Spectroscopically Confirmed Large-Scale Structures Associated to a z=0.83 Cluster

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2005-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511296v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:1392-1404,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09841.x

(Abridged) We present a discovery of definitive large-scale structures around RXJ0152.7--1352 at z=0.83 based on spectroscopic redshifts. In our previous papers, we reported a photometric identification of the large-scale structures at z~0.8. A spectroscopic follow-up observation was carried out on 8 selected regions covering the most prominent structures to confirm their association to the main cluster. In six out of the eight fields, a well isolated peak is identified in the distribution of spectroscopic redshifts at or near the cluster redshift. This is strong evidence for the presence of large-scale structures associated to the main cluster at z=0.83. We then investigate stellar populations of galaxies in the structures. The composite spectra are constructed from a number of red member galaxies on the colour-magnitude sequence. We consider three representative environments -- cluster, group, and field. The ``cluster'' red galaxies do not show any sign of on-going or recent star formation activities and the passive evolution can naturally link them to the present-day red sequence galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In contrast, the red galaxies in ``groups'' and in the ``field'' tend to show signs of remaining and/or recent star formation activities characterized by weak [OII] emissions and/or strong H delta absorptions. Our current data seem to favour a scenario that star formation is truncated in a short time scale (<1Gyr). This would imply that galaxy-galaxy interactions are responsible for the truncation of star formation.

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