Morphological evolution of cluster galaxies

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Jul 2004

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Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Intense Life in the Suburbs. Edited by Antonaldo Diaferio, IAU Colloquium #195, p.519-523

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The recent discovery of hidden non-axysimmetric and disk-like structures in bright Virgo dwarf elliptical and lenticular galaxies indicates that they may have late-type progenitors. Using high resolution N-body simulations we follow the evolution of disk galaxies within a ΛCDM cluster simulated with 107 particles where the hierarchical growth and galaxy harassment are modelled self-consistently. Most of the galaxies undergo significant morphological transformation, even at the outskirts of the cluster, and move through the Hubble sequence from disks to spheroidals. The time evolution of the simulated galaxies is compared with unsharp-masked images from the VLT and we compare the kinematics of our models with the latest high resolution spectroscopic studies from the Keck telescope. We will also discuss the properties of diffuse intra-cluster light formed by tidal debris stripped away from the infalling disks by gravitational interactions.

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