The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)

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A GMOS/IFU Spectroscopic Mapping of Jellyfish Galaxies in Extremely Massive Galaxy Clusters

  • Lee, Jeong Hwan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Myung Gyoon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kang, Jisu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Cho, Brian S. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Mun, Jae Yeon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2020.10.13
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Abstract

Jellyfish galaxies show spectacular features such as star-forming knots and tails due to strong ram-pressure stripping in galaxy clusters. Thus, jellyfish galaxies are very useful targets to investigate the effects of ram-pressure stripping on the star formation activity in galaxies. Integral field spectroscopy (IFS) studies are the best way to study star formation in jellyfish galaxies, but they have been limited to those in low-mass galaxy clusters until now. In this study, we present a Gemini GMOS/IFU study of three jellyfish galaxies in very massive clusters (M_200 > 10^15 Mo). The host clusters (Abell 2744, MACSJ0916.1-0023, and MACSJ1752.0+4440) are X-ray luminous and dynamically unstable, suggesting that ram-pressure stripping in these clusters is much stronger than in low-mass clusters. We present preliminary results of star formation rates, kinematics, dynamical states, and ionization mechanisms of our sample galaxies and discuss how ram-pressure stripping relates with the star formation activity of jellyfish galaxies in massive clusters.

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