The Morphological, Photometric, and Spectroscopic Properties of Intermediate Redshift Cluster Galaxies

Details The Morphological, Photometric, and Spectroscopic Properties of Intermediate Redshift Cluster Galaxies The Morphological, Photometric, and Spectroscopic Properties of Intermediate Redshift Cluster Galaxies

Jul 2004

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HST Proposal ID #10326

Computer Science

Hst Proposal Id #10326

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We will use the ACS/WFC to image 8 fields in the outskirts of the kT=5.8keV, X-ray cluster RX J0152-13 at z=0.83, for which we obtained imaging in four central fields during Cycle 11. The resulting wide-field mosaic of RX J0152-13 will enable direct study of the population of galaxies falling into this cluster and will provide a much needed comparison to our on-going wide-field study of the more massive, 10.5keV cluster MS1054-03 at the same redshift. Imaging RX J0152-13 to twice its viral radius enables us to: {1} trace the transformation of infalling field spirals into cluster early-types using, e.g., the morphology-density relation to large radii and very low local densities; {2} determine the importance of galaxy-galaxy interactions, i.e., whether the frequency of such encounters in the infall region is as unexpectedly high as found in MS1054-03; and {3} study in detail the star-formation histories of the most recently accreted members via accurate colors and morphologies. A comparison of RX J0152-13 with MS1054-03 will also allow us to directly probe the dependence of galaxy evolution on cluster mass. Only by pairing the wide-field ACS mosaic of RX J0152-13 with multi-object spectroscopy from the Magellan, Keck, and VLT telescopes can we test predictions from galaxy formation models, understand how field spirals evolve into early-type cluster members, and better constrain the formation of galaxies in general.

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