Galaxies at the edges: a complete census of MACS J0416.1-2403 cluster
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| author | Ragusa, Rossella D'Addona, Maurizio Mercurio, Amata Longhetti, Marcella Girardi, Marisa Annunziatella, Marianna Estrada, Nicolas Grillo, Claudio Iovino, Angela Rodighiero, Giula Rosati, Piero Vulcani, Benedetta Angora, Giuseppe Bohringer, Hans Brescia, Massimo Caminha, Gabriel Bartosch Chon, Gayoung Getman, Fedor Grado, Aniello Gullieuszik, Marco Limatola, Luca Moretti, Alessia Pecoraro, Luisa |
| author_facet | Ragusa, Rossella D'Addona, Maurizio Mercurio, Amata Longhetti, Marcella Girardi, Marisa Annunziatella, Marianna Estrada, Nicolas Grillo, Claudio Iovino, Angela Rodighiero, Giula Rosati, Piero Vulcani, Benedetta Angora, Giuseppe Bohringer, Hans Brescia, Massimo Caminha, Gabriel Bartosch Chon, Gayoung Getman, Fedor Grado, Aniello Gullieuszik, Marco Limatola, Luca Moretti, Alessia Pecoraro, Luisa |
| contents | Numerous studies have established that the environment influences the physical properties of a galaxy. While gas inflows supply the fuel for SF, high density and temperature conditions suppress SF activity through various quenching processes. Investigations into large scale structures, such as filaments and overdense regions in the cluster outskirts, have focused on the low z. To move to intermediate z and explore galaxy pathways combined with environmental effects, it is crucial to join wide field spectroscopy and deep photometry. Our primary objective is to spectroscopically analyze the photometric overdensities observed by Estrada et al.(2023) in the outskirts of massive cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 (z=0.397), interpreted as evidence of ongoing group infall, i.e. the pre processing scenario, and to investigate the behavior of galaxies in the outskirts about their g-r color, Mstar, and local density, emphasizing the influence of the environment on galaxy evolution. We conducted a spectroscopic analysis out to 5.5R200, using the AAOmega spectrograph. The large FoV and depth allowed us to explore galaxies up to the cluster periphery and across a wide Mstar range, reaching down to the limit of dwarf galaxies. Redshifts were obtained through independent but comparable methods: Redrock, EZ, and Redmost. We identified 148 new spectroscopic cluster members from a sample of 1236 objects. We found 81 galaxies located in filamentary and overdense regions, supporting the role of filamentary infall in the cluster mass assembly history. Our analysis revealed that galaxies in high density regions are more massive, redder, and more passive, compared to galaxies in low density regions that appear to be bluer, less massive, and more SF. These findings underscore the significance of environmental effects and the role of pre processing in shaping galaxy properties before cluster infall. |
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| spellingShingle | Galaxies at the edges: a complete census of MACS J0416.1-2403 cluster Ragusa, Rossella D'Addona, Maurizio Mercurio, Amata Longhetti, Marcella Girardi, Marisa Annunziatella, Marianna Estrada, Nicolas Grillo, Claudio Iovino, Angela Rodighiero, Giula Rosati, Piero Vulcani, Benedetta Angora, Giuseppe Bohringer, Hans Brescia, Massimo Caminha, Gabriel Bartosch Chon, Gayoung Getman, Fedor Grado, Aniello Gullieuszik, Marco Limatola, Luca Moretti, Alessia Pecoraro, Luisa Astrophysics of Galaxies Numerous studies have established that the environment influences the physical properties of a galaxy. While gas inflows supply the fuel for SF, high density and temperature conditions suppress SF activity through various quenching processes. Investigations into large scale structures, such as filaments and overdense regions in the cluster outskirts, have focused on the low z. To move to intermediate z and explore galaxy pathways combined with environmental effects, it is crucial to join wide field spectroscopy and deep photometry. Our primary objective is to spectroscopically analyze the photometric overdensities observed by Estrada et al.(2023) in the outskirts of massive cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 (z=0.397), interpreted as evidence of ongoing group infall, i.e. the pre processing scenario, and to investigate the behavior of galaxies in the outskirts about their g-r color, Mstar, and local density, emphasizing the influence of the environment on galaxy evolution. We conducted a spectroscopic analysis out to 5.5R200, using the AAOmega spectrograph. The large FoV and depth allowed us to explore galaxies up to the cluster periphery and across a wide Mstar range, reaching down to the limit of dwarf galaxies. Redshifts were obtained through independent but comparable methods: Redrock, EZ, and Redmost. We identified 148 new spectroscopic cluster members from a sample of 1236 objects. We found 81 galaxies located in filamentary and overdense regions, supporting the role of filamentary infall in the cluster mass assembly history. Our analysis revealed that galaxies in high density regions are more massive, redder, and more passive, compared to galaxies in low density regions that appear to be bluer, less massive, and more SF. These findings underscore the significance of environmental effects and the role of pre processing in shaping galaxy properties before cluster infall. |
| title | Galaxies at the edges: a complete census of MACS J0416.1-2403 cluster |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11216 |