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Larson, Richard B. "Galaxy Formation and Cluster Formation." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 126 (1988): 311–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s007418090004256x.
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A primary motivation for studying globular clusters is that, as the oldest known galactic fossils, they trace the earliest stages of galactic evolution; indeed, they may hold the key to understanding galaxy formation. Thus it is clearly of great importance to learn how to read the fossil record. To do this, we need to understand something about how the globular clusters themselves formed. Were they the first bound objects to form, or did they form in larger pre-existing systems of which they are just small surviving fragments? If the latter, what were the prehistoric cluster-forming systems like? And how did they manage to produce objects like globular clusters?
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Lee, Seong-Kook, Myungshin Im, Eunhee Ko, Changbom Park, Juhan Kim, Jaehyun Lee, and Minhee Hyun. "Star-formation Property of High Redshift Galaxies in Clusters: Perceptive View from Observation and Simulation." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 17, S373 (August 2021): 260–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921322004409.
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AbstractThe evolution of star formation properties of galaxies depends on the environment where galaxies reside, and generally star formation of galaxies in dense environment decreases more quickly. Interestingly, the star formation property of high-redshift galaxies clusters vary largely even though they are at similar redshift. We have found that the large-scale environment surrounding each galaxy cluster can contribute to make this cluster-by-cluster variation. This correlation is found in the results from observational data as well as in the simulations of galaxy formation. We suggest the ‘Web-feeding model’ to explain this trend. Star-forming galaxies falling into the galaxy cluster from surrounding large-scale structure make the quiescent galaxy fraction of the cluster lower than relatively isolated clusters.
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Li, Yuexing, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, and Ralf S. Klessen. "Globular Cluster Formation in Galaxy Mergers." Highlights of Astronomy 13 (2005): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1539299600015719.
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AbstractWe present preliminary results of a high resolution simulation of globular cluster formation in a galaxy merger using GADGET (Springel et al. 2001). A barotropic equation of state (Li et al 2003) is implemented to include effects of cooling and heating. After one orbital period, a dozen proto-globular clusters are identified in the tidal tails.
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Benavides, José A., Laura V. Sales, and Mario G. Abadi. "Accretion of galaxy groups into galaxy clusters." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 498, no. 3 (September 2, 2020): 3852–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2636.
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ABSTRACT We study the role of group infall in the assembly and dynamics of galaxy clusters in ΛCDM. We select 10 clusters with virial mass M200 ∼ 1014 $\rm M_\odot$ from the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Illustris and follow their galaxies with stellar mass M⋆ ≥ 1.5 × 108 $\rm M_\odot$. A median of ${\sim}38{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of surviving galaxies at z = 0 is accreted as part of groups and did not infall directly from the field, albeit with significant cluster-to-cluster scatter. The evolution of these galaxy associations is quick, with observational signatures of their common origin eroding rapidly in 1–3 Gyr after infall. Substructure plays a dominant role in fostering the conditions for galaxy mergers to happen, even within the cluster environment. Integrated over time, we identify (per cluster) an average of 17 ± 9 mergers that occur in infalling galaxy associations, of which 7 ± 3 occur well within the virial radius of their cluster hosts. The number of mergers shows large dispersion from cluster to cluster, with our most massive system having 42 mergers above our mass cut-off. These mergers, which are typically gas rich for dwarfs and a combination of gas rich and gas poor for M⋆ ∼ 1011 $\rm M_\odot$, may contribute significantly within ΛCDM to the formation of specific morphologies, such as lenticulars (S0) and blue compact dwarfs in groups and clusters.
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van den Bergh, S. "Star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 148 (1991): 161–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900200259.
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Star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) differ from those in the Galaxy in a number of respects: (1) the Clouds contain a class of populous open clusters that has no Galactic counterpart; (2) Cloud clusters have systematically larger radii rh than those in the Galaxy; (3) clusters of all ages in the Clouds are, on average, more flattened than those in the Galaxy. In the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) there appear to have been two distinct epochs of cluster formation. LMC globulars have ages of 12-15 Gyr, whereas most populous open clusters have ages <5 Gyr. No such dichotomy is observed for clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) The fact that the SMC exhibits no enhanced cluster formation at times of bursts of cluster formation in the LMC, militates against encounters between the Clouds as a cause for enhanced rates of star and cluster formation.
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Robertson, Andrew. "The galaxy–galaxy strong lensing cross-sections of simulated ΛCDM galaxy clusters." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 504, no. 1 (March 22, 2021): L7—L11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab028.
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ABSTRACT We investigate a recent claim that observed galaxy clusters produce an order of magnitude more galaxy–galaxy strong lensing (GGSL) than simulated clusters in a Λ cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology. We take galaxy clusters from the c-eagle hydrodynamical simulations and calculate the expected amount of GGSL for sources placed behind the clusters at different redshifts. The probability of a source lensed by one of the most massive c-eagle clusters being multiply imaged by an individual cluster member is in good agreement with that inferred for observed clusters. We show that numerically converged results for the GGSL probability require higher resolution simulations than had been used previously. On top of this, different galaxy formation models predict cluster substructures with different central densities, such that the GGSL probabilities in ΛCDM cannot yet be robustly predicted. Overall, we find that GGSL within clusters is not currently in tension with the ΛCDM cosmological model.
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Hwang, Narae, and Myung Gyoon Lee. "Tracing star cluster formation in the interacting galaxy M51." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 5, S266 (August 2009): 423–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921309991591.
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AbstractWe present a study of star clusters in the interacting galaxy M51 using a star cluster catalog that includes about 3600 star clusters with mF555W < 23 mag, compiled by Hwang & Lee (2008). Combined with mF336W-band imaging data taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)'s WFPC2 camera, we have derived the ages and masses of star clusters in M51 using theoretical population synthesis models. The cluster age distribution displays multiple peaks that correspond to the epochs of dynamical encounters predicted by theoretical model studies and the cluster-formation rate appears to increase around the same epochs.
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Danieli, Shany, Pieter van Dokkum, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Scott Carlsten, Zili Shen, et al. "NGC 5846-UDG1: A Galaxy Formed Mostly by Star Formation in Massive, Extremely Dense Clumps of Gas." Astrophysical Journal Letters 927, no. 2 (March 1, 2022): L28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac590a.
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Abstract It has been shown that ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have higher specific frequencies of globular clusters, on average, than other dwarf galaxies with similar luminosities. The UDG NGC 5846-UDG1 is among the most extreme examples of globular cluster–rich galaxies found so far. Here we present new Hubble Space Telescope observations and analysis of this galaxy and its globular cluster system. We find that NGC 5846-UDG1 hosts 54 ± 9 globular clusters, three to four times more than any previously known galaxy with a similar luminosity and higher than reported in previous studies. With a galaxy luminosity of L V,gal ≈ 6 × 107 L ⊙ (M ⋆ ≈ 1.2 × 108 M ⊙) and a total globular cluster luminosity of L V,GCs ≈ 7.6 × 106 L ⊙, we find that the clusters currently comprise ∼13% of the total light. Taking into account the effects of mass loss from clusters during their formation and throughout their lifetime, we infer that most of the stars in the galaxy likely formed in globular clusters, and very little to no “normal” low-density star formation occurred. This result implies that the most extreme conditions during early galaxy formation promoted star formation in massive and dense clumps, in contrast to the dispersed star formation observed in galaxies today.
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Riccio, G., M. Paolillo, R. D’Abrusco, M. Cantiello, X. Jin, Z. Li, A. Venhola, et al. "Intra-cluster GC-LMXB in the Fornax galaxy cluster." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 14, S351 (May 2019): 151–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921319007890.
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AbstractThe formation of Low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) is favored within dense stellar systems such as Globular Clusters (GCs). The connection between LMXB and Globular Clusters has been extensively studied in the literature, but these studies have always been restricted to the innermost regions of galaxies. We present a study of LMXB in GCs within the central 1.5 deg2 of the Fornax cluster with the aim of confirming the existence of a population of LMXB in intra-cluster GCs and understand if their properties are related to the host GCs, to the environment or/and to different formation channels.
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Anders, Peter, Uta Fritze –. v. Alvensleben, and Richard de Grijs. "Young Star Clusters: Progenitors of Globular Clusters!?" Highlights of Astronomy 13 (2005): 366–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1539299600015987.
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AbstractStar cluster formation is a major mode of star formation in the extreme conditions of interacting galaxies and violent starbursts. Young clusters are observed to form in a variety of such galaxies, a substantial number resembling the progenitors of globular clusters in mass and size, but with significantly enhanced metallicity. From studies of the metal-poor and metal-rich star cluster populations of galaxies, we can therefore learn about the violent star formation history of these galaxies, and eventually about galaxy formation and evolution. We present a new set of evolutionary synthesis models of our GALEV code, with special emphasis on the gaseous emission of presently forming star clusters, and a new tool to compare extensive model grids with multi-color broad-band observations to determine individual cluster masses, metallicities, ages and extinction values independently. First results for young star clusters in the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 1569 are presented. The mass distributions determined for the young clusters give valuable input to dynamical star cluster system evolution models, regarding survival and destruction of clusters. We plan to investigate an age sequence of galaxy mergers to see dynamical destruction effects in process.
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Gnedin, Oleg Y. "Modeling Formation of Globular Clusters: Beacons of Galactic Star Formation." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 6, S270 (May 2010): 381–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921311000676.
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AbstractModern hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation are able to predict accurately the rates and locations of the assembly of giant molecular clouds in early galaxies. These clouds could host star clusters with the masses and sizes of real globular clusters. I describe current state-of-the-art simulations aimed at understanding the origin of the cluster mass function and metallicity distribution. Metallicity bimodality of globular cluster systems appears to be a natural outcome of hierarchical formation and gradually declining fraction of cold gas in galaxies. Globular cluster formation was most prominent at redshifts z > 3, when massive star clusters may have contributed as much as 20% of all galactic star formation.
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Conselice, Christopher J. "Are Cluster Dwarfs Recycled Galaxies?" Symposium - International Astronomical Union 217 (2004): 556–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900198377.
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Although cluster dwarf galaxies are often neglected due to their faintness, recent observations demonstrate they may be critical for understanding the physical processes behind galaxy formation. Dwarfs are the most common galaxy type and are particularly abundant in clusters. Recent observational results suggest that dwarfs in dense environments do not all form early in the universe, as expected in hierarchical structure formation models. Many of these systems appear to be younger and more metal rich than dwarfs in lower density areas, suggesting they are possibly created by a tidal process. Several general galaxy cluster observations, including steep luminosity functions and the origin of intracluster light, are natural outcomes of these processes.
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Einasto, Maret, Boris Deshev, Heidi Lietzen, Rain Kipper, Elmo Tempel, Changbom Park, Mirt Gramann, Pekka Heinämäki, Enn Saar, and Jaan Einasto. "Infalling groups and galaxy transformations in the cluster A2142." Astronomy & Astrophysics 610 (February 2018): A82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731600.
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Context. Superclusters of galaxies provide dynamical environments for the study of the formation and evolution of structures in the cosmic web from galaxies, to the richest galaxy clusters, and superclusters themselves. Aims. We study galaxy populations and search for possible merging substructures in the rich galaxy cluster A2142 in the collapsing core of the supercluster SCl A2142, which may give rise to radio and X-ray structures in the cluster, and affect galaxy properties of this cluster. Methods. We used normal mixture modelling to select substructure of the cluster A2142. We compared alignments of the cluster, its brightest galaxies (hereafter BCGs), subclusters, and supercluster axes. The projected phase space (PPS) diagram and clustercentric distributions are used to analyse the dynamics of the cluster and study the distribution of various galaxy populations in the cluster and subclusters. Results. We find several infalling galaxy groups and subclusters. The cluster, supercluster, BCGs, and one infalling subcluster are all aligned. Their orientation is correlated with the alignment of the radio and X-ray haloes of the cluster. Galaxy populations in the main cluster and in the outskirts subclusters are different. Galaxies in the centre of the main cluster at the clustercentric distances 0.5 h−1 Mpc (Dc∕Rvir < 0.5, Rvir = 0.9 h−1 Mpc) have older stellar populations (with the median age of 10−11 Gyr) than galaxies at larger clustercentric distances. Star-forming and recently quenched galaxies are located mostly at the clustercentric distances Dc ≈ 1.8 h−1 Mpc, where subclusters fall into the cluster and the properties of galaxies change rapidly. In this region the median age of stellar populations of galaxies is about 2 Gyr. Galaxies in A2142 on average have higher stellar masses, lower star formation rates, and redder colours than galaxies in rich groups. The total mass in infalling groups and subclusters is M ≈ 6 × 1014 h−1 M⊙, that is approximately half of the mass of the cluster. This mass is sufficient for the mass growth of the cluster from redshift z = 0.5 (half-mass epoch) to the present. Conclusions. Our analysis suggests that the cluster A2142 has formed as a result of past and present mergers and infallen groups, predominantly along the supercluster axis. Mergers cause complex radio and X-ray structure of the cluster and affect the properties of galaxies in the cluster, especially at the boundaries of the cluster in the infall region. Explaining the differences between galaxy populations, mass, and richness of A2142, and other groups and clusters may lead to better insight about the formation and evolution of rich galaxy clusters.
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Hashimoto, Tetsuya, Tomotsugu Goto, Rieko Momose, Chien-Chang Ho, Ryu Makiya, Chia-Ying Chiang, and Seong Jin Kim. "A young galaxy cluster in the old Universe." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 489, no. 2 (August 12, 2019): 2014–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2182.
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ABSTRACT Galaxies evolve from a blue star-forming phase into a red quiescent one by quenching their star formation activity. In high-density environments, this galaxy evolution proceeds earlier and more efficiently. Therefore, local galaxy clusters are dominated by well-evolved red elliptical galaxies. The fraction of blue galaxies in clusters monotonically declines with decreasing redshift, i.e. the Butcher–Oemler effect. In the local Universe, observed blue fractions of massive clusters are as small as ≲0.2. Here we report a discovery of a ‘blue cluster’ that is a local galaxy cluster with an unprecedentedly high fraction of blue star-forming galaxies yet hosted by a massive dark matter halo. The blue fraction is 0.57, which is 4.0σ higher than those of the other comparison clusters under the same selection and identification criteria. The velocity dispersion of the member galaxies is 510 km s−1, which corresponds to a dark matter halo mass of 2.0$^{+1.9}_{-1.0}\times 10^{14}$ M⊙. The blue fraction of the cluster is more than 4.7σ beyond the standard theoretical predictions including semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. The probability to find such a high blue fraction in an individual cluster is only 0.003 per cent, which challenges the current standard frameworks of the galaxy formation and evolution in the ΛCDM universe. The spatial distribution of galaxies around the blue cluster suggests that filamentary cold gas streams can exist in massive haloes even in the local Universe. However these cold streams have already disappeared in the theoretically simulated local universes.
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Zepf, Stephen E. "Formation Scenarios for Globular Clusters and Their Host Galaxies." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 207 (2002): 653–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900224492.
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This review focuses on how galaxies and their globular cluster systems form. I first discuss the now fairly convincing evidence that some globular clusters form in galaxy starbursts/mergers. One way these observations are valuable is they place important constraints on the physics of the formation of globular clusters. Moreover, it is natural to associate the typically metal-rich clusters forming in mergers with the substantial metal-rich population of globulars around ellipticals, thereby implying an important role for galaxy mergers in the evolution of elliptical galaxies. I also highlight some new observational efforts aimed at constraining how and when elliptical galaxies and their globular cluster systems formed. These include systematic studies of the number of globular clusters around galaxies as a function of morphological type, studies of the kinematics of globular cluster populations in elliptical galaxies, and a variety of observational programs aimed at constraining the relative ages of globular clusters within galaxies as a function of cluster metallicity. The understanding of the formation of globular cluster systems and their host galaxies has grown dramatically in recent years, and the future looks equally promising.
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Elbaz, D. "Infrared Observations of Galaxy Clusters." Highlights of Astronomy 11, no. 2 (1998): 1128–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1539299600019754.
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The evolution of galaxy clusters from their formation due to the merging of sub structures, the bulk of star formation and subsequent chemical enrichment of the intra-cluster medium, is expected to be quite recent (z<l-2) in the hierarchical clustering scenario (White & Frenk 1991).
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Zepf, Stephen E. "The Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters and Galaxies." Highlights of Astronomy 13 (2005): 347–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1539299600015938.
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AbstractThis paper addresses the questions of what we have learned about how and when dense star clusters form, and what studies of star clusters have revealed about galaxy formation and evolution. One important observation is that globular clusters are observed to form in galaxy mergers and starbursts in the local universe, which both provides constraints on models of globular cluster formation, and suggests that similar physical conditions existed when most early-type galaxies and their globular clusters formed in the past. A second important observation is that globular cluster systems typically have bimodal color distributions. This was predicted by merger models, and indicates an episodic formation history for elliptical galaxies. A third and very recent result is the discovery of large populations of intermediate age globular clusters in several elliptical galaxies through the use of optical to near-infrared colors. These provide an important link between young cluster systems observed in starbursts and mergers and old cluster systems. This continuum of ages of the metal-rich globular cluster systems also indicates that there is no special age or epoch for the formation of the metal-rich globular clusters, which comprise about half of the cluster population. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of recent results on the globular cluster – low-mass X-ray binary connection.
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Khosroshahi, Habib G., and T. J. Ponman. "Fossil Galaxy Groups; Scaling Relations, Galaxy Properties and Formation of BCGs." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2, S235 (August 2006): 214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s174392130600620x.
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AbstractWe study fossil galaxy groups, their hot gas and the galaxy properties. Fossils are more X-ray luminous than non-fossil groups, however, they fall comfortably on the conventional L-T relation of galaxy groups and clusters indicating that their X-ray luminosity and temperature are both boosted, arguably, as a result of their early formation. The central dominant galaxy in fossils have optical luminosity comparable to the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), however, the isophotal shapes of the central galaxy in fossils are non-boxy in contrast to the isophotes of majority of the BCGs.
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Neumayer, Nadine. "Nuclear Star Clusters." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 12, S316 (August 2015): 84–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316007018.
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AbstractThe centers of galaxies host two distinct, compact components: massive black holes and nuclear star clusters. Nuclear star clusters are the densest stellar systems in the universe, with masses of ~ 107M⊙and sizes of ~ 5pc. They are almost ubiquitous at the centres of nearby galaxies with masses similar to, or lower than the Milky Way. Their occurrence both in spirals and dwarf elliptical galaxies appears to be a strong function of total galaxy light or mass. Nucleation fractions are up to 100% for total galaxy magnitudes of MB= −19mag or total galaxy luminosities of about LB= 1010L⊙and falling nucleation fractions for both smaller and higher galaxy masses. Although nuclear star clusters are so common, their formation mechanisms are still under debate. The two main formation scenarios proposed are the infall and subsequent merging of star clusters and the in-situ formation of stars at the center of a galaxy. Here, I review the state-of-the-art of nuclear star cluster observations concerning their structure, stellar populations and kinematics. These observations are used to constrain the proposed formation scenarios for nuclear star clusters. Constraints from observations show, that likely both cluster infall and in-situ star formation are at work. The relative importance of these two mechanisms is still subject of investigation.
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Fujita, Yutaka, Keiichi Umetsu, Elena Rasia, Massimo Meneghetti, Megan Donahue, Elinor Medezinski, Nobuhiro Okabe, Marc Postman, and Stefano Ettori. "The new fundamental plane dictating galaxy cluster evolution." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 15, S341 (November 2019): 271–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921319001376.
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AbstractIn this study, we show that the characteristic radius rs, mass Ms, and the X-ray temperature, TX, of galaxy clusters form a thin plane in the space of (log rs, log Ms, log TX). This tight correlation indicates that the cluster structure including the temperature is affected by the formation time of individual clusters. Numerical simulations show that clusters move along the fundamental plane as they evolve. The plane and the cluster evolution within the plane can be explained by a similarity solution of structure formation. The angle of the plane shows that clusters have not achieved “virial equilibrium”. The details of this study are written in Fujita et al. (2018a,b).
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Chun, Kyungwon, Jihye Shin, Rory Smith, Jongwan Ko, and Jaewon Yoo. "The Formation of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy and Intracluster Light in Cosmological N-body Simulations with the Galaxy Replacement Technique." Astrophysical Journal 943, no. 2 (February 1, 2023): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aca890.
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Abstract We investigate the formation channels of the intracluster light (ICL) and the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in clusters at z = 0. For this, we perform multi-resolution cosmological N-body simulations using the “galaxy replacement technique.” We study the formation channels of the ICL and BCG as a function of distance from the cluster center and the dynamical state of the clusters at z = 0. To do this, we trace back the stars of the ICL and BCG, and identify the stellar components in which they existed when they first fell into the clusters. We find that the progenitors of the ICL and BCG in the central region of the cluster fell earlier and with a higher total mass ratio of the progenitors to the cluster compared to the outer region. This causes a negative radial gradient in the infall time and total mass ratio of the progenitors. Although stellar mass of the progenitors does not show the same radial gradient in all clusters, massive galaxies (M gal > 1010 M ⊙ h−1) are the dominant formation channel of the ICL and BCG for all clusters, except for our most relaxed cluster. For clusters that are dynamically more unrelaxed, we find that the progenitors of the ICL and BCG fall into their clusters more recently, and with a higher mass and mass ratio. Furthermore, we find that the diffuse material of massive galaxies and group-mass halos that is formed by preprocessing contributes significantly to the ICL in the outer region of the unrelaxed clusters.
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Kroupa, Pavel. "Star-cluster formation and evolution." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2, S237 (August 2006): 230–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921307001524.
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AbstractStar clusters are observed to form in a highly compact state and with low star-formation efficiencies, and only 10 per cent of all clusters appear to survive to middle- and old-dynamical age. If the residual gas is expelled on a dynamical time the clusters disrupt. Massive clusters may then feed a hot kinematical stellar component into their host-galaxy's field population thereby thickening galactic disks, a process that theories of galaxy formation and evolution need to accommodate. If the gas-evacuation time-scale depends on cluster mass, then a power-law embedded-cluster mass function may transform within a few dozen Myr to a mass function with a turnover near 105M, thereby possibly explaining this universal empirical feature. Discordant empirical evidence on the mass function of star clusters leads to the insight that the physical processes shaping early cluster evolution remain an issue of cutting-edge research.
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Mastropietro, M., S. De Rijcke, and R. F. Peletier. "A tale of two tails: insights from simulations into the formation of the peculiar dwarf galaxy NGC 1427A." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504, no. 3 (April 19, 2021): 3387–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1091.
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ABSTRACT We present a scenario for the formation and the morphology of the arrow-shaped dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1427A in the Fornax Cluster. This galaxy shows intriguing stellar and gaseous tails pointing in different directions for which alternative but not conclusive formation scenarios have been proposed in the literature. We performed N-body/SPH simulations of dwarf galaxies falling into a model of the Fornax cluster, exhibiting a jellyfish-like appearance while undergoing ram-pressure stripping. We noted that some of our models show interesting tail morphologies similar to that of NGC 1427A. In this way, the peculiar NGC 1427A structure can be studied using models whose stellar and neutral gas photometry and kinematics are in good agreement with the observed ones, without the need of invoking an interaction with a nearby galaxy. Thanks to the tails, we can identify the requirements for a galaxy to expose such a structure and assess the possible position and velocity of the galaxy in the cluster. This puts constraints on the orbit of the galaxy, its position in the cluster and the time since its pericentre passage. From the statistics of identified snapshots following our modelling, we found that the most likely position of the galaxy is around 200 kpc in front of the cluster centre, travelling towards the cluster with a velocity angle with respect to the line-of-sight direction of around 50 deg. This analysis can be useful in future observations of similar galaxies in clusters to characterize their position and velocity in the cluster and their formation.
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Rude, Cody M., Madina R. Sultanova, Gihan L. Ipita Kaduwa Gamage, Wayne A. Barkhouse, and Sandanuwan P. Kalawila Vithanage. "Star formation in low-redshift cluster dwarf galaxies." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493, no. 4 (March 13, 2020): 5625–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa697.
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ABSTRACT Evolution of galaxies in dense environments can be affected by close encounters with neighbouring galaxies and interactions with the intracluster medium. Dwarf galaxies (dGs) are important as their low mass makes them more susceptible to these effects than giant systems. Combined luminosity functions (LFs) in the r and u band of 15 galaxy clusters were constructed using archival data from the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope. LFs were measured as a function of clustercentric radius from stacked cluster data. Marginal evidence was found for an increase in the faint-end slope of the u-band LF relative to the r-band with increasing clustercentric radius. The dwarf-to-giant ratio (DGR) was found to increase toward the cluster outskirts, with the u-band DGR increasing faster with clustercentric radius compared to the r-band. The dG blue fraction was found to be ∼2 times larger than the giant galaxy blue fraction over all clustercentric distance (∼5σ level). The central concentration (C) was used as a proxy to distinguish nucleated versus non-nucleated dGs. The ratio of high-C to low-C dGs was found to be ∼2 times greater in the inner cluster region compared to the outskirts (2.8σ level). The faint-end slope of the r-band LF for the cluster outskirts (0.6 ≤ r/r200 < 1.0) is steeper than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey field LF, while the u-band LF is marginally steeper at the 2.5σ level. Decrease in the faint-end slope of the r- and u-band cluster LFs towards the cluster centre is consistent with quenching of star formation via ram pressure stripping and galaxy–galaxy interactions.
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Arnaboldi, Magda, and Ortwin Gerhard. "JD2 - Diffuse Light in Galaxy Clusters." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 5, H15 (November 2009): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s174392131000846x.
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AbstractDiffuse intracluster light (ICL) has now been observed in nearby and in intermediate redshift clusters. Individual intracluster stars have been detected in the Virgo and Coma clusters and the first color-magnitude diagram and velocity measurements have been obtained. Recent studies show that the ICL contains of the order of 10% and perhaps up to 30% of the stellar mass in the cluster, but in the cores of some dense and rich clusters like Coma, the local ICL fraction can be high as 40%-50%. What can we learn from the ICL about the formation of galaxy clusters and the evolution of cluster galaxies? How and when did the ICL form? What is the connection to the central brightest cluster galaxy? Cosmological N-body and hydrodynamical simulations are beginning to make predictions for the kinematics and origin of the ICL. The ICL traces the evolution of baryonic substructures in dense environments and can thus be used to constrain some aspects of cosmological simulations that are most uncertain, such as the modeling of star formation and the mass distribution of the baryonic component in galaxies.
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Lee, Seong-Kook, Myungshin Im, Minhee Hyun, Bomi Park, Jae-Woo Kim, Dohyeong Kim, and Yongjung Kim. "More connected, more active: galaxy clusters and groups at z ∼ 1 and the connection between their quiescent galaxy fractions and large-scale environments." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 490, no. 1 (September 16, 2019): 135–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2564.
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ABSTRACT High-redshift galaxy clusters, unlike local counterparts, show diverse star formation activities. However, it is still unclear what keeps some of the high-redshift clusters active in star formation. To address this issue, we performed a multiobject spectroscopic observation of 226 high-redshift (0.8 < z < 1.3) galaxies in galaxy cluster candidates and the areas surrounding them. Our spectroscopic observation reveals six to eight clusters/groups at z ∼ 0.9 and z ∼ 1.3. The redshift measurements demonstrate the reliability of our photometric redshift measurements, which in turn gives credibility for using photometric redshift members for the analysis of large-scale structures (LSSs). Our investigation of the large-scale environment (∼10 Mpc) surrounding each galaxy cluster reveals LSSs – structures up to ∼10 Mpc scale – around many of, but not all, the confirmed overdensities and the cluster candidates. We investigate the correlation between quiescent galaxy fraction of galaxy overdensities and their surrounding LSSs, with a larger sample of ∼20 overdensities including photometrically selected overdensities at 0.6 < z < 0.9. Interestingly, galaxy overdensities embedded within these extended LSSs show a lower fraction of quiescent galaxies ($\sim 20{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$) than isolated ones at similar redshifts (with a quiescent galaxy fraction of $\sim 50 {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$). Furthermore, we find a possible indication that clusters/groups with a high quiescent galaxy fraction are more centrally concentrated. Based on these results, we suggest that LSSs are the main reservoirs of gas and star-forming galaxies to keep galaxy clusters fresh and extended in size at z ∼ 1.
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Gouin, C., N. Aghanim, V. Bonjean, and M. Douspis. "Probing the azimuthal environment of galaxies around clusters." Astronomy & Astrophysics 635 (March 2020): A195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937218.
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Galaxy clusters are connected at their peripheries to the large-scale structures by cosmic filaments that funnel accreting material. These filamentary structures are studied to investigate both environment-driven galaxy evolution and structure formation and evolution. In the present work, we probe in a statistical manner the azimuthal distribution of galaxies around clusters as a function of the cluster-centric distance, cluster richness, and star-forming or passive galaxy activity. We performed a harmonic decomposition in large photometric galaxy catalogue around 6400 SDSS clusters with masses M > 1014 solar masses in the redshift range of 0.1 < z < 0.3. The same analysis was performed on the mock galaxy catalogue from the light cone of a Magneticum hydrodynamical simulation. We used the multipole analysis to quantify asymmetries in the 2D galaxy distribution. In the inner cluster regions at R < 2R500, we confirm that the galaxy distribution traces an ellipsoidal shape, which is more pronounced for richest clusters. In the outskirts of the clusters (R = [2 − 8]R500), filamentary patterns are detected in harmonic space with a mean angular scale mmean = 4.2 ± 0.1. Massive clusters seem to have a larger number of connected filaments than lower-mass clusters. We also find that passive galaxies appear to trace the filamentary structures around clusters better. This is the case even if the contribution of star-forming galaxies tends to increase with the cluster-centric distance, suggesting a gradient of galaxy activity in filaments around clusters.
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Kissler-Patig, Markus. "Metal-rich and Metal-poor Globular Clusters in Ellipticals: Did we Learn Anything? or Constraints on Galaxy Formation and Evolution from Globular Cluster Sub-populations." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 207 (2002): 207–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900223760.
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A brief review on globular cluster sub-populations in galaxies, and their constraints on galaxy formation and evolution is given. The metal-poor and metal-rich sub-populations are put in a historical context, and their properties, as known to date, are summarized. We review why the study of these sub-populations is extremely useful for the study of galaxy formation and evolution, but highlight a few caveats with the current interpretations. We re-visit the current globular cluster system formation scenarios and show how they boil down to a single scenario for the metal-poor clusters (namely the formation in “universal”, small fragments at high z) and that a hierarchical formation seems favored for the metal-rich clusters.
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Demarco, Ricardo, Alessandro Rettura, Chris Lidman, Julie Nantais, Yara Jaffe, and Piero Rosati. "Early-type galaxy formation: understanding the role of the environment." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 10, S309 (July 2014): 291–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921314009910.
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AbstractOne of the most characteristic features of galaxy clusters is the so-called “red sequence” (RS) of early-type galaxies. Since these galaxies are, in general, devoid of gas and dust, their red colors are mainly a consequence of their passive nature. However, the physical mechanisms responsible for quenching their star formation, thus originating the RS, are poorly understood. Environmental effects should play a significant role in the formation of the RS by transforming the observed galaxy properties from late to early-type ones. In this respect, we have initiated a KMOS program aimed at studying the kinematical structure of cluster galaxies at 0.8 < z < 1.7 in an effort to disentangle the physical mechanisms responsible for cluster galaxy evolution and the formation of the RS.
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de Grijs, Richard. "Star Cluster Formation in Extreme Starburst Environments." Highlights of Astronomy 13 (2005): 185–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1539299600015562.
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AbstractThe currently available empirical evidence on the star formation processes in the extreme, high-pressure environments induced by galaxy encounters, mostly based on high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging observations, strongly suggests that star cluster formation is an important and perhaps even the dominant mode of star formation in the starburst events associated with galaxy interactions.
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Fahrion, K., M. Lyubenova, G. van de Ven, M. Hilker, R. Leaman, J. Falcón-Barroso, A. Bittner, et al. "Diversity of nuclear star cluster formation mechanisms revealed by their star formation histories." Astronomy & Astrophysics 650 (June 2021): A137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140644.
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Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems in the Universe and are found in the centres of all types of galaxies. They are thought to form via mergers of star clusters such as ancient globular clusters (GCs) that spiral to the centre as a result of dynamical friction or through in situ star formation directly at the galaxy centre. There is evidence that both paths occur, but the relative contribution of either channel and their correlation with galaxy properties are not yet constrained observationally. Our aim was to derive the dominant NSC formation channel for a sample of 25 nucleated galaxies, mostly in the Fornax galaxy cluster, with stellar masses between Mgal ∼ 108 and 1010.5 M⊙ and NSC masses between MNSC ∼ 105 and 108.5 M⊙. Using Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer data from the Fornax 3D survey and the ESO archive, we derived star formation histories, mean ages, and metallicities of NSCs, and compared them to the host galaxies. In many low-mass galaxies, the NSCs are significantly more metal poor than their hosts, with properties similar to GCs. In contrast, in the massive galaxies we find diverse star formation histories and cases of ongoing or recent in situ star formation. Massive NSCs (> 107 M⊙) occupy a different region in the mass–metallicity diagram than lower-mass NSCs and GCs, indicating a different enrichment history. We find a clear transition of the dominant NSC formation channel with both galaxy and NSC mass. We hypothesise that while GC accretion forms the NSCs of the dwarf galaxies, central star formation is responsible for the efficient mass build up in the most massive NSCs in our sample. At intermediate masses both channels can contribute. The transition between these formation channels seems to occur at galaxy masses Mgal ∼ 109 M⊙ and NSC masses MNSC ∼ 107 M⊙.
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Forbes, Duncan A. "Globular Clusters in Elliptical Galaxies: Constraints on Mergers." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 186 (1999): 181–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900112495.
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There exists a relationship between globular cluster mean metallicity and parent galaxy luminosity (e.g. Brodie & Huchra 1991; Forbes et al. 1996), which appears to be similar to that between stellar metallicity and galaxy luminosity. The globular cluster relation has a similar slope but is offset by about 0.5 dex to lower metallicity. The similarity of these relations suggests that both the globular cluster system and their parent galaxy have shared a common chemical enrichment history. If we can understand the formation and evolution of the globulars, we will also learn something about galaxy formation. With this aim in mind we have created the SAGES (Study of the Astrophysics of Globular clusters in Extragalactic Systems) project. Project members include Brodie, Elson, Forbes, Freeman, Grillmair, Huchra, Kissler–Patig and Schroder. We are using HST Imaging and Keck spectroscopy to study extragalactic globular cluster systems. Further details are given at http://www.ucolick.org/~mkissler/Sages/sages.html.
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Cohen, J. G. "The Globular Cluster System of M87." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 164 (1995): 441–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900109544.
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We have begun a program with the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph, operating with 30 multi-slits per exposure (Oke et al 1994, Cohen et al 1993) on the ten – meter W. M. Keck telescope located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to observe the globular cluster systems of the Virgo ellipticals. We expect to learn about the dark matter content of galaxy halos, the formation of these halos and their cluster systems, possibly the formation of the galaxy's themselves, the interaction of the cluster system with the galaxy's gravitational potential (i.e. rotation and spinup), and the homogeneity of chemical evolution in various places. The metallicity of the globular clusters versus the metallicity of the underlying galaxy can also by analyzed. In addition the dynamics (i.e. in practice, the rotation and velocity dispersion) of the halo of the parent galaxy versus the globular cluster system can be determined.
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Durret, Florence, Christophe Adami, and Tatiana F. Laganá. "Environmental Effects on Galaxy Luminosity Functions in Clusters." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 6, S277 (December 2010): 9–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921311022356.
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AbstractThe formation and evolution of galaxies is strongly influenced by environment, particularly in clusters, where galaxy luminosity functions vary in shape with the dynamical state of the cluster (relaxed or in various stages of merging), with the photometric band considered and with the position in the cluster. We present here results concerning the optical GLFs in several relaxed and merging clusters.
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Pavlov, A., and Y. Pavlova. "Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies and Mechanism of Formation of Spiral Galaxies." Modern Physics Letters A 18, no. 32 (October 20, 2003): 2265–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217732303012131.
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A mechanism of formation of a spiral galaxy is proposed. The galaxy is considered to be a cluster consisting of stars and gaseous clouds. Initially, the galaxy has elliptical geometry and slow rotational motion around one axis. The gravitational interaction between the stars has been modelled. The cluster contracted and transformed its geometry. The geometry of the initial cluster changes due to the change of the rotational velocities of the stars in accordance with the Kepler's second law and change of the relative positions of the stars. The computer simulation reveals that a spiral shaped galaxy is a result of the transformation of a cluster of non-spherical symmetry. An example of the gravitational contraction of an elliptically-shaped galaxy is presented in this paper.
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Schulz, Christine, and Michael Hilker. "From a star cluster ensemble to its formation history." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 12, S316 (August 2015): 263–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921315008923.
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AbstractThe present-day sample of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) and globular clusters (GCs) around NGC 1399 is interpreted to be composed of individual star cluster (SC) populations. It is assumed that such an SC population forms at a constant star-formation rate (SFR), and its mass distribution is described by the embedded cluster mass function (ECMF) up to the upper limit Mmax. The GCs and UCDs probably formed in interactions of the progenitor galaxies during the assembly of the central Fornax galaxy cluster which is why we use them as tracers of those events. After some corrections, the overall GC/UCD mass function is decomposed into separate SC populations, each described by an ECMF. Mmax of each ECMF is converted to an SFR according to the SFR-Mmax relation, revealing the SFRs reached during the assembly of galaxies in the central Fornax galaxy cluster.
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Yan, Peng-Fei, Feng Li, and Qi-Rong Yuan. "Star formation properties of galaxy cluster A1767." Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 15, no. 11 (November 2015): 1773–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/15/11/001.
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Radovich, Mario, Crescenzo Tortora, Fabio Bellagamba, Matteo Maturi, Lauro Moscardini, Emanuella Puddu, Mauro Roncarelli, et al. "AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-DR3: galaxy population properties and their redshift dependence." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 498, no. 3 (September 7, 2020): 4303–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2705.
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ABSTRACT A catalogue of galaxy clusters was obtained in an area of 414 $\deg ^2$ up to a redshift z ∼ 0.8 from the Data Release 3 of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-DR3), using the Adaptive Matched Identifier of Clustered Objects (amico) algorithm. The catalogue and the calibration of the richness–mass relation were presented in two companion papers. Here, we describe the selection of the cluster central galaxy and the classification of blue and red cluster members, and analyse the main cluster properties, such as the red/blue fraction, cluster mass, brightness, and stellar mass of the central galaxy, and their dependence on redshift and cluster richness. We use the Illustris-TNG simulation, which represents the state-of-the-art cosmological simulation of galaxy formation, as a benchmark for the interpretation of the results. A good agreement with simulations is found at low redshifts (z ≤ 0.4), while at higher redshifts the simulations indicate a lower fraction of blue galaxies than what found in the KiDS-amico catalogue: we argue that this may be due to an underestimate of star-forming galaxies in the simulations. The selection of clusters with a larger magnitude difference between the two brightest central galaxies, which may indicate a more relaxed cluster dynamical status, improves the agreement between the observed and simulated cluster mass and stellar mass of the central galaxy. We also find that at a given cluster mass the stellar mass of blue central galaxies is lower than that of the red ones.
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Cortese, L., D. Marcillac, J. Richard, H. Bravo-Alfaro, J. P. Kneib, G. Rieke, G. Covone, et al. "The Strong Transformation of Spiral Galaxies Infalling into Massive Clusters at z~ 0.2." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2, S235 (August 2006): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921306006041.
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AbstractWe report the discovery of two peculiar galaxies infalling into the lensing clusters of galaxies Abell 1689 (z~ 0.18) and 2667 (z~ 0.23). Hubble Space Telescope images show extraordinary trails composed by blue bright knots and stellar streams associated with both these systems, an ~L* and ~0.1L* galaxy. Under the combined action of tidal interaction with the cluster potential and of ram pressure by the intra-cluster medium the morphologies and star formation histories of these two galaxies are strongly perturbed. While in the massive system tidal interactions are the dominant effect and are able to produce a sinking of gas towards the galaxy center triggering a strong burst of star formation and changing galaxy's morphology, in the smaller galaxy the effects of gravitation are reduced by ram pressure stripping which blows away the neutral hydrogen from the galactic disk, quenching the star formation activity and transforming a gas rich late type spiral into quiescent disk dominated early type system. This result is a new additional evidence that galaxy mass represents the main driver of galaxy evolution, even during their dive into the harsh cluster environment and can give additional insights on the origin of S0s and dwarf cluster galaxies.
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Verdugo, Miguel, and Bodo L. Ziegler. "Galaxy Population in the Infall Regions of Intermediate Redshift Clusters." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2, S235 (August 2006): 254. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921306006508.
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AbstractWe investigate the galaxy populations in 6 clusters of different x-ray luminosities at intermediate redshifts (z ≈ 0.25) concentrating on their star formation activity. Our ~500 Calar Alto MOSCA spectra come from targets covering large fields out to 2–4 cluster virial radii. To probe this so-called infall region is important since here newly arriving galaxies from the surrounding field encounter the special environment of clusters for the first time. We selected 3 fields containing 2 clusters each from the X-ray Dark Cluster Survey (Gilbank et al. 2004). Results for one field were already published by Gerken et al. 2004.We find evidence that the process(es) that suppresses or truncates the star formation activity in cluster galaxies, sets in already at rather large distances from the cluster cores corresponding to low projected local galaxy densities. This changes the fraction of star forming galaxies rather quickly.
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Piatti, Andrés E. "Globular Cluster Candidates in the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy." Astronomical Journal 162, no. 6 (November 24, 2021): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2833.
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Abstract Recently, new Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf-galaxy globular clusters were discovered, which opens the question of the actual size of the Sgr globular cluster population, and therefore on our understanding of the Sgr galaxy formation and accretion history of the Milky Way. Based on Gaia EDR3 and SDSS IV DR16 (APOGEE-2) data sets, we performed an analysis of the color–magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of the eight new Sgr globular clusters found by Minniti et al. from a sound cleaning of the contamination of Milky Way and Sgr field stars, complemented by available kinematic and metal abundance information. The cleaned CMDs and spatial stellar distibutions reveal the presence of stars with a wide range of cluster membership probabilities. Minni 332 turned out to be a younger (<9 Gyr) and more metal-rich ([M/H] ≳ −1.0 dex) globular cluster than M54, the nuclear Sgr globular cluster; as could also be the case of Minni 342, 348, and 349, although their results are less convincing. Minni 341 could be an open cluster candidate (age < 1 Gyr, [M/H] ∼ −0.3 dex), while the analyses of Minni 335, 343, and 344 did not allow us to confirm their physical reality. We also built the Sgr cluster frequency (CF) using available ages of the Sgr globular clusters and compared it with that obtained from the Sgr star formation history. Both CFs are in excellent agreement. However, the addition of eight new globular clusters with ages and metallicities distributed according to the Sgr age–metallicity relationship turns out in a remarkably different CF.
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Hattori, M. "A Metal Enriched Dark Cluster of Galaxies at Z = 1." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 187 (2002): 129–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900113841.
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Looking for and studying very distant galaxy clusters, clusters at z > 1, are one of the prime subjects of the modern observational cosmology. If the metallicity of the hot intra-cluster medium in very distant galaxy clusters is measured for example, it provides fruitful informations for us to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, difficulty of the study is that there is few confirmed very distant galaxy clusters yet. We first have to search for very distant clusters but it requires very deep observations. A random selection of sky is not practical. We have to select the sky. In this article, it is demonstrated that missing lens problem has close connection with very distant cluster of galaxies and dark lens searches could open a new window for studying very distant cluster of galaxies.
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Kapferer, W., T. Kronberger, W. Domainko, S. Schindler, E. van Kampen, S. Kimeswenger, M. Ruffert, M. Mair, and D. Breitschwerdt. "Metal Enrichment Processes in the ICM – Starbursts and Galactic Winds." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2, S235 (August 2006): 212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921306006181.
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AbstractWe present an investigation of the metal enrichment of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) by galactic winds and merger-driven starbursts. We use combined N-body/hydrodynamic simulations with a semi-numerical galaxy formation model. The inhomogeneities in the metal distribution caused by these processes are an ideal tool to reveal the dynamical state of a galaxy cluster. We show that X-ray weighted metal maps distinguish between pre- or post-merger galaxy clusters by comparing the metallicity distribution with the galaxy-density distribution: pre-mergers have a metallicity gap between the subclusters, post-mergers a high metallicity between subclusters.
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Schiavi, R., R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta, I. Y. Georgiev, M. Arca-Sedda, and A. Mastrobuono-Battisti. "Are we observing an NSC in course of formation in the NGC 4654 galaxy?" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 503, no. 1 (February 18, 2021): 594–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab458.
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ABSTRACT We use direct N-body simulations to explore some possible scenarios for the future evolution of two massive clusters observed towards the centre of NGC 4654, a spiral galaxy with mass similar to that of the Milky Way. Using archival HST data, we obtain the photometric masses of the two clusters, M = 3 × 105 M⊙ and M = 1.7 × 106 M⊙, their half-light radii, Reff ∼ 4 pc and Reff ∼ 6 pc, and their projected distances from the photometric centre of the galaxy (both <22 pc). The knowledge of the structure and separation of these two clusters (∼24 pc) provides a unique view for studying the dynamics of a galactic central zone hosting massive clusters. Varying some of the unknown cluster orbital parameters, we carry out several N-body simulations showing that the future evolution of these clusters will inevitably result in their merger. We find that, mainly depending on the shape of their relative orbit, they will merge into the galactic centre in less than 82 Myr. In addition to the tidal interaction, a proper consideration of the dynamical friction braking would shorten the merging times up to few Myr. We also investigate the possibility to form a massive nuclear star cluster (NSC) in the centre of the galaxy by this process. Our analysis suggests that for low-eccentricity orbits, and relatively long merger times, the final merged cluster is spherical in shape, with an effective radius of few parsecs and a mass within the effective radius of the order of $10^5\, \mathrm{M_{\odot }}$. Because the central density of such a cluster is higher than that of the host galaxy, it is likely that this merger remnant could be the likely embryo of a future NSC.
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Freundlich, Jonathan, and Dan Maoz. "The delay time distribution of Type-Ia supernovae in galaxy clusters: the impact of extended star-formation histories." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 502, no. 4 (February 20, 2021): 5882–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab493.
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ABSTRACT The delay time distribution (DTD) of Type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is important for understanding chemical evolution, SN Ia progenitors, and SN Ia physics. Past estimates of the DTD in galaxy clusters have been deduced from SN Ia rates measured in cluster samples observed at various redshifts, corresponding to different time intervals after a presumed initial brief burst of star formation. A recent analysis of a cluster sample at z = 1.13–1.75 confirmed indications from previous studies of lower redshift clusters, that the DTD has a power-law form, DTD(t) = R1(t/Gyr)α, with amplitude R1, at delay $t=1\,\rm Gyr$, several times higher than measured in field-galaxy environments. This implied that SNe Ia are somehow produced in larger numbers by the stellar populations in clusters. This conclusion, however, could have been affected by the implicit assumption that the stars were formed in a single brief starburst at high z. Here, we re-derive the DTD from the cluster SN Ia data, but relax the single-burst assumption. Instead, we allow for a range of star-formation histories and dust extinctions for each cluster. Via MCMC modelling, we simultaneously fit, using stellar population synthesis models and DTD models, the integrated galaxy-light photometry in several bands, and the SN Ia numbers discovered in each cluster. With these more-realistic assumptions, we find a best-fitting DTD with power-law index $\alpha =-1.09_{-0.12}^{+0.15}$, and amplitude $R_1=0.41_{-0.10}^{+0.12}\times 10^{-12}\,{\rm yr}^{-1}\, {\rm M}_\odot ^{-1}$. We confirm a cluster-environment DTD with a larger amplitude than the field-galaxy DTD, by a factor ∼2–3 (at 3.8σ). Cluster and field DTDs have consistent slopes of α ≈ −1.1.
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Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik. "Are globular clusters the natural outcome of regular high-redshift star formation?" Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 10, S312 (August 2014): 147–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921315007759.
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AbstractWe summarise the recent progress in understanding the formation and evolution of globular clusters (GCs) in the context of galaxy formation and evolution. It is discussed that an end-to-end model for GC formation and evolution should capture four different phases: (1) star and cluster formation in the high-pressure interstellar medium of high-redshift galaxies, (2) cluster disruption by tidal shocks in the gas-rich host galaxy disc, (3) cluster migration into the galaxy halo, and (4) the final evaporation-dominated evolution of GCs until the present day. Previous models have mainly focussed on phase 4. We present and discuss a simple model that includes each of these four steps – its key difference with respect to previous work is the simultaneous addition of the high-redshift formation and early evolution of young GCs, as well as their migration into galaxy haloes. The new model provides an excellent match to the observed GC mass spectrum and specific frequency, as well as the relations of GCs to the host dark matter halo mass and supermassive black hole mass. These results show (1) that the properties of present-day GCs are reproduced by assuming that they are the natural outcome of regular high-redshift star formation (i.e. they form according to same physical processes that govern massive cluster formation in the local Universe), and (2) that models only including GC evaporation strongly underestimate their integrated mass loss over a Hubble time.
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de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M., D. Falceta-Gonçalves, J. S. Gallagher, C. Melioli, A. D'Ercole, and F. Brighenti. "The role of SN-driven turbulence on the formation of outflows, inflows and cooling flows: from Galaxies to Clusters of Galaxies." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 5, H15 (November 2009): 452–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921310010240.
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AbstractStar forming galaxies often exhibit hot halos with structures that resemble chimneys and fountains extending for several kpc above the galaxy. Observations indicate that they are probably produced by supernovae (SNe) which blow superbubbles that carve holes in the disk. Through these holes, high speed material is injected and expands buoyantly up to a maximum height and then returns to the disk pulled by the galaxy gravity. This circulating gas in a fountain tends to condense out forming high-velocity clouds and filaments. Starburst galaxies also show evidence that the spectacular winds that arise from their disk are fed by SNe explosions. Similarly, at galaxy cluster scales, most massive clusters exhibit rich filamentary structure of ionized gas which is distributed all around the central galaxy. We discuss here the role that SNe bubbles play in driving outflows and filamentary structures both at galaxy and galaxy-cluster scales. With the help of HD and MHD numerical simulations, we show in particular that SN-driven turbulence may play a key role at helping a central AGN halting and ”isotropize” the cooling flow in the central regions of a galaxy cluster.
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Strazzullo, V., M. Pannella, J. J. Mohr, A. Saro, M. L. N. Ashby, M. B. Bayliss, S. Bocquet, et al. "Galaxy populations in the most distant SPT-SZ clusters." Astronomy & Astrophysics 622 (February 2019): A117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833944.
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We present the first results from a galaxy population study in the highest redshift galaxy clusters identified in the 2500 deg2 South Pole Telescope Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect (SPT-SZ) survey, which is sensitive to M500 ≳ 3 × 1014 M⊙ clusters from z ∼ 0.2 out to the highest redshifts where such massive structures exist. The cluster selection is to first order independent of galaxy properties, making the SPT-SZ sample particularly well suited for cluster galaxy population studies. We carried out a four-band imaging campaign with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes of the five z ≳ 1.4, S/NSZE > 5 clusters, that are among the rarest most massive clusters known at this redshift. All five clusters show clear overdensities of red galaxies whose colors agree with the initial cluster redshift estimates, although one (SPT-CLJ0607–4448) shows a galaxy concentration much less prominent than the others. The highest redshift cluster in this sample, SPT-CLJ0459–4947 at z ∼ 1.72, is the most distant M500 > 1014 M⊙ cluster discovered thus far through its intracluster medium, and is one of only three known clusters in this mass range at z ≳ 1.7, regardless of selection. Based on UVJ-like photometric classification of quiescent and star-forming galaxies, we find that the quiescent fraction in the cluster central regions (r/r500 < 0.7) is higher than in the field at the same redshift, with corresponding environmental quenching efficiencies typically in the range ∼0.5 − 0.8 for stellar masses log(M/M⊙) > 10.85. We have explored the impact of emission from star formation on the selection of this sample, concluding that all five clusters studied here would still have been detected with S/NSZE> 5, even if they had the same quiescent fraction as measured in the field. Our results thus point towards an efficient suppression of star formation in the central regions of the most massive clusters, occurring already earlier than z ∼ 1.5.
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Brodie, Jean P. "Constraints on Galaxy Formation from Extragalactic Globular Clusters." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 187 (2002): 175–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900113907.
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The merger model for elliptical galaxy formation has received increasing attention since it was first suggested by Toomre & Toomre (1972). Van den Bergh (1984) pointed out a problem with the idea that elliptical galaxies were formed by simply combining two, or more, spiral galaxies. He noted that the specific frequency (SN, number of globular clusters per unit galaxy light) is systematically lower for spirals than for ellipticals. Schweizer (1987) suggested that globular clusters might be expected to form in the merger process, thereby alleviating or possibly eliminating the SN problem. Ashman & Zepf (1992) developed this idea into a merger model for globular cluster formation with testable predictions.
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Keel, William C., and Kirk D. Borne. "Massive Star Clusters in Ongoing Galaxy Interactions: Clues to Cluster Formation." Astronomical Journal 126, no. 3 (September 2003): 1257–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/377482.
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