LoCuSS: Luminous infrared galaxies in the merging cluster Abell 1758 at z=0.28

Details LoCuSS: Luminous infrared galaxies in the merging cluster Abell 1758 at z=0.28 LoCuSS: Luminous infrared galaxies in the merging cluster Abell 1758 at z=0.28

2009-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/0903.4911v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

13 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We present the first galaxy evolution results from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS), a multi-wavelength survey of 100 X-ray selected galaxy clusters at 0.15 5x10^10 L_sun. The obscured activity in A1758 is therefore comparable with that in Cl 0024+1654, the most active cluster previously studied at 24um. The obscured galaxies faithfully trace the cluster potential as revealed by the weak-lensing mass map of the cluster, including numerous mass peaks at R~2-3Mpc that are likely associated with infalling galaxy groups and filamentary structures. However the core (R<500kpc) of A1758N is 2x more active in the IR than that of A1758S, likely reflecting differences in the recent dynamical history of the two clusters. The 24micron results from A1758 therefore suggest that dust-obscured cluster galaxies are common in merging clusters and suggests that obscured activity in clusters is triggered by both the details of cluster-cluster mergers and processes that operate at larger radii including those within in-falling groups. Our ongoing far-UV through far-IR observations of a large sample of clusters should allow us to disentangle the different physical processes responsible for triggering obscured star formation in clusters.

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