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The Origin of the Brightest Cluster Galaxies [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 1997
Most clusters and groups of galaxies contain a giant elliptical galaxy in their centres which far outshines and outweighs normal ellipticals. The origin of these brightest cluster galaxies is intimately related to the collapse and formation of the ...
Binggeli B., Carter D., Carter D., de Vaucouleurs G., Funato Y., Garijo A., John Dubinski, Kormendy J., Kuijken K., Ostriker J., Rhee G., Tully R., Villumsen J. V., West M. J., White S. D. M.   +14 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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How special are Brightest Group and Cluster Galaxies? [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2007
We use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to construct a sample of 625 brightest group and cluster galaxies (BCGs) together with control samples of non-BCGs matched in stellar mass, redshift, and color.
Allen, Anja Von Der Linden, Aragon-Salamanca, Baldwin, Balogh, Batcheldor, Becker, Beers, Bernardi, Bernardi, Bernardi, Bernardi, Best, Best, Best, Blanton, Blanton, Blanton, Boylan-Kolchin, Brinchmann, Brough, Burns, Condon, Crawford, Crawford, De Lucia, Desroches, Djorgovski, Dubinski, Edwards, Fabian, Finn, Fukugita, Garilli, Gonzalez, Granato, Guinevere Kauffmann, Heckman, Hernquist, Hoessel, James, Jarrett, Jørgensen, Kauffmann, Kauffmann, Kauffmann, Kauffmann, Kewley, Kewley, La Barbera, Lauer, Lupton, Merritt, Miller, Navarro, Oegerle, Osterbrock, Ostriker, Padmanabhan, Pahre, Peterson, Philip N. Best, Porter, Postman, Press, Ryden, Sandage, Schneider, Schombert, Silk, Simon D. M. White, Skrutskie, Springel, Stoughton, Strauss, Thomas, Thuan, Tremaine, Tremonti, Voit, White, White, Worthey, York   +83 more
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The Luminosity Profiles of Brightest Cluster Galaxies [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2011
(Abridged) We have derived detailed R band luminosity profiles and structural parameters for a total of 430 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), down to a limiting surface brightness of 24.5 mag/arcsec^2.
Bernardi, Binggeli, C. J. Donzelli, Caon, Coenda, Conroy, de Vaucouleurs, Donzelli, Ferrarese, Gonzalez, H. Muriel, Hopkins, J. P. Madrid, Jedrzejewski, Kemp, Kormendy, Lauer, Ledlow, O’Dea, Quillen, Rhee, Sérsic, Sérsic   +22 more
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Coevolution of intracluster light and brightest cluster galaxies

Astronomy & Astrophysics
Context. Intracluster light (ICL) is a faint stellar component of galaxy groups and clusters bound to the cluster potential, making up a significant fraction of the cluster mass. The ICL formation and evolution is strongly linked to the brightest cluster
Mayes Rebecca J., Gómez Facundo A., Monachesi Antonela   +2 more
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Parsec-scale Properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies [PDF]

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010
We present new VLBI observations at 5 GHz of a complete sample of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) in nearby Abell Clusters (distance class
Augusto, Baum, Becker, Bernardi, Best, Best, Bird, Blanton, Blanton, Bliton, Bonamente, Bondi, Braine, Brüggen, Burns, Burns, Burns, Bîrzan, Böhringer, Celotti, Chen, Clarke, Condon, Conselice, Cowie, Crawford, David, Dhawan, Di Matteo, Dickey, Donnelly, Dunn, E. Liuzzo, Ebneter, Edge, Eilek, Ensslin, Fabian, Fabian, Fabian, Fabian, Fabian, Fanaroff, Fanti, Feretti, Feretti, Feretti, Feretti, Feretti, Fisher, Flin, Flin, G. B. Taylor, G. Giovannini, Gavazzi, Ge, Gentile, Giovannini, Giovannini, Giovannini, Giovannini, Girardi, Gitti, Govoni, Gregory, Grillmair, Hoessel, Hudson, Johnstone, Jones, Katayama, Kellerman, Krichbaum, Lara, Lara, Lauer, Ledlow, Lee, Lester, Lin, Lister, Lister, Liuzzo, Liuzzo, M. Giroletti, Malumuth, McNamara, McNamara, McNamara, McNamara, Meier, Mohr, Morganti, Morris, Nagai, Nesterov, O'Donoghue, Owen, Owen, Parma, Parma, Pedlar, Rossi, Ruszkowski, Sakelliou, Salomé, Salomé, Schombert, Scodeggio, Silver, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Trussoni, Vallee, Venturi, Venturi, Venturi, Verdoes Kleijn, Vermeulen, Walker, Walker, White, Wise, Xu   +128 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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Models for the Magnitude-Distribution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2000
The brightest, or first-ranked, galaxies (BCGs) in rich clusters show a very small dispersion in luminosity, making them excellent standard candles. This small dispersion has raised questions about the nature of BCGs.
Bernstein, J. P., Bhavsar, Suketu P.
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Constraints On the Size Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2001
We measure the luminosity profiles of 16 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) at $0.4 < z < 0.8$ using high resolution F160W NICMOS and F814W WFPC2 HST imaging. The heterogeneous sample is drawn from a variety of surveys: seven from clusters in the Einstein
Amy E. Nelson, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Aragon-Salamanca A., Baugh C. M., Cole S., Couch W. J., Dennis Zaritsky, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Kauffman G., Luc Simard, Luppino G. A.   +10 more
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Intrinsic Shapes of Brightest Cluster Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal, 2022
Abstract We discuss the statistical distribution of galaxy shapes and viewing angles under the assumption of triaxiality by deprojecting observed surface brightness profiles of 56 brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) coming from a recently published large deep-photometry sample.
Stefano de Nicola, Roberto P. Saglia, Jens Thomas, Claudia Pulsoni, Matthias Kluge, Ralf Bender, Lucas M. Valenzuela, Rhea-Silvia Remus   +7 more
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