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We describe a wavelet transform analysis of the ROSAT PSPC images of the Coma cluster. On small scales, ~< 1', the wavelet analysis shows substructure dominated by two extended sources surrounding the two brightest cluster galaxies NGC 4874…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Vikhlinin , W. Forman , C. Jones

We have obtained a mosaic of CCD images of the Coma cluster in the V-band covering a region of approximately 0.4 degrees$^2$ around both central cluster galaxies NGC 4889 and NGC 4874. An additional frame of $\sim$ 90 arcmin$^2$ was taken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. Lobo , A. Biviano , F. Durret , D. Gerbal , O. Le Fèvre , A. Mazure , E. Slezak

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

Globular cluster systems of 17 elliptical galaxies have been studied in the Coma cluster of galaxies. Surface-brightness fluctuations have been used to determine total populations of globular clusters and specific frequency (S_N) has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Marin-Franch , A. Aparicio

We constrain the assembly history of galaxies in the projected central 0.5 Mpc of the Coma cluster by performing structural decomposition on 69 massive (M_star >= 10^9 M_sun) galaxies using high-resolution F814W images from the HST Treasury…

[Abridged] We determined the luminosity function (LF) of the Coma cluster galaxies selected by luminosity, and the LF bi-variate in central brightness. The Coma cluster and control fields were imaged using the CFH12K (42x28 arcmin) and UH8K…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Andreon , J. -C. Cuillandre

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 a quantitative morphological analysis of 187 galaxies in a region covering the central 0.28 square degrees of the Coma cluster. Structural parameters from the best-fitting Sersic r^{1/n} bulge plus, where appropriate, exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. M. Gutierrez , I. Trujillo , J. A. L. Aguerri , A. W. Graham , N. Caon

The Coma cluster is one of the richest known cluster of galaxies, spanning about 4 dex in density. Hence it is the ideal place to study the structure of galaxies as a function of environmental density in order to constrain the theories of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Doerte Mehlert , Roberto P. Saglia , Ralf Bender , Gary Wegner

We have obtained wide field images of the Coma cluster in the B, V, R and I bands with the CFH12K camera at CFHT. In order to search for large scale diffuse emission, we have applied to these images an iterative multi scale wavelet analysis…

We use ACS data from the HST Treasury survey of the Coma cluster (z~0.02) to study the properties of barred galaxies in the Coma core, the densest environment in the nearby Universe. This study provides a complementary data point for…

The dependence of flattening of galaxies on the density of galaxies in subclusters selected around galaxies NGC4889, NGC4874 and NGC4839 in the Coma cluster has been studied. The mean values of observed ratios of galaxy diameters and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-04 N. G. Kogoshvili , T. M. Borchkhadze , A. T. Kalloghlian

Detection and study of the intracluster light in rich clusters of galaxies has been a problem of long standing challenge and interest. Using the lowest surface brightness images of the Coma cluster of galaxies in the g and r bands, from the…

Six subclusters in the Coma cluster have been selected on the basis of a hierarchical clustering method that takes the gravitational interaction among galaxies into account. Of these, three main subclusters around the galaxies NGC 4889, NGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 N. G. Kogoshvili , T. M. Borchkhadze , A. T. Kalloghlian

We study the physical properties of weak-lensing subhalos in the Coma cluster of galaxies using data from galaxy redshift surveys. The data include 12989 galaxies with measured spectroscopic redshifts (2184 from our MMT/Hectospec…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Wooseok Kang , Ho Seong Hwang , Nobuhiro Okabe , Changbom Park

The stability and longevity of globular clusters (GCs) make them effective tracers of the dynamical histories of galaxies in cluster environments. We construct a catalog of 23,351 GC candidates in the Coma cluster using imaging from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Richard T. Pomeroy , Juan P. Madrid , Conor R. O'Neill , Alexander T. Gagliano

The Chandra image of the central region of the Coma cluster reveals that both its dominant galaxies, NGC4874 and NGC4889, retain the central parts of their X-ray gas coronae. The interstellar gas with a temperature of 1-2 keV is confined by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Vikhlinin , M. Markevitch , W. Forman , C. Jones

We study the dwarf galaxy population in the central ~700 arcmin^2 of the Coma cluster, the majority of which are early-type dwarf elliptical (dE) galaxies. Analysis of the statistically-decontaminated dE galaxy sequence in the…

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

In this paper we study the stellar populations of 356 bright, $M_{r}$ $\leq$ -19, Coma cluster members located in a 2 degree field centred on the cluster core using SDSS DR7 spectroscopy. For the quiescent galaxies we find strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 James Price , Steve Phillipps , Avon Huxor , Russell J Smith , John R Lucey

The processes that form and shape galaxy clusters, such as infall, mergers and dynamical relaxation, tend to generate distinguishable differences between the distributions of a cluster's giant and dwarf galaxies. Thus the dynamics of dwarf…