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 …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies

A Pillepich, D Nelson, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The IllustrisTNG project is a new suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations
of galaxy formation performed with the arepo code and updated models for feedback …

Intracluster light is already abundant at redshift beyond unity

H Joo, MJ Jee - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Intracluster light (ICL) is diffuse light from stars that are gravitationally bound not to individual
member galaxies, but to the halo of galaxy clusters. Leading theories, predict that the ICL …

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 …

GASP. XXI. Star formation rates in the tails of galaxies undergoing ram pressure stripping

M Gullieuszik, BM Poggianti, SL McGee… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Using MUSE observations from the GASP survey, we study 54 galaxies undergoing ram
pressure stripping (RPS) and spanning a wide range in galaxy mass and host cluster mass …

Intracluster light: a luminous tracer for dark matter in clusters of galaxies

M Montes, I Trujillo - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The bulk of stars in galaxy clusters are confined within their constituent galaxies. Those stars
do not trace the extended distribution of dark matter well as they are located in the central …

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Detection of Intracluster Light at Redshift∼ 0.25

Y Zhang, B Yanny, A Palmese, D Gruen… - The astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Using data collected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we report the detection of
intracluster light (ICL) with∼ 300 galaxy clusters in the redshift range of 0.2–0.3. We design …

Galactic cirri in deep optical imaging

J Román, I Trujillo, M Montes - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
The ubiquitous presence of Galactic cirri in deep optical images represents a major obstacle
to study the low surface brightness features of extragalactic sources. To address this issue …

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 …