Download or read book The Influence of Environment on High redshift Cluster Galaxies written by Anna Delahaye and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Galaxy properties such as colour, star-formation rate, and morphology are influenced by the environments in which they reside. In particular, the environments of galaxy clusters have been shown be very efficient at quenching star-formation and altering other observed galactic properties, although the specific mechanisms responsible for this evolution are not fully understood. Additionally, the effect that the cluster environment has on galaxies does not appear to be consistent at all redshifts, with high-redshift cluster galaxies having different observed properties compared to their local counterparts. In this thesis, two studies are presented that investigate the role of high-redshift galaxy cluster environments on their galactic populations.The first study is an extensive photometric survey of the supercluster RCS2319+00, a massive supercluster system comprising three virialized cluster cores in close proximity with one another in projected space as well as redshift space. The system is located at a redshift of z = 0.9 and is expected to merge into a single 10^15 solar mass cluster by z = 0.5, and is therefore a progenitor of the most massive cluster systems we see in the nearby universe today. Spectroscopic and submillimetre surveys have previously uncovered a complicated system of filamentary structure and infalling groups. To complement the previous studies, we assemble a large multiwavelength catalogue to identify cluster members based on photometric properties.With a photometric catalogue complete with photometric redshifts for over 16,000 objects across the central RCS2319 field, we compile a cluster catalogue of nearly 1,800 cluster members. Using proxies for both local and global environments, we investigate the mass and colour properties of cluster galaxies depending on their specific environments within the supercluster. While we do not find a strong dependence on global environment, we do recover both a mass-density and colour-density relation depending on the local overdensity suggesting that immediate surroundings influence galactic properties more strongly than the overall structure in which it resides.The second study presented investigates the presence of merging systems in high-redshift cluster environments compared to the field. We use a sample of four galaxy clusters (1.59

Download or read book The Influence of Cluster Environment on Galaxies written by Tom Thomas (sterrenkunde) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Influence of Cluster Environment on Galaxies written by Tom Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Galaxy Interactions at Low and High Redshift written by J.E. Barnes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings offer professional astronomers an overview of the rapidly advancing subject of galaxy interactions at low and high redshifts. The symposium gave participants an exciting glimpse of a developing synthesis highlighting galactic encounters and their role in the history of the Universe.

Download or read book Clusters of Galaxies written by William R. Oegerle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected in this volume are the review papers from the Space Telescope Science Institute symposium on Clusters of Galaxies held in May 1989. Fifteen experts in the field have presented summaries of our current understanding of the formation and evolution of clusters and their constituent galaxies. Subjects covered include the existence and importance of subclustering, models of the evolution of clusters and the intracluster medium, the effect of the cluster environment on galaxies, observations of high redshift clusters, and the use of clusters as tracers of large scale structure. This book provides a timely focus for future observational and theoretical work on clusters of galaxies.

Download or read book A Pan Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large Scale Structure written by Manolis Plionis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reviews presented in this volume cover a huge range of cluster of galaxies topics. Readers will find the book essential reading on subjects such as the physics of the ICM gas, the internal cluster dynamics, and the detection of clusters using different observational techniques. The expert chapter authors also cover the huge advances being made in analytical or numerical modeling of clusters, weak and strong lensing effects, and the large scale structure as traced by clusters.

Download or read book Radio Galaxies and the Role of Environment written by Lu Shen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation describes research performed in the field of observational astrophysics as part of the Observations of Redshift Evolution in Large Scale Environment (ORELSE) survey, an ongoing multi-wavelength imaging and spectroscopic campaign investigating galaxyevolution in the environments of large scale structures (LSSs) surrounding 16 known clusters at the redshift range of $0.6 [less than or equal to] z [less than or equal to] 1.3. The aim of this dissertation is to contextualize how environment influences galaxy evolution among radio-emitting galaxies and radio Active Galactic Nucleus (RAGN) in a wide dynamic range of environments over cosmic time. In each of the three main chapters I present a sample of radio galaxies and an analysis of the connection to their environments. In the first part of this dissertation I describe the context of radio galaxies, galaxy environments, and the current state of the ORELSE survey. This initial section will set the framework for the variety of studies presented in this thesis. In the second part of this dissertation I present three studies undertaken to investigate various aspects of radio galaxies and the role of there environments. The first of these studies is an investigation of radio galaxies that are cross-matched to spectroscopically-confirmed galaxies in the large scale structures in the five fields of the ORELSE survey. To appropriately classify radio galaxies and study the properties of them separately, a two stage classification method is designed, where radio galaxies are classified into three sub-classes: active galactic nucleus (AGN), Hybrid, and star-forming galaxy (SFG). AGN tend to be preferentially located in locally dense environments and in the cores of clusters/groups, while SFGs exhibit a strong preference for intermediate-density global environments, with these preferences persisting when comparing to galaxies of similar color and stellar mass. These result has important consequences for galaxy evolutionary scenarios, as these two types of galaxies are thought to be the beginning and the end of galaxy evolution. The second of these studies is an investigation of the quenching effect of radio AGN (RAGN) on their neighboring galaxies. In this study, an elevated fraction of quenched RAGN neighbors was found in the most dense local and cluster environments, compared to those of non-RAGN control samples matched to the RAGN population in colour, stellar mass, and local environment. This result suggests that RAGN residing within clusters might heat the intracluster medium (ICM) affecting both in situ star formation and any inflowing gas that remains in their neighbors. This work has important consequences for understanding AGN feedback out of their host galaxies, which is the subject of much debate among astronomers.The final study in this dissertation is a full investigation of the co-evolution of AGN and star formation in radio galaxies in eight ORELSE fields. This study was first motivated by the Hybrid population analyzed in the first study, whose properties suggested that they have coeval star-formation and AGN activity with high accretion efficiency. Combining radio with mid-infrared and far-infrared data available in the ORELSE survey, the AGN and star formation contributions to the total infrared luminosity are well constrained. I present evidence for AGN quenching of the star formation in a rapid timescale in an orbital motion around the clusters/groups. This result has important consequences for galaxy evolutionary scenarios by connecting the two processes that are difficult to separate observationally and are thought to be related.

Download or read book Clusters of Galaxies Volume 3 Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series written by John S. Mulchaey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of review papers covering clusters of galaxies and related phenomena.

Download or read book Clusters of Galaxies written by W. Oegerle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected in this volume are the review papers from the Space Telescope Science Institute symposium on Clusters of Galaxies held in May 1989. Fifteen experts in the field have presented summaries of our current understanding of the formation and evolution of clusters and their constituent galaxies. Subjects covered include the existence and importance of subclustering, models of the evolution of clusters and the intracluster medium, the effect of the cluster environment on galaxies, observations of high redshift clusters, and the use of clusters as tracers of large scale structure. This book provides a timely focus for future observational and theoretical work on clusters of galaxies.

Download or read book The Evolution of Galaxy Activity in Massive Clusters written by Emil S Noordeh and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of galaxy evolution from the early Universe to the present day is intricately linked to large-scale environment: the environments of galaxies are expected to play a critical role in the development of their morphologies, star formation activity, and the activity of their central Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs). Large scale environment can strongly and rapidly affect gas reservoirs which are a prerequisite for both star formation and SMBH activity. We would expect the effect of environment to be most pronounced in massive galaxy clusters, where both the density of the intracluster medium and number density of galaxies are the highest. This has indeed been established for star formation activity in the local and intermediate redshift universe, where dense, cluster environments are more likely to host elliptical, quiescent galaxies. However, the impact of the cluster environment on SMBH activity has been significantly less clear. At high redshift, the impact of clusters on galaxy activity is even less well understood. This is due to both a decline in the number of massive clusters at high redshift as well as increasing observational difficulty in reliably identifying and characterizing both the clusters themselves and their member galaxies. This dissertation tries to bring some clarity to these unknowns. First, we present an analysis of SMBH activity in a sample of massive clusters at intermediate redshift where we confirm a dependence of this activity on cluster mass. Second, we describe the spectroscopic characterization of one of the highest redshift galaxy clusters ever discovered, existing at a lookback time of more than 10 billion years. We model the stellar population of its member galaxies and trace their formation back to the cosmic dark ages, when the Universe was only 370 million years old. Finally, we do a deep dive into this cluster's galaxy population and find it to be remarkably similar to that of clusters in the local universe. We identify a tremendously enhanced quiescent fraction relative to the field and find evidence for accelerated size-evolution in these quiescent galaxies.

Download or read book Chemical Evolution from Zero to High Redshift written by Jeremy Walsh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy written by Eric D. Feigelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Statistical Methods for Astronomy: With R Applications.

Download or read book Dusty Star forming Galaxies Within High redshift Galaxy Clusters written by Allison Noble and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We present a multi-wavelength perspective of star-forming galaxies within high-redshift galaxy clusters. The clusters derive from the Red-sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) and the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey (SpARCS), and possess ample spectroscopic coverage, yielding numerous confirmed cluster members. This thesis consists of a collection of distinct but related works, focusing on environmental effects within the dense regions of clusters---some of the rarest structures in the Universe. We exploit the high sensitivities of cutting-edge infrared and submillimeter telescopes to glean the wealth of information encoded within the thermal portion of the spectral energy distribution, including infrared luminosities and dust temperatures. This allows us to uncover various trends within the star-forming population as a function of environment. Moreover, we develop a novel definition of environment, based on the phase space of radius and velocity, to account for the various accretion histories of galaxies onto clusters; it thereby probes the time-averaged density that each galaxy population has experienced. Using this tracer of environment, we find a significant depression in the star formation rate per unit stellar mass for star-forming galaxies within cluster cores at z~0.9 and z~1.2, in contrast to the flat trend that results from conventional definitions of environment. We also discover a population of galaxies that have lower dust temperatures compared to both infalling galaxies and those that were accreted at the earliest stages of the formation of the cluster. Taken together, these trends in star formation rate and dust temperature can help elucidate which, if any, quenching mechanisms are active within cluster environments. Finally, we report the serendipitous detection of an overdensity of submillimeter-bright galaxies located behind a merging z~0.9 supercluster, which could signify a highly star-forming protocluster at z~3." --

Download or read book Unravelling the Influence of Environment Redshift and Confusion on the Star Formation in Dusty Galaxies written by Steven Duivenvoorden and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Galaxy Evolution in Groups and Clusters written by Catarina Lobo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galaxy groups and clusters provide excellent laboratories for studying galaxy properties in different environments and at different look-back times. In particular, the recent detections of high-redshift cluster candidates, only possible with the current high-technology instrumentation, add a new dimension to the problem. Along with the ever increasing computing power and sophisticated algorithms to model clusters of galaxies, it may help us to understand the origins of today's groups and clusters, as well as of their member galaxies. These workshop proceedings provide a snapshot of the current research in this subject, covering the observations, theory and numerical simulations relevant to galaxy evolution in groups and clusters. In this book, intended primarily to researchers in the field, particular emphasis is given to the recent impressive progress in the field, on important new results, and on the future prospects and open questions to be tackled.

Download or read book High Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rates in Galaxy Cluster and Field Environments written by Kyle Harris Barbary and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rates from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cluster Supernova Survey, a program designed to efficiently detect and observe high-redshift supernovae by targeting massive galaxy clusters at redshifts 0.9 z HST Cluster Supernova Survey. This is the first cluster SN Ia rate measurement with detected z> 0.9 SNe. The SN Ia rate is found to be 0.50+0.23-0.19 (stat) +0.10-0.09 (sys) h702 SNuB (SNuB = 10-12 SNe Lsun, B-1 yr-1), or in units of stellar mass, 0.36+0.16-0.13 (stat) +0.07-0.06 (sys) h702 SNuM (SNuM = 10-12 SNe Msun-1 yr-1). This represents a factor of approximately 5 +/- 2 increase over measurements of the cluster rate at z s, this measurement in combination with lower-redshift cluster SN Ia rates constrains s = -1.41+0.47-0.40, under the approximation of a single-burst cluster formation redshift of zf = 3. This is generally consistent with expectations for the d̀̀ouble degenerate'' progenitor scenario and inconsistent with some models for the s̀̀ingle degenerate'' progenitor scenario predicting a steeper delay time distribution at large delay times. To check for environmental dependence and the influence of younger stellar populations the rate is also calculated specifically in cluster red-sequence galaxies and in morphologically early-type galaxies, with results similar to the full cluster rate. Finally, the upper limit of one host-less cluster SN Ia detected in the survey implies that the fraction of stars in the intra-cluster medium is less than 0.47 (95% confidence), consistent with measurements at lower redshifts. The volumetric SN Ia rate can also be used to constrain the SN Ia delay time distribution. However, there have been discrepancies in recent analyses of both the high-redshift rate and its implications for the delay time distribution. Here, the volumetric SN Ia rate out to z 0∼ 1.6 is measured, based on 0∼12 SNe Ia in the foregrounds and backgrounds of the clusters targeted in the survey. The rate is measured in four broad redshift bins. The results are consistent with previous measurements at z> 1 and strengthen the case for a SN Ia rate that is greater than approximately 0.6 0× 10-4 h703 yr-1 Mpc-3 at z 0∼ 1 and flattening out at higher redshift. Assumptions about host-galaxy dust extinction used in different high-redshift rate measurements are examined. Different assumptions may account for some of the difference in published results for the z 0∼ 1 rate.

Download or read book The Evolution of Galaxies and Their Environment written by David J. Hollenbach and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: