- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/570/A40
- Title:
- Spectra of Abell 2384 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/570/A40
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectrophotometric analysis of the galaxy population in the area of the merging cluster Abell 2384 at z=0.094. We investigate the impact of the complex cluster environment on galaxy properties, such as colour, morphology, and star formation rate. We combined multi-object spectroscopy from the 2dF and EFOSC2 spectrographs with optical imaging of the inner 30x30-arcmin of A2384 taken with the ESO Wide Field Imager. We carried out a kinematical analysis using the EMMIX algorithm and biweight statistics. We address the possible presence of cluster substructures with the Dressler-Shectman test. Cluster galaxies are investigated with respect to [OII] and H{alpha} equivalent width. Galaxies covered by our optical imaging observations are additionally analysed in terms of colour, star formation rate, and morphological descriptors, such as Gini coefficient and M20 index. We study cluster galaxy properties as a function of clustercentric distance and investigate the distribution of various galaxy types in colour-magnitude and physical space.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/417/499
- Title:
- Spectrophotometry of Virgo cluster galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/417/499
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Drift-scan mode (3600-6800{AA}) spectra with 500<R<1000 resolution are presented for 333 galaxies members to nearby clusters, covering the whole Hubble sequence. The majority (225) were obtained for galaxies in the Virgo cluster where a completeness of 36%, if all Hubble types are considered, and of 5 %, restricting to late-types, was reached at mp<=16. Our data can be therefore considered representative of the integrated spectral properties of giant and dwarf galaxies in this cluster. Intensities and equivalent widths (EWs) are derived for the principal lines, both in emission and in absorption. Deblending of the underlying absorption from emission was achieved in most cases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/850/181
- Title:
- Spectroscopic analysis of EDisCS clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/850/181
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A major question in galaxy formation is how the gas supply that fuels activity in galaxies is modulated by their environment. We use spectroscopy of a set of well-characterized clusters and groups at 0.4<z<0.8 from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey and compare it to identically selected field galaxies. Our spectroscopy allows us to isolate galaxies that are dominated by old stellar populations. Here we study a stellar-mass-limited sample (log(M*/M_{sun}_)>10.4) of these old galaxies with weak [OII] emission. We use line ratios and compare to studies of local early-type galaxies to conclude that this gas is likely excited by post-AGB stars and hence represents a diffuse gas component in the galaxies. For cluster and group galaxies the fraction with EW([OII])>5{AA} is f[OII]=0.08_-0.02_^+0.03^ and f[OII]=0.06_-0.04_^+0.07^, respectively. For field galaxies we find f[OII]=0.27_-0.06_^+0.07^, representing a 2.8{sigma} difference between the [OII] fractions for old galaxies between the different environments. We conclude that a population of old galaxies in all environments has ionized gas that likely stems from stellar mass loss. In the field galaxies also experience gas accretion from the cosmic web, and in groups and clusters these galaxies have had their gas accretion shut off by their environment. Additionally, galaxies with emission preferentially avoid the virialized region of the cluster in position-velocity space. We discuss the implications of our results, among which is that gas accretion shutoff is likely effective at group halo masses (logM/M_{sun}_>12.8) and that there are likely multiple gas removal processes happening in dense environments.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/188/280
- Title:
- Spectroscopic catalog in 24 clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/188/280
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a spectroscopic catalog of (mostly) red galaxies in 24 galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.17<z<0.92 obtained with the LRIS instrument on the Keck I telescope. Here we describe the observations and the galaxy spectra, including the discovery of three cD galaxies with LINER emission spectra, and the spectroscopic discovery of four new galaxy-galaxy lenses in cluster environments. All but two of the galaxy clusters observed as part of this experiment were previously known.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/122/51
- Title:
- Spectroscopic catalog of 10 rich galaxy clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/122/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present spectroscopic observations of galaxies in the fields of 10 distant clusters for which we have previously presented deep imaging with WFPC2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The clusters span the redshift range z=0.37-0.56 and are the subject of a detailed ground- and space-based study to investigate the evolution of galaxies as a function of environment and epoch. The data presented here include positions, photometry, redshifts, spectral line strengths, and classifications for 657 galaxies in the fields of the 10 clusters. The catalog is composed of 424 cluster members across the 10 clusters and 233 field galaxies, with detailed morphological information from our WFPC2 images for 204 of the cluster galaxies and 71 in the field. We illustrate some basic properties of the catalog, including correlations between the morphological and spectral properties of our large sample of cluster galaxies. A direct comparison of the spectral properties of the high-redshift cluster and field populations suggests that the phenomenon of strong Balmer lines in otherwise passive galaxies (commonly called E + A but renamed here as the k + a class) shows an order-of-magnitude increase in the rich cluster environment compared with a more modest increase in the field population. This suggests that the process or processes involved in producing k + a galaxies are either substantially more effective in the cluster environment or that this environment prolongs the visibility of this phase. A more detailed analysis and modeling of these data is presented in Poggianti et al. (1999ApJ...518..576P).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/398/133
- Title:
- Spectroscopic indexes of BCGs
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/398/133
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This paper is part of a series devoted to the study of the stellar populations in brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), aimed at setting constraints on the formation and evolution of these objects. We have obtained high signal-to-noise ratio, long-slit spectra of 49 BCGs in the nearby Universe. Here, we derive single stellar population (SSP)-equivalent ages, metallicities and alpha-abundance ratios in the centres of the galaxies using the Lick system of absorption line indices.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/101/475
- Title:
- Spectroscopic observations of A3571
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/101/475
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectroscopic data and density counts are presented for this southern cluster, which seems to belong to the outskirts of the Shapley 8 concentration (= A 3558 = SC 1326-311). Using telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory and La Silla Observatory a total of 72 galaxy velocities were measured giving a mean redshift of 0.0384 and a global velocity dispersion of 1022 (+99, -77) km/s. A preliminary analysis of velocity and density data suggests the presence of various subgroups. The central core of the cluster is dominated by a very elongated, distorded and diffuse cD galaxy. This cluster may be an example where the cD was formed early in the collapse process of a cluster which has not reached overall virialization yet. The derived X-ray luminosity of ~2x10^44^erg/s in the 2-6keV band places this cluster in the group of strong X-ray cluster sources.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/841/7
- Title:
- Spectroscopic obs & members of ZwCl 2341+0000
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/841/7
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- ZwCl 2341.1+0000, a merging galaxy cluster with disturbed X-ray morphology and widely separated (~3Mpc) double radio relics, was thought to be an extremely massive (10-30x10^14^M_{sun}_) and complex system, with little known about its merger history. We present JVLA 2-4GHz observations of the cluster, along with new spectroscopy from our Keck/DEIMOS survey, and apply Gaussian Mixture Modeling to the three-dimensional distribution of 227 confirmed cluster galaxies. After adopting the Bayesian Information Criterion to avoid overfitting, which we discover can bias high the total dynamical mass estimates, we find that a three-substructure model with a total dynamical mass estimate of 9.39+/-0.81x10^14^M_{sun}_ is favored. We also present deep Subaru imaging and perform the first weak lensing analysis on this system, obtaining a weak lensing mass estimate of 5.57+/-2.47x10^14^M_{sun}_. This is a more robust estimate because it does not depend on the dynamical state of the system, which is disturbed due to the merger. Our results indicate that ZwCl2341.1+0000 is a multiple merger system comprised of at least three substructures, with the main merger that produced the radio relics occurring near the plane of the sky, and a younger merger in the north occurring closer to the line of sight. Dynamical modeling of the main merger reproduces observed quantities (relic positions and polarizations, subcluster separation and radial velocity difference), if the merger axis angle of ~10_-6_^+34^ degrees and the collision speed at pericenter is ~1900_-200_^+300^km/s.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/863/102
- Title:
- Spectroscopic redshift catalog in A2142 field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/863/102
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To investigate the dynamics of the galaxy cluster A2142, we compile an extended catalog of 2239 spectroscopic redshifts of sources, including 237 newly measured redshifts, within 30 arcmin from the cluster center. With the {sigma}-plateau algorithm from the caustic method, we identify 868 members and a number of substructures in the galaxy distribution both in the outskirts, out to ~3.5Mpc from the cluster center, and in the central region. In the outskirts, one substructure overlaps a falling clump of gas previously identified in the X-ray band. These substructures suggest the presence of multiple minor mergers, which are responsible for the complex dynamics of A2142, and the absence of recent or ongoing major mergers. We show that the distribution of the galaxies in the cluster core and in several substructures is consistent with the mass distribution inferred from the weak-lensing signal. Moreover, we use spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy to measure the redshift of different regions of the intracluster medium within ~3 arcmin from the cluster center. We find a ring of gas near the two X-ray cold fronts identified in previous analyses and measure a velocity of this ring of 810+/-330km/s larger than the cluster mean velocity. Our analysis suggests the presence of another ring surrounding the core, whose velocity is 660+/-300km/s larger than the cluster velocity. These X-ray features are not associated with any optical substructures, and support the core-sloshing scenario suggested in previous work.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/741/122
- Title:
- Spectroscopic redshifts in A2142 and RXJ1720.1+2638
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/741/122
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present evidence for the existence of substructure in the "relaxed appearing" cold front clusters Abell 2142 and RXJ1720.1+2638. The detection of these substructures was made possible by comprehensive multi-object optical spectroscopy obtained with the Hectospec and DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph instruments on the 6.5m MMT and 10m Keck II telescope, respectively. These observations produced 956 and 400 spectroscopically confirmed cluster members within a projected radius of 3Mpc from the centers of A2142 and RXJ1720.1+2638, respectively. The substructure manifests itself as local peaks in the spatial distribution of member galaxies and also as regions of localized velocity substructure. For both Abell 2142 and RXJ1720.1+2638, we identify group-scale substructures which, when considering the morphology of the cold fronts and the time since pericentric passage of a perturber estimated from the cold front radii, could plausibly have perturbed the cluster cores and generated the cold fronts observed in Chandra images. The results presented here are consistent with cold fronts being the result of merger activity and with cold fronts in relaxed appearing clusters being due to minor merger activity.
