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Morphology with Light Profile Fitting of Confirmed Cluster Galaxies at z=0.84
We perform a morphological study of 124 spectroscopically confirmed cluster
galaxies in the z=0.84 galaxy cluster RX J0152.7-1357. Our classification
scheme includes color information, visual morphology, and 1-component and
2-component light profile fitting derived from Hubble Space Telescope riz
imaging. We adopt a modified version of a detailed classification scheme
previously used in studies of field galaxies and found to be correlated with
kinematic features of those galaxies. We compare our cluster galaxy
morphologies to those of field galaxies at similar redshift. We also compare
galaxy morphologies in regions of the cluster with different dark-matter
density as determined by weak-lensing maps. We find an early-type fraction for
the cluster population as a whole of 47%, about 2.8 times higher than the
field, and similar to the dynamically young cluster MS 1054 at similar
redshift. We find the most drastic change in morphology distribution between
the low and intermediate dark matter density regions within the cluster, with
the early type fraction doubling and the peculiar fraction dropping by nearly
half. The peculiar fraction drops more drastically than the spiral fraction
going from the outskirts to the intermediate-density regions. This suggests
that many galaxies falling into clusters at z~0.8 may evolve directly from
peculiar, merging, and compact systems into early-type galaxies, without having
the chance to first evolve into a regular spiral galaxy.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&
A Deficit of Faint Red Galaxies in the Possible Large-Scale Structures around the RDCS J1252.9-2927 Cluster at z=1.24
(Abridged) We report a discovery of possible large-scale structures around
the RDCS J1252.9-2927 cluster at z=1.24 based on photometric redshifts. We
carried out multi-band wide-field imaging with Suprime-Cam on the Subaru
Telescope and WFCAM on the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT). The
distribution of photo-z selected galaxies reveals clumpy structures surrounding
the central cluster. We compare the observed structure with an X-ray map and
find that two of the four plausible clumps show significant X-ray emissions and
one with a marginal detection, which strongly suggest that they are dynamically
bound systems. Following the discovery of the possible large-scale structure,
we carried out deeper SOFI K_s-band imaging with New Technology Telescope on
the four plausible clumps. We construct the optical-to-near-infrared
colour-magnitude diagrams of the galaxies in the clumps, and find that the
colour-magnitude relation (CMR) of the red galaxies in the clumps is sharply
truncated below K_s=22. Interestingly, the main cluster shows a clear relation
down to K_s=23 (Lidman et al. 2004). We suggest that galaxies follow the
'environment-dependent down-sizing' evolution. Massive galaxies in high density
environments first stop forming stars and become red. Less massive galaxies in
less dense environments become red at later times. Based on a few assumptions,
we predict that the brightest tip of the CMR appears at z~2.5.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
SmTRC1, a novel Schistosoma mansoni DNA transposon, discloses new families of animal and fungi transposons belonging to the CACTA superfamily
BACKGROUND: The CACTA (also called En/Spm) superfamily of DNA-only transposons contain the core sequence CACTA in their Terminal Inverted Repeats (TIRs) and so far have only been described in plants. Large transcriptome and genome sequence data have recently become publicly available for Schistosoma mansoni, a digenetic blood fluke that is a major causative agent of schistosomiasis in humans, and have provided a comprehensive repository for the discovery of novel genes and repetitive elements. Despite the extensive description of retroelements in S. mansoni, just a single DNA-only transposon belonging to the Merlin family has so far been reported in this organism. RESULTS: We describe a novel S. mansoni transposon named SmTRC1, for S. mansoni Transposon Related to CACTA 1, an element that shares several characteristics with plant CACTA transposons. Southern blotting indicates approximately 30–300 copies of SmTRC1 in the S. mansoni genome. Using genomic PCR followed by cloning and sequencing, we amplified and characterized a full-length and a truncated copy of this element. RT-PCR using S. mansoni mRNA followed by cloning and sequencing revealed several alternatively spliced transcripts of this transposon, resulting in distinct ORFs coding for different proteins. Interestingly, a survey of complete genomes from animals and fungi revealed several other novel TRC elements, indicating new families of DNA transposons belonging to the CACTA superfamily that have not previously been reported in these kingdoms. The first three bases in the S. mansoni TIR are CCC and they are identical to those in the TIRs of the insects Aedes aegypti and Tribolium castaneum, suggesting that animal TRCs may display a CCC core sequence. CONCLUSION: The DNA-only transposable element SmTRC1 from S. mansoni exhibits various characteristics, such as generation of multiple alternatively-spliced transcripts, the presence of terminal inverted repeats at the extremities of the elements flanked by direct repeats and the presence of a Transposase_21 domain, that suggest a distant relationship to CACTA transposons from Magnoliophyta. Several sequences from other Metazoa and Fungi code for proteins similar to those encoded by SmTRC1, suggesting that such elements have a common ancestry, and indicating inheritance through vertical transmission before separation of the Eumetazoa, Fungi and Plants
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Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Clínica Cirúrgica, Curso de Medicina, Florianópolis, 199
Panchromatic Studies of Distant Clusters of Galaxies
High redshift (z >~ 1) clusters are ideal probes to study the formation and
evolution of large scale structures and galaxies in the universe. A 10-m class
ground based telescope, X-ray observatories (Chandra, XMM-Newton) and HST/ACS
are allowing us to perform an unprecedented study of distant massive clusters
of galaxies in the redshift range 0.84<z<1.3, selected from X-rays surveys. In
this paper we summarize our results on the structure and dynamics of two of
these clusters derived from imaging and spectroscopic data as well as our
results on the evolution of early-type galaxies.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Modern Physics
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An Atlas of Spectrophotometric Landolt Standard Stars
We present CCD observations of 102 Landolt standard stars obtained with the
R-C spectrograph on the CTIO 1.5 m telescope. Using stellar atmosphere models
we have extended the flux points to our six spectrophotometric secondary
standards, in both the blue and the red, allowing us to produce flux-calibrated
spectra that span a wavelength range from 3050 \AA to 1.1 \micron. Mean
differences between UBVRI spectrophotometry computed using Bessell's standard
passbands and Landolt's published photometry is found to be 1% or less.
Observers in both hemispheres will find these spectra useful for
flux-calibrating spectra and through the use of accurately constructed
instrumental passbands be able to compute accurate corrections to bring
instrumental magnitudes to any desired standard photometric system
(S-corrections). In addition, by combining empirical and modeled spectra of the
Sun, Sirius and Vega, we calculate and compare synthetic photometry to observed
photometry taken from the literature for these three stars.Comment: Added referee's comments, minor corrections, replaced Table 1
Discovery of ram-pressure stripped gas around an elliptical galaxy in Abell 2670
Studies of cluster galaxies are increasingly finding galaxies with
spectacular one-sided tails of gas and young stars, suggestive of intense
ram-pressure stripping. These so-called "jellyfish" galaxies typically have
late-type morphology. In this paper, we present MUSE observations of an
elliptical galaxy in Abell 2670 with long tails of material visible in the
optical spectra, as well as blobs with tadpole-like morphology. The spectra in
the central part of the galaxy reveals a stellar component as well as ionized
gas. The stellar component does not have significant rotation, while the
ionized gas defines a clear star-forming gas disk. We argue, based on deep
optical images of the galaxy, that the gas was most likely acquired during a
past wet merger. It is possible that the star-forming blobs are also remnants
of the merger. In addition, the direction and kinematics of the one-sided
ionized tails, combined with the tadpole morphology of the star-forming blobs,
strongly suggests that the system is undergoing ram pressure from the
intracluster medium. In summary, this paper presents the discovery of a
post-merger elliptical galaxy undergoing ram pressure stripping.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
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