The Evolution of Galaxies and Groups in Cluster Environments at 0.3 < z < 0.6

Autor:	H. K. C. Yee, M. D. Gladders, Bau-Ching Hsieh, I-hui Li, D. G. Gilbank
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Physics Space and Planetary Science Cluster (physics) Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Redshift Galaxy
Zdroj:	Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 2:220-220
ISSN:	1743-9221 1743-9213
DOI:	10.1017/s1743921306006260
Popis:	We investigate the dependence of galaxy populations on environment. Our samples are selected from the follow-up of Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) catalogs using wide-field BVRz' imaging for 60 intermediate redshift (0.3 < z < 0.6) clusters. Galaxy redshifts are estimated using an empirical photometric redshift technique with a training set of 3996 galaxies to z 1.4. To obtain photometric redshift probability density for each galaxy, we bootstrap the training set galaxies to estimate the fitting uncertainties and apply Monte-Carlo method to simulate galaxy magnitudes errors. In order to find galaxy groups using photometric redshift, we develop a modified friends-of-friends algorithm, ‘Probability Friends-of-Friends Algorithm (pFOF)’, where photometric redshift redshift probability densities of individual galaxies are used to determine member galaxies of a group. We calculate the red galaxy fraction to infer the evolutionary status of cluster galaxies and also for galaxies in groups selected in the same redshift space as the clusters.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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