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We report direct evidence of pre-processing of the galaxies residing in galaxy groups falling into galaxy clusters drawn from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). 34 groups have been identified via their X-ray emission in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Matteo Bianconi , Graham P. Smith , Chris P. Haines , Sean L. McGee , Alexis Finoguenov , Eiichi Egami

We have observed three fields of the Coma cluster of galaxies with a narrow band (modified Stromgren) filter system. Observed galaxies include 31 in the vicinity of NGC 4889, 48 near NGC 4874, and 60 near NGC 4839 complete to M_5500=-18 in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Odell , J. Schombert , K. Rakos

We present integral-field spectroscopy of 27 galaxies in the Coma cluster observed with the Oxford SWIFT spectrograph, exploring the kinematic morphology-density relationship in a cluster environment richer and denser than any in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. C. W. Houghton , Roger L. Davies , F. D'Eugenio , N. Scott , N. Thatte , F. Clarke , M. Tecza , G. S. Salter , L. M. R. Fogarty , T. Goodsall

In the last decade, extended stellar clusters with masses in the range from a few 10^4 to 10^8 M_sun have been found in various types of galaxies in different environments. Objects with masses comparable to normal globular clusters (GCs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. C. Bruens , P. Kroupa , M. Fellhauer , M. Metz , P. Assmann

We present two newly-discovered, compact elliptical (cE) galaxies, which exhibit clear evidence of tidal steams, found in a search of SDSS DR7. The structural parameters of the cEs are derived using GALFIT and give effective radii < 400 pc.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Avon Huxor , Steve Phillipps , James Price , Rob Harniman

Recent studies have shown that massive quiescent galaxies at high redshift are much more compact than present-day galaxies of the same mass. Here we compare the radial stellar density profiles and the number density of a sample of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Rachel Bezanson , Pieter G. van Dokkum , Tomer Tal , Danilo Marchesini , Mariska Kriek , Marijn Franx , Paolo Coppi

We derive central values and logarithmic gradients for the Hbeta, Mg and Fe indices of 35 early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster. We find that pure elliptical galaxies have on average slightly higher velocity dispersions, lower Hbeta, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Mehlert , D. Thomas , R. P. Saglia , R. Bender , G. Wegner

In this paper we present the structural properties and morphology of galaxies in the central region of the Coma Cluster brighter than $19.5^m$ in the $F814W$ band. from the HST/ACS Coma Cluster Treasury Survey. Using mainly spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 P. Nagamani , P. Hasan , S N Hasan

We report the discovery of 47 low surface brightness objects in deep images of a 3 x 3 degree field centered on the Coma cluster, obtained with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The objects have central surface brightness mu(g,0) ranging from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Pieter van Dokkum , Roberto Abraham , Allison Merritt , Jielai Zhang , Marla Geha , Charlie Conroy

Keck spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 imaging over a 1.5x1.5 Mpc field of CL1358+62 at z=0.33 are used to study the Fundamental Plane of galaxies based on a new, large sample of 53 galaxies. First, we have constructed the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel D. Kelson , Garth D. Illingworth , Pieter G. van Dokkum , Marijn Franx

As part of the HST/ACS Coma Cluster Treasury Survey, we have undertaken a Keck/LRIS spectroscopic campaign to determine membership for faint dwarf galaxies. In the process, we discovered a population of Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kristin Chiboucas , R. Brent Tully , Ronald O. Marzke , Steven Phillipps , James Price , Eric W. Peng , Neil Trentham , David Carter , Derek Hammer

Deep B- and R-band CCD images of the central ~700 arcmin^2 of the Coma cluster core have been used to measure the dwarf-galaxy population in Coma. In this paper, we describe a newly developed code for automated detection, photometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jeff Secker , William E. Harris

We have obtained new CCD photometry for a sample of $\simeq 800$ early-type galaxies (dwarf and giant ellipticals) in the central 700 arcmin$^2$ of the Coma cluster, complete in color and in magnitude to $R = 22.5$ mag ($M_R \simeq -12$ mag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeff Secker , William E. Harris

The nature of Compact Groups (CGs) is investigated by comparing the luminosities and morphologies of CG galaxies, CG Neighbours and Isolated galaxies. CGs turn out to include more early type galaxies than Isolated galaxies and fewer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Kelm Birgit , Focardi Paola

We search the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Baryon Oscillation Sky Survey to identify ~5500 massive compact quiescent galaxy candidates at 0.2<z<0.8. We robustly classify a subsample of 438 E+A galaxies based on their spectral properties…

We discuss the structural and morphological properties of galaxies in a z=1.62 proto-cluster using near-IR imaging data from Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 data of the Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey…

Intracluster stellar populations are a natural result of tidal interactions in galaxy clusters. Measuring these populations is difficult, but important for understanding the assembly of the most massive galaxies. The Coma cluster is one of…

We present clear and direct evidence of the pre-processing effect of group galaxies falling into clusters in the local Universe ($z \lesssim 0.1$). We start with a sample of 238 clusters, from which we select 153 with N$_{200} \ge$ 20. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 P. A. A. Lopes , A. L. B. Ribeiro , D. Brambila

Compact Groups (CGs) of galaxies are dense systems where projected separations are comparable to their optical diameters. A subset - non-isolated CGs - are embedded within major structures. Using multi-band S-PLUS data, we analyse galaxies…

The population of compact massive galaxies observed at z > 1 are hypothesised, both observationally and in simulations, to be merger remnants of gas-rich disc galaxies. To probe such a scenario we analyse a sample of 12 gas-rich and active…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Ricciardelli , I. Trujillo , F. Buitrago , C. J. Conselice