FINDING FOSSIL GROUPS: OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION AND X-RAY CONFIRMATION

FINDING FOSSIL GROUPS: OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION AND X-RAY CONFIRMATION

We report the discovery of 12 new fossil groups (FGs) of galaxies, systems dominated by a single giant elliptical galaxy and cluster-scale gravitational potential, but lacking the population of bright galaxies typically seen in galaxy clusters. These FGs, selected from the maxBCG optical cluster cat...

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Main Authors: Rykoff, Eli S., Dupke, Renato A., Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia, Lopes de Oliveira, Raimundo, Proctor, Robert N., Garmire, Gordon P., Koester, Benjamin P., McKay, Timothy A., Miller, Eric D
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95468

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