, especially in rich clusters. We examine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Joel N. Bregman , Michael E. Anderson , Xinyu Dai

Clusters of galaxies allow a direct estimate of the metallicity and metal production yield on the largest scale so far. The ratio of the total iron mass in the ICM to the total optical luminosity of the cluster (the iron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alvio Renzini

Recent X-ray observations of galaxy clusters show that the distribution of intra-cluster medium (ICM) metallicity is remarkably uniform in space and time. In this paper, we analyse a large sample of simulated objects, from poor groups to…

We present new JWST NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) G395H/F290LP observations of a merging galaxy system at $z=7.88$, part of A2744-z7p9, the most distant protocluster to date. The IFU cube reveals [OIII] emissions in two previously known…

We present the results of an X-ray spectral analysis of 153 galaxy clusters observed with the Chandra, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku space telescopes. These clusters, which span 0 < z < 1.5, were drawn from a larger, mass-selected sample of galaxy…

We introduce a stochastic halo formation model to compute the early chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium (ISM) of the halo. Contrary to 1-zone chemical evolution models, we are able to resolve local inhomogeneities in the ISM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Argast , M. Samland , O. E. Gerhard , F. -K. Thielemann

We report the first high spectral resolution study of 17 M giants kinematically confirmed to lie within a few parsecs of the Galactic Center, using R=24,000 spectroscopy from Keck/NIRSPEC and a new linelist for the infrared K band. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-29 R. M. Rich , N. Ryde , B. Thorsbro , T. K. Fritz , M. Schultheis , L. Origlia , H. Jönsson

The hot gas that fills the space between galaxies in clusters is rich in metals. In their large potential wells, galaxy clusters accumulate metals over the whole cluster history and hence they retain important information on cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Lovisari , S. Schindler , W. Kapferer

Aims. The goal of this work is to devise a description of the enrichment process in large-scale structure that explains the available observations and makes predictions for future measurements. Methods. We took a spartan approach to this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-08 S. Molendi , S. Ghizzardi , S. De Grandi , M. Balboni , I. Bartalucci , D. Eckert , F. Gastaldello , L. Lovisari , G. Riva , M. Rossetti

We analyse the chemical properties of three z~8 galaxies behind the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327, observed as part of the Early Release Observations programme of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Exploiting [O III]4363 auroral…

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