- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/458/3083
- Title:
- Abell 3888 galaxies redshifts
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/458/3083
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we present new AAOmega spectroscopy of 254 galaxies within a 30 arcmin radius around Abell 3888. We combine these data with the existing redshifts measured in a one degree radius around the cluster and performed a substructure analysis. We confirm 71 member galaxies within the core of A3888 and determine a new average redshift and velocity dispersion for the cluster of 0.1535+/-0.0009 and 1181+/-197km/s, respectively. The cluster is elongated along an East-West axis and we find the core is bimodal along this axis with two subgroups of 26 and 41 members detected. Our results suggest that A3888 is a merging system putting to rest the previous conjecture about the morphological status of the cluster derived from X-ray observations. In addition to the results on A3888 we also present six newly detected galaxy overdensities in the field, three of which we classify as new galaxy clusters.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/607/A131
- Title:
- Abell 520 galaxies redshifts
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/607/A131
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mergers of galaxy clusters are the most energetic events in the universe after the Big Bang. An ever increasing fraction of local clusters exhibit signs of recent or past mergers. Our goal is to probe how these mergers affect the evolution and content of their member galaxies. We specifically aim to answer the following questions: Is the quenching of star formation in merging clusters enhanced when compared with relaxed clusters? Is the quenching accompanied by a (short lived) burst of star formation? We obtained optical spectroscopy of $>400$ galaxies in the field of the merging cluster Abell 520. We combine these observations with archival data to get a comprehensive picture of the state of star formation in the members of this merging cluster. Finally, we compare these observations with a control sample of 10 non-merging clusters at the same redshift from The Arizona Cluster Redshift Survey (ACReS). We split the member galaxies in passive, star forming or recently quenched depending on their spectra. The core of the merger shows a decreased fraction of star-forming galaxies compared to clusters in the non-merging sample. This region, dominated by passive galaxies, is extended along the axis of the merger. We find evidence of rapid quenching of the galaxies during the core passage with no signs of a star burst on the time scales of the merger. Additionally, we report the tentative discovery of an infalling group along the main filament feeding the merger, currently at ~2.5Mpc from the merger centre. This group contains a high fraction of star forming galaxies as well as ~2/3 of all the recently quenched galaxies in our survey.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/468/703
- Title:
- Abell 168 ultra-diffuse galaxies distribution
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/468/703
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Taking advantage of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe82 data, we have explored the spatial distribution of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) within an area of 8x8Mpc^2^ centred around the galaxy cluster Abell 168 (z=0.045). This intermediate massive cluster ({sigma}=550km/s) is surrounded by a complex large-scale structure. Our work confirms the presence of UDGs in the cluster and in the large-scale structure that surrounds it, and it is the first detection of UDGs outside clusters. Approximately 50 per cent of the UDGs analysed in the selected area inhabit the cluster region (~11+/-5 per cent in the core and ~39+/-9 per cent in the outskirts), whereas the remaining UDGs are found outside the main cluster structure (~50+/-11 per cent). The colours and the spatial distribution of the UDGs within this large-scale structure are more similar to dwarf galaxies than to L* galaxies, suggesting that most UDGs could be bona fide dwarf galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/633/A139
- Title:
- Abundances of RXC J2248.7-4431 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/633/A139
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Aims. Gas-phase metallicities offer insight into the chemical evolution of galaxies as they reflect the recycling of gas through star formation and galactic inflows and outflows. Environmental effects such as star-formation quenching mechanisms play an important role in shaping the evolution of galaxies. Clusters of galaxies at z<0.5 are expected to be the sites where environmental effects can be clearly observed with present-day telescopes. Methods. We explored the Frontier Fields cluster RX J2248-443 at z=0.348 with VIMOS/VLT spectroscopy from CLASH-VLT, which covers a central region corresponding to almost 2 virial radii. The fluxes of [OII]{lambda}3727, H{beta}, [OIII]{lambda}5007, H{alpha} and [NII]{lambda}6584 emission lines were measured allowing the derivation of (O/H) gas metallicities, star formation rates based on extinction-corrected H{alpha} fluxes, and contamination from active galactic nuclei. We compared our sample of cluster galaxies to a population of field galaxies at similar redshifts. Results. We use the location of galaxies in projected phase-space to distinguish between cluster and field galaxies. Both populations follow the star-forming sequence in the diagnostic diagrams, which allow the ionising sources in a galaxy to be disentangled, with only a low number of galaxies classified as Seyfert II. Both field and cluster galaxies follow the "main sequence" of star-forming galaxies, with no substantial difference observed between the two populations. In the mass-metallicity (MZ) plane, both high-mass field and cluster galaxies show comparable (O/H)s to the local SDSS MZ relation, with an offset of low-mass galaxies (log(M/M_{sun}_)<9.2) towards higher metallicities. While both the metallicities of "accreted" (R<R_500_) and "infalling" (R>R_500_) cluster members are comparable at all masses, the cluster galaxies from the "mass complete" bin (which is the intermediate mass bin in this study: 9.2<log(M/M_{sun}_)<10.2), show more enhanced metallicities than their field counterparts by a factor of 0.065 dex with a ~1.8{sigma} significance. The intermediate-mass field galaxies are in accordance with the expected (O/H)s from the fundamental metallicity relation, while the cluster members deviate strongly from the model predictions, namely by a factor of ~0.12dex. The results of this work are in accordance with studies of other clusters at z<0.5 and favour the scenario in which the hot halo gas of low- and intermediate-mass cluster galaxies is removed due to ram pressure stripping, leading to an increase in their gas-phase metallicity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/245/10
- Title:
- A catalog of galaxies in direction of Perseus
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/245/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 5437 morphologically classified sources in the direction of the Perseus galaxy cluster core, among them 496 early-type low-mass galaxy candidates. The catalog is primarily based on V-band imaging data acquired with the William Herschel Telescope, which we used to conduct automated source detection and derive photometry. We additionally reduced archival Subaru multiband imaging data in order to measure aperture colors and perform a morphological classification, benefiting from 0.5" seeing conditions in the r-band data. Based on morphological and color properties, we extracted a sample of early-type low-mass galaxy candidates with absolute V-band magnitudes in the range of -10 to -20mag. In the color-magnitude diagram, the galaxies are located where the red sequence for early-type cluster galaxies is expected, and they lie on the literature relation between absolute magnitude and Sersic index. We classified the early-type dwarf candidates into nucleated and nonnucleated galaxies. For the faint candidates, we found a trend of increasing nucleation fraction toward brighter luminosity or higher surface brightness, similar to what is observed in other nearby galaxy clusters. We morphologically classified the remaining sources as likely background elliptical galaxies, late-type galaxies, edge-on disk galaxies, and likely merging systems and discussed the expected contamination fraction through non-early-type cluster galaxies in the magnitude-size surface brightness parameter space. Our catalog reaches its 50% completeness limit at an absolute V-band luminosity of -12mag and a V-band surface brightness of 26mag/arcsec^2^. This makes it the largest and deepest catalog with coherent coverage compared to previous imaging studies of the Perseus cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/791/128
- Title:
- Basic galaxy data for spiral-rich group members
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/791/128
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope, the COS Science Team has conducted a high signal-to-noise survey of 14 bright QSOs. In a previous paper (Savage et al., 2014ApJS..212....8S), these far-UV spectra were used to discover 14 "warm" (T >= 10^5^ K) absorbers using a combination of broad Ly{alpha} and broad O VI absorptions. A reanalysis of a few of this new class of absorbers using slightly relaxed fitting criteria finds as many as 20 warm absorbers could be present in this sample. A shallow, wide spectroscopic galaxy redshift survey has been conducted around these sight lines to investigate the warm absorber environment, which is found to be spiral-rich groups or cluster outskirts with radial velocity dispersions {sigma}=250-750 km/s. While 2{sigma} evidence is presented favoring the hypothesis that these absorptions are associated with the galaxy groups and not with the individual, nearest galaxies, this evidence has considerable systematic uncertainties and is based on a small sample size so it is not entirely conclusive. If the associations are with galaxy groups, the observed frequency of warm absorbers (idN/dz = 3.5-5 per unit redshift) requires them to be very extended as an ensemble on the sky (~1 Mpc in radius at high covering factor). Most likely these warm absorbers are interface gas clouds whose presence implies the existence of a hotter (T ~ 10^6.5^ K), diffuse, and probably very massive (>10^11^ M_{sun}_) intra-group medium which has yet to be detected directly.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/618/A81
- Title:
- Bayesian group finder applied to the 2MRS data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/618/A81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We propose a probabilistic galaxy group detection algorithm based on marked point processes with interactions. The pattern of galaxy groups in a catalogue is seen as a random set of interacting objects. The positions and the interactions of these objects are governed by a probability density. The parameters of the probability density are chosen using a priori knowledge. The estimator of the unknown cluster pattern is given by the configuration of objects maximising the proposed probability density. Adopting the Bayesian framework, the proposed probability density is maximised using a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm. At fixed temperature, the SA algorithm is a Monte Carlo sampler of the probability density. Hence, the method provides "for free" additional information such as the probabilities that a point or two points in the observation domain belong to the cluster pattern, respectively. These supplementary tools allow the construction of tests and techniques to validate and to refine the detection result. To test the feasibility of the proposed methodology, we applied it to the well-studied 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) data set. Compared to previously published Friends-of-Friends (FoF) group finders, the proposed Bayesian group finder gives overall similar results. However, for specific applications, like the reconstruction of the local Universe, the details of the grouping algorithms are important.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/126/209
- Title:
- Bright SHARC survey cluster catalog
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/126/209
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Bright SHARC (Serendipitous High-Redshift Archival ROSAT Cluster) Survey, which is an objective search for serendipitously detected extended X-ray sources in 460 deep ROSAT PSPC pointings. The Bright SHARC Survey covers an area of 178.6 deg^2^ and has yielded 374 extended sources. We discuss the X-ray data reduction, the candidate selection and present results from our on-going optical follow-up campaign. The optical follow-up concentrates on the brightest 94 of the 374 extended sources and is now 97% complete. We have identified 37 clusters of galaxies, for which we present redshifts and luminosities. The clusters span a redshift range of 0.0696<z<0.83 and a luminosity range of 0.065<L_X_< 8.3x10^44^ergs/s [0.5-2.0keV] (assuming H_0_=50km/s/Mpc and q_0_=0.5). Twelve of the clusters have redshifts greater than z=0.3, eight of which are at luminosities brighter than L_X_=3x10^44^ergs/s. Seventeen of the 37 optically confirmed Bright SHARC clusters have not been listed in any previously published catalog. We also report the discovery of three candidate "fossil groups" of the kind proposed by Ponman et al. (1994Natur.369..462P)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/170
- Title:
- Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations
- Short Name:
- VII/170
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This "Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations" is a complete and detailed catalogue of all the most interesting galaxies and most striking apparent associations of galaxies in the Southern sky. The printed catalogue is made of two volumes: Volume I which lists the Peculiar Galaxies, and Volume II which contains photographs of galaxies which are representative of the various Categories used in the Classification scheme presented in Volume I.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/497/1791
- Title:
- CCD Washington photometry of Antlia cluster
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/497/1791
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an extension of our previous research on the early-type galaxy population of the Antlia cluster (d~35Mpc), achieving a total coverage of ~2.6deg^2^ and performing surface photometry for ~300 galaxies, 130 of which are new uncatalogued ones. Such new galaxies mainly fall in the low surface brightness (LSB) regime, but there are also some lenticulars (S0) which support the existence of unique functions that connect bright and dwarf galaxies in the scaling relations. We analyse the projected spatial distribution of galaxies up to a distance of ~800kpc from NGC 3268, the adopted centre, as well as the radial velocity distribution and the correlation between galaxy colour and effective radius with the projected spatial distribution. We also obtain the luminosity function of the early-type galaxies and the distribution of stellar masses using the T1-band magnitudes and adopted mass-luminosity ratios. Additionally, we correlate the central galaxy distribution with an X-ray emission map from the literature. Based on the analysis of the radial velocities and galaxy colour distributions, we find that galaxies redder than the colour-magnitude relation (CMR) have a velocity distribution strongly concentrated towards the values of the dominant galaxies and are homogeneously distributed throughout the cluster. Those bluer than the CMR, in turn, have a much more extended radial velocity distribution and are concentrated towards the centre of the cluster. We also identify 12 candidates to ultra diffuse galaxies (UDG), that seem to be split into two families, and speculate about their origins in the context of the cluster structure.
