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We introduce a framework for simultaneously investigating the structure and luminosity evolution of early-type gravitational lens galaxies. The method is based on the fundamental plane, which we interpret using the aperture mass-radius…

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Using stellar population synthesis models to infer star formation histories (SFHs), we analyse photometry and spectroscopy of a large sample of quiescent galaxies which are members of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)-selected galaxy clusters across…

[abridged] We analyze a sample of 9 massive clusters at 0.4<z<0.6 observed with MegaCam in 4 photometric bands (g,r,i,z) from the core to a radius of 5 Mpc (~4000 galaxies). Galaxy cluster candidates are selected using photometric redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Huertas-Company , G. Foex , G. Soucail , R. Pello

We compare the results from a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation with spectro-photometric observations of distant galaxy clusters observed in the range 0.8< z< 1.3. We investigate the properties of their red sequence (RS) galaxies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Menci , P. Rosati , R. Gobat , V. Strazzullo , A. Rettura , S. Mei , R. Demarco

The XMM--LSS project is detecting distant clusters of low mass, quite comparable in mass to the ones in the local universe. This allows a direct comparison of galaxy properties at different redshifts in ``similar'' clusters. We present here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Andreon , J. Willis , H. Quintana , I. Valtchanov , M. Pierre , F. Pacaud

Drawing from the LEGA-C dataset, we present the spectroscopic view of the stellar population across a large volume- and mass-selected sample of galaxies at large lookback time. We measure the 4000\AA\ break (D$_n$4000) and Balmer absorption…

Understanding the formation history of brightest cluster galaxies is an important topic in galaxy formation. Utilizing the Planck Sunyaev-Zel'dovich cluster catalog, and applying the Ansatz that the most massive halos at one redshift remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-15 Takahiro Inagaki , Yen-Ting Lin , Hung-Jin Huang , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Naoshi Sugiyama

We investigated the evolution of the physical properties of the brightest galaxies in clusters and their protohalos from $z = 4$ to $z = 0$. Galaxy clusters and groups are identified using a halo-based group finder applied to the COSMOS2020…

We investigate the evolution of the star formation rate in cluster galaxies. We complement data from the CNOC1 cluster survey (0.15<z<0.6) with measurements from galaxy clusters in the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (0.05<z<0.1) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fumiaki Nakata , Richard G. Bower , Michael L. Balogh , David J. Wilman

The large majority of extragalactic star cluster studies done to date have essentially used two or three-passband aperture photometry, combined with theoretical stellar population synthesis models, to obtain age estimates. The accuracy to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard de Grijs

The ``MORPHS'' group has completed the cataloging, parameterization, and morphological classification of ~2000 galaxies in 10 rich clusters from 0.36 < z < 0.56. From a weak lensing analysis using these data, which compares the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Alan Dressler , Ian Smail

We present the results of a wide-field spectroscopic analysis of the galaxy population of the massive cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745 and the surrounding filamentary structure (z=0.55), as part of our systematic study of the 12 most distant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheng-Jiun Ma , Harald Ebeling , David Donovan , Elizabeth Barrett

There are at least three reasons for being interested in galaxies at high redshifts that formed most of their stars quite quickly early in the history of the Universe: (1) the ages of their stellar populations can potentially place…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan Stockton

We present the results of a panoramic (15 Mpc-scale) survey of the Cl0016+16 supercluster (z=0.55) using Spitzer Space Telescope MIPS 24um and Galaxy Evolution Explorer near-UV (2500A; NUV) imaging. The supercluster regions probed are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. E. Geach , R. S. Ellis , Ian Smail , T. D. Rawle , S. M. Moran

Based on VLT/FORS spectroscopy and HST/ACS imaging, we have constructed a sample of ~200 field spiral galaxies that cover redshifts up to z~1. Such a large data set allows to study the evolution of fundamental galaxy parameters like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asmus Boehm , Bodo L. Ziegler

We examine the evolution of the relation between stellar mass surface density, velocity dispersion and half-light radius$-$the stellar mass fundamental plane$-$for quiescent galaxies at $z<0.6$. We measure the local relation from galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 H. Jabran Zahid , Ivana Damjanov , Margaret J. Geller , Ho Seong Hwang , Daniel G. Fabricant

We present deep I and z' imaging of the colour-selected cluster RzCS 052 and study the color-magnitude relation of this cluster, its scatter, the morphological distribution on the red sequence, the luminosity and stellar mass functions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Andreon , E. Puddu , R. De Propris , J. -C. Cuillandre

Using a magnitude-limited, spectroscopic survey of the X-ray luminous galaxy cluster MS1054-03, we isolate 153 cluster galaxies and measure MS1054's redshift and velocity dispersion to be z=0.8307 and sigma_z=1156 km/s. The absorption-line,…

Galaxy clusters at high redshift present a superb opportunity to study galaxy evolution, with large galaxy samples at fixed distances. Several lines of evidence point towards large formation redshifts and passive evolution for cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-02 S. C. Chapman , P. McCarthy , S. E. Persson

Context. Galaxy clusters are the last and largest objects to form in the standard hierarchical structure formation scenario through merging of smaller systems. The substructure frequency in the past and present epoch provides excellent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-24 A. Weißmann , H. Böhringer , G. Chon