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The stellar content of brightest cluster galaxies [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2000
We present near-infrared K-band spectroscopy of 21 elliptical or cD Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs), for which we have measured the strength of the 2.293 micron CO stellar absorption feature.
Abell, B. Mobasher, Bautz, Doyon, Faber, Hoessel, Hoessel, James, Lauer, Lauer, Mobasher, Mobasher, Oliva, Origlia, P. A. James, Puxley, Renzini, Sandage, Sandage, Sandage, Worthey   +20 more
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The brightest UV-selected galaxies in protoclusters at $z\sim4$: Ancestors of Brightest Cluster Galaxies? [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2019
We present the results of a survey of the brightest UV-selected galaxies in protoclusters. These proto-brightest cluster galaxy (proto-BCG) candidates are drawn from 179 overdense regions of $g$-dropout galaxies at $z\sim4$ from the Hyper Suprime-Cam ...
Higuchi, Ryo, Huang, Song, Ishikawa, Shogo, Ito, Kei, Kashikawa, Nobunari, Komiyama, Yutaka, Kubo, Mariko, Lee, Chien-Hsiu, Liang, Yongming, Martin, Crystal, Onoue, Masafusa, Overzier, Roderik, Shibuya, Takatoshi, Tanaka, Masayuki, Toshikawa, Jun, Uchiyama, Hisakazu   +15 more
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Brightest Cluster Galaxies at the Present Epoch [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2014
We have observed 433 ...
Chisari, Nora E., Graves, Genevieve J., Lauer, Tod R., Postman, Marc, Strauss, Michael A.   +4 more
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Alignment of Brightest Cluster Galaxies with their Host Clusters [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2010
We examine the alignment between Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and their host clusters in a sample of 7031 clusters with 0 ...
Adelman-McCarthy, Allgood, Altay, Annis, Aragon-Salamanca, Baldry, Basilakos, Baum, Bell, Benjamin P. Koester, Binggeli, Bramel, Brown, Carter, Cassata, Ciotti, Cypriano, De Lucia, Djorgovski, Dong, Donoso, Dubinski, Eisenhardt, Faber, Faltenbacher, Faltenbacher, Faltenbacher, Feng Dong, Fuller, Gao, Garijo, Gladders, Gladders, Gunn, Gunn, Hashimoto, Hopkins, Humason, Ivezić, Kawasaki, Kepner, Kim, Knebe, Koester, Koester, Komatsu, Lambas, Lauer, Loh, Lubin, Lupton, Mandelbaum, Martin Niederste-Ostholt, Merritt, Michael A. Strauss, Navarro, Pier, Postman, Postman, Rhee, Ruszkowski, Sastry, Schlegel, Schuecker, Skibba, Splinter, Stoughton, Strateva, Struble, Struble, Timothy A. McKay, Torlina, Tremaine, Tremaine, Trevese, Tucker, Uomoto, Wang, West, Yang, Yasuda, Yee, York   +82 more
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A Photometric Survey of Globular Cluster Systems in Brightest Cluster Galaxies [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023
Hubble Space Telescope imaging for 26 giant early-type galaxies, all drawn from the MAST archive, is used to carry out photometry of their surrounding globular cluster (GC) systems. Most of these targets are Brightest Cluster Galaxies and their distances
William E. Harris
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A New Test of the Statistical Nature of the Brightest Cluster Galaxies [PDF]

, 2010
A novel statistic is proposed to examine the hypothesis that all cluster galaxies are drawn from the same luminosity distribution (LD). In such a "statistical model" of galaxy LD, the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) are simply the statistical extreme ...
Abazajian, Adelman-McCarthy, Bernardi, Bhavsar, Blanton, Christopher J. Miller, Cooray, Dubinski, Eisenstein, Eisenstein, Gonzalez, Graham, Hansen, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Koester, La Barbera, Lauer, Lin, Lin, Miller, Milosavljević, Spergel, Strateva, Strauss, Tonry, Voevodkin, Yang, Yen-Ting Lin, York, Zheng   +29 more
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Globular Cluster Systems in Brightest Cluster Galaxies. III: Beyond Bimodality [PDF]

, 2016
We present new deep photometry of the rich globular cluster (GC) systems around the Brightest Cluster Galaxies UGC 9799 (Abell 2052) and UGC 10143 (Abell 2147), obtained with the HST ACS and WFC3 cameras. For comparison, we also present new reductions of
Bailin, J., Ciccone, S. M., Eadie, G. M., Geisler, D., Gnedin, O. Y., Harris, W. E., Rothberg, B.   +6 more
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Constraining cold accretion on to supermassive black holes: molecular gas in the cores of eight brightest cluster galaxies revealed by joint CO and CN absorption [PDF]

Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019
To advance our understanding of the fuelling and feedback processes which power the Universe’s most massive black holes, we require a significant increase in our knowledge of the molecular gas which exists in their immediate surroundings.
Tom Rose, A. C. Edge, F. Combes, M. Gaspari, S. Hamer, N. P. H. Nesvadba, A. B. Peck, Craig L. Sarazin, G. Tremblay, Stefi A. Baum, M. N. Bremer, B. R. McNamara, C. P. O’Dea, J. B. R. Oonk, H. R. Russell, P. Salomé, Megan Donahue, A. C. Fabian, G. J. Ferland, R. Mittal, A. N. Vantyghem   +20 more
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The different growth pathways of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and the Intra-Cluster Light [PDF]

Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018
We study the growth pathways of brightest central galaxies (BCGs) and intracluster light (ICE) by means of a semi-analytic model. We assume that ICL forms by stellar stripping of satellite galaxies and violent processes during mergers, and implement two ...
Emanuele Contini, Sukyoung K. Yi, Xi Kang   +2 more
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Stellar population gradients in brightest cluster galaxies [PDF]

, 2012
We present the stellar population and velocity dispersion gradients for a sample of 24 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in the nearby Universe for which we have obtained high quality long-slit spectra at the Gemini telescopes.
Bernardi, Bernstein, Bohringer, Bohringer, Brinchmann, Brough, Brough, Brough, Bruzual, Burke, Burstein, Cappellari, Cardiel, Cardiel, Carollo, Carollo, Carter, Carter, Cavagnolo, Chen, Collins, Collins, Conroy, Crawford, David, Davidge, Davidge, Davies, De Lucia, Dubinski, Edge, Edge, Edwards, Faber, Faber, Finoguenov, Fisher, Fisher, Forbes, Fukazawa, Gorgas, Gorgas, Gunn, Hansen, Hashimoto, Hoessel, Ikebe, Jarrett, Katayama, Kawata, Kormendy, Korn, Kuntschner, Kuntschner, Larson, Lauer, Ledlow, Loubser, Loubser, Loubser, Loubser, Mahdavi, Marquardt, Mehlert, Mehlert, Osmond, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, Patel, Peletier, Peres, Peterson, Pipino, Plionis, Postman, S. I. Loubser, Sakelliou, Sandage, Sarzi, Schechter, Sivanandam, Spolaor, Spolaor, Stott, Stott, Struble, Struble, Struble, Sun, Sánchez-Blázquez, Sánchez-Blázquez, Sánchez-Blázquez, Sánchez-Blázquez, Sánchez-Blázquez, Thomas, Thomas, Trager, Trager, Valentinuzzi, Vikhlinin, Von der Linden, Whiley, White, White, Worthey, Worthey   +104 more
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