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The environment plays a critical role in galaxy evolution, with galaxy clusters and their infall regions offering diverse conditions that shape galaxies before they enter the dense cluster core, a process known as ``pre-processing''.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Rhys Jordan , Meghan E. Gray , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca , Steven P. Bamford , Frazer R. Pearce , Roan Haggar

The cosmic web plays a major role in the formation and evolution of galaxies and defines, to a large extent, their properties. However, the relation between galaxies and environment is still not well understood. Here we present a machine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Jianan Hui , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Xinping Cui , James M. Flegal

The distribution of galaxies on the mass-size plane as a function of redshift or environment is a powerful test for galaxy formation models. Here we use integral-field stellar kinematics to interpret the variation of the mass-size…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-01 Michele Cappellari

In an earlier paper we quantified the mean merger rate of dark matter haloes as a function of redshift z, descendant halo mass M0, and progenitor halo mass ratio xi using the Millennium simulation of the LCDM cosmology. Here we broaden that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Onsi Fakhouri , Chung-Pei Ma

We discover alignment of galaxies in clusters by analyzing the distribution of their position angles. We assume that galaxies are aligned, if their number at one 90deg position angle interval is more than twice higher than at another 90deg…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-08 Hrant M. Tovmassian , J. P. Torres-Papaqui

To investigate the environment effects on size growth of galaxies, we study the size-mass relation across a broad range of environment with a vast sample of approximately 32 million galaxies at z < 0.5 from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-29 Zhaobin Chen , Yizhou Gu , Hu Zou , Qirong Yuan

We explore the radial distribution of star formation in galaxies in the SAMI Galaxy Survey as a function of their local group environment. Using a sample of galaxies in groups (with halo masses less than $ \simeq 10^{14} \,…

A catalogue of superclusters of galaxies is used to investigate the influence of the supercluster environment on galaxy populations, considering galaxies brighter than M$_r<$-21+5$\log$ h. Empirical spectral synthesis techniques are applied…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. V. Costa-Duarte , L. Sodre , F. Durret

Clusters of galaxies generally form by the gravitational merger of smaller clusters and groups. Major cluster mergers are the most energetic events in the Universe since the Big Bang. Mergers drive shocks into the intracluster gas, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig L. Sarazin

We investigate the impact of mergers on the mass estimation of galaxy clusters using $N$-body + hydrodynamical simulation data. We estimate virial mass from these data and compare it with real mass. When the smaller subcluster's mass is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Motokazu Takizawa , Ryo Nagino , Kyoko Matsushita

Recent results are presented on the metal enrichment of low-mass star-forming (SF) galaxies in local Universe clusters. The environmental effects on the chemical evolution of these galaxies are discussed. We have used spectroscopic data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-08 Vasiliki Petropoulou , Jose Manuel Vilchez , Jorje Iglesias-Paramo

We investigated the typical environment and physical properties of "red discs" and "blue bulges", comparing those to the "normal" objects in the blue cloud and red sequence. Our sample is composed of cluster members and field galaxies at $z…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-14 P. A. A. Lopes , S. B. Rembold , A. L. B. Ribeiro , R. S. Nascimento , B. Vajgel

Connecting high-redshift galaxies to their low-redshift descendants is one of the most important and challenging tasks of galaxy evolution studies. In this work, we investigate whether incorporating high-redshift environmental factors…

We estimate the evolution of the galaxy-galaxy merger fraction for $M_\star>10^{10.5}M_\odot$ galaxies over $0.25<z<1$ in the $\sim$18.6 deg$^2$ deep CLAUDS+HSC-SSP surveys. We do this by training a Random Forest Classifier to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Nathalie Thibert , Marcin Sawicki , Andy Goulding , Stephane Arnouts , Jean Coupon , Stephen Gwyn

We explore the galaxy-galaxy merger rate with the empirical model for galaxy formation, Emerge. On average, we find that between $2$ per cent and $20$ per cent of massive galaxies ($\log_{10}(m_{*}/M_{\odot}) \geq 10.3$) will experience a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-19 Joseph A. O'Leary , Benjamin P. Moster , Thorsten Naab , Rachel S. Somerville

We present a comprehensive analysis of galaxy close-pair fractions and major merger rates to evaluate the importance of mergers in the hierarchical growth of galaxies over cosmic time. This study focuses on the previously poorly understood…

The nonthermal radiation observed from a handfull of clusters of Galaxies is the proof that particle acceleration occurs in the intracluster medium. It is often believed that shock surfaces associated with either mergers of clusters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pasquale Blasi , Stefano Gabici

We present a high-resolution set of adiabatic binary galaxy cluster merger simulations using FLASH. These are the highest-resolution simulations to date of such mergers using an AMR grid-based code with Eulerian hydrodynamics. In this first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 John ZuHone

Optical and X-ray studies have established the prevalence of significant substructure in clusters of galaxies, indicating that clusters are young systems, and that recent major mergers have occurred in many clusters. Numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Moss

We study the stellar mass distribution for galaxies in 160 X-ray detected groups of 10^13<Log(M_200/M_sun)<2x10^14 and compare it with that of galaxies in the field, to investigate the action of environment on the build up of the stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Giodini , A. Finoguenov , D. Pierini , G. Zamorani , O. Ilbert , S. Lilly , Y. Peng , N. Scoville , M. Tanaka