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 …

Ultra-diffuse galaxies outside clusters: clues to their formation and evolution

J Román, I Trujillo - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We identify six ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) outside clusters in three nearby isolated groups
(0.014< z< 0.026) using very deep imaging in three different Sloan Digital Sky Survey filters …

The Burrell Schmidt deep Virgo survey: tidal debris, galaxy halos, and diffuse intracluster light in the Virgo cluster

JC Mihos, P Harding, JJ Feldmeier… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a deep imaging survey of the Virgo cluster of galaxies,
concentrated around the cores of Virgo subclusters A and B. The goal of this survey was to …

Shredded galaxies as the source of diffuse intrahalo light on varying scales

CW Purcell, JS Bullock, AR Zentner - The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We make predictions for diffuse stellar mass fractions in dark matter halos from the scales of
small spiral galaxies to those of large galaxy clusters. We use an extensively tested analytic …

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 …

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 …

The buildup of the intracluster light of A85 as seen by Subaru's Hyper Suprime-Cam

M Montes, S Brough, MS Owers… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of low surface brightness light in large, deep imaging surveys is still uncharted
territory as automated data reduction pipelines over-subtract or eliminate this light. Using …

Diffuse optical light in galaxy clusters. II. Correlations with cluster properties

JE Krick, RA Bernstein - The Astronomical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We have measured the flux, profile, color, and substructure in the diffuse intracluster light
(ICL) in a sample of 10 galaxy clusters with a range of mass, morphology, redshift, and …

Preparing for low surface brightness science with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory: a comparison of observable and simulated intracluster light fractions

S Brough, SL Ahad, YM Bahé, A Ellien… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Intracluster light (ICL) provides an important record of the interactions galaxy clusters have
undergone. However, we are limited in our understanding by our measurement methods. To …