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. (Author), Dupke, Renato A. (Author), Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia (Author), Lopes de Oliveira, Raimundo (Author), Proctor, Robert N. (Author), Garmire, Gordon P. (Author), Koester, Benjamin P. (Author), McKay, Timothy A. (Author), Miller, Eric D (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Miller, Eric D. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-02-20T19:55:28Z.
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