The faint light in groups and clusters of galaxies

M Montes - Nature Astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
The diffuse light that spreads through groups and clusters of galaxies is made of free-floating
stars not bound to any galaxy. This is known as the intracluster light (ICL) and holds …

On the origin and evolution of the intra-cluster light: a brief review of the most recent developments

E Contini - Galaxies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Not all the light in galaxy groups and clusters comes from stars that are bound to galaxies. A
significant fraction of it constitutes the so-called intracluster or diffuse light (ICL), a low …

The growth of brightest cluster galaxies in the TNG300 simulation: dissecting the contributions from mergers and in situ star formation

D Montenegro-Taborda… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the formation of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in the TNG300
cosmological simulation of the IllustrisTNG project. Our cluster sample consists of 700 …

Waveform of gravitational waves in the general parity-violating gravities

W Zhao, T Zhu, J Qiao, A Wang - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
As an extension of our previous work [J. Qiao, arXiv: 1909.03815.], in this article, we
calculate the effects of parity violation on gravitational-wave (GW) waveforms during their …

Does the virial mass drive the intra-cluster light?-Relationship between the ICL and Mvir from VEGAS

R Ragusa, E Iodice, M Spavone, M Montes… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
In this Letter, we revisit the relationship between the fraction of the intra-cluster light (ICL) as
well as the virial mass and the fraction of early-type galaxies in the host halo. This …

Structure of brightest cluster galaxies and intracluster light

M Kluge, B Neureiter, A Riffeser… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Observations of 170 local (z≲ 0.08) galaxy clusters in the northern hemisphere have been
obtained with the Wendelstein Telescope Wide Field Imager (WWFI). We correct for …

Dark energy survey year 3 results: measuring the survey transfer function with Balrog

S Everett, B Yanny, N Kuropatkin, EM Huff… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to directly
sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 (Y3) …

The growth of intracluster light in XCS-HSC galaxy clusters from 0.1 < z < 0.5

KE Furnell, CA Collins, LS Kelvin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We estimate the intracluster light (ICL) component within a sample of 18 clusters detected in
the XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) data using the deep (∼ 26.8 mag) Hyper Suprime-Cam …

Photometric dissection of intracluster light and its correlations with host cluster properties

M Kluge, R Bender, A Riffeser, C Goessl… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore several ways to dissect brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and their surrounding
intracluster light (ICL) using a surface brightness (SB) cut, a luminosity cut, excess light …

The dark energy survey data release 2

TMC Abbott, M Adamów, M Aguena… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the second public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR2, based on
optical/near-infrared imaging by the Dark Energy Camera mounted on the 4 m Blanco …