Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-vdxz6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T00:36:46.807Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

JD2 - Diffuse Light in Galaxy Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Magda Arnaboldi  and
Ortwin Gerhard
Magda Arnaboldi
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl Schwarzschild-Str 2, 85748 Garching, Germany email: [email protected]
Ortwin Gerhard
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Extraterr. Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, 85748 Garching, Germany email: [email protected]
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Diffuse 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.

Keywords

(cosmology:) large-scale structure of universegalaxies: clusters: generalgalaxies: evolutiongalaxies: interactionsgalaxies: structuregalaxies: kinematics and dynamicsgalaxies: star clusters(ISM:) planetary nebulae: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Highlights H15: Highlights of Astronomy , November 2009 , pp. 97 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

References

Adami, C., Biviano, A., Durret, F., & Mazure, A. 2005a, A&A, 443, 17Google Scholar
Adami, C., et al. 2005b, A&A, 429, 39Google Scholar
Arnaboldi, M., Freeman, K. C., Hui, X., Capaccioli, M., & Ford, H. 1994, The Messenger, 76, 40Google Scholar
Arnaboldi, M., et al. 1996, ApJ, 472, 145CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Arnaboldi, M., Gerhard, O., Aguerri, J. A. L., Freeman, K. C., Napolitano, N. R., Okamura, S., & Yasuda, N. 2004, ApJ, 614, L33CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Arnaboldi, M., Gerhard, O., Okamura, S., Kashikawa, N., Yasuda, N., & Freeman, K. C. 2007, PASJ, 59, 419CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buzzoni, A., Arnaboldi, M., & Corradi, R. L. M. 2006, MNRAS, 368, 877CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ciardullo, R., Sigurdsson, S., Feldmeier, J. J., & Jacoby, G. H. 2005, ApJ, 629, 499CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Coenda, V. & Muriel, H. 2009, A&A, 504, 347Google Scholar
Da Rocha, C., Ziegler, B. L., & Mendes de Oliveira, C. 2008, MNRAS, 388, 1433CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Lorenzi, F., et al. 2009, MNRAS, 395, 76CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Mello, D. F., Torres-Flores, S., & Mendes de Oliveira, C. 2008, AJ, 135, 319CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Doherty, M., et al. 2009, A&A, 502, 771Google Scholar
Dolag, K., Murante, G., & Borgani, S. 2009, arXiv:0911.1129Google Scholar
Durrell, P. R., Ciardullo, R., Feldmeier, J. J., Jacoby, G. H., & Sigurdsson, S. 2002, ApJ, 570, 119CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Faure, C., Giraud, E., Melnick, J., Quintana, H., Selman, F., & Wambsganss, J. 2007, A&A, 463, 833Google Scholar
Feldmeier, J. J., Mihos, J. C., Morrison, H. L., Harding, P., Kaib, N., & Dubinski, J. 2004a, ApJ, 609, 617CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feldmeier, J. J., Ciardullo, R., Jacoby, G. H., & Durrell, P. R. 2004b, ApJ, 615, 196CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gerhard, O., Arnaboldi, M., Freeman, K. C., et al. 2005, ApJ, 621, L93CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gerhard, O., Arnaboldi, M., Freeman, K. C., Okamura, S., Kashikawa, N., & Yasuda, N. 2007, A&A, 468, 815Google Scholar
Girardi, L., Bertelli, G., Bressan, A., Chiosi, C., Groenewegen, M. A. T., Marigo, P., Salasnich, B., & Weiss, A. 2002, A&A, 391, 195Google Scholar
Gonzalez, A. H., Zaritsky, D., & Zabludoff, A. I. 2007, ApJ, 666, 147CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guo, Q., White, S., Li, C., & Boylan-Kolchin, M. 2009, arXiv:0909.4305Google Scholar
Hilbert, S. & White, S. D. M. 2009, arXiv:0907.4371Google Scholar
Jordán, A., et al. 2009, ApJS, 180, 54CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kelson, D. D., Zabludoff, A. I., Williams, K. A., et al. 2002, ApJ, 576, 720CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Krick, J. E. & Bernstein, R. A. 2007, AJ, 134, 466CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mayer, L., Mastropietro, C., Wadsley, J., Stadel, J., & Moore, B. 2006, MNRAS, 369, 1021CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mastropietro, C., Moore, B., Mayer, L., Debattista, V. P., Piffaretti, R., & Stadel, J. 2005, MNRAS, 364, 607CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Melnick, J., Selman, F., & Quintana, H. 1999, PASP, 111, 1444CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mihos, J. C., Harding, P., Feldmeier, J., & Morrison, H. 2005, ApJ, 631, L41CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mihos, J. C., Janowiecki, S., Feldmeier, J. J., Harding, P., & Morrison, H. 2009, ApJ, 698, 1879CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Misgeld, I., Hilker, M., & Mieske, S. 2009, A&A, 496, 683Google Scholar
Murante, G., et al. 2004, ApJ, 607, L83CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murante, G., Giovalli, M., Gerhard, O., Arnaboldi, M., Borgani, S., & Dolag, K. 2007, MNRAS, 377CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pierini, D., Zibetti, S., Braglia, F., Böhringer, H., Finoguenov, A., Lynam, P. D., & Zhang, Y.-Y. 2008, A&A, 483, 727Google Scholar
Richtler, T., Dirsch, B., Gebhardt, K., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 2094CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Saglia, R. P., Kronawitter, A., Gerhard, O., & Bender, R. 2000, AJ, 119, 153CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Salinas, R., Richtler, T., Romanowsky, A. J., West, M. J., & Schuberth, Y. 2007, A&A, 475, 507Google Scholar
Schuberth, Y., Richtler, T., Hilker, M., Dirsch, B., Bassino, L. P., Romanowsky, A. J., & Infante, L. 2009, arXiv:0911.0420Google Scholar
Springel, V., Frenk, C. S., & White, S. D. M. 2006, Nature, 440, 1137CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Takamiya, M., West, M., Côté, P., Jordán, A., Peng, E., & Ferrarese, L. 2009, Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies, 361Google Scholar
Thuan, T. H. & Kormendy, J. 1977, PASP, 89, 466CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Torres-Flores, S., Mendes de Oliveira, C., de Mello, D. F., Amram, P., Plana, H., Epinat, B., & Iglesias-Páramo, J. 2009, A&A, 507, 723Google Scholar
Uson, J. M., Boughn, S. P., & Kuhn, J. R. 1991, ApJ, 369, 46CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Weeren, R. J., Intema, H. T., Oonk, J. B. R., Rottgering, H. J. A., & Clarke, T. E. 2009, arXiv:0910.4967Google Scholar
Ventimiglia, G., Arnaboldi, M., & Gerhard, O. 2008, Astronomische Nachrichten, 329, 1057CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zaritsky, D., Gonzalez, A. H., & Zabludoff, A. I. 2006, ApJ, 638, 725CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zibetti, S., White, S. D. M., Schneider, D. P., & Brinkmann, J. 2005, MNRAS, 358, 949CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, B. F., et al. 2007, ApJ, 656, 756CrossRefGoogle Scholar