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Particle Tagging Method to Study the Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters in Galaxy Clusters

  • Park, So-Myoung;Shin, Jihye;Smith, Rory;Chun, Kyungwon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.29.3-29.3
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    • 2021
  • Globular clusters (GCs) form at the very early stage of galaxy formation, and thus can be used as an important clue indicating the environment of the galaxy formation era. Although various GC formation scenarios have been suggested, they have not been examined in the cosmological context. Here we introduce the 'particle tagging method' in order to investigate the formation scenarios of GCs in a galaxy cluster. This method is able to trace the evolution of GCs that form in the dark matter halos which undergo the hierarchical merging events in galaxy cluster environments with an effective computational time. For this we use dark matter merger trees from the cosmological N-body simulation. Finally, we would like to find out the best GC formation scenario which can explain the observational properties of GCs in galaxy clusters.

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Discovery of a Radio Relic in the Massive Merging Cluster SPT-CL J2023-5535 from the ASKAP-EMU Pilot Survey

  • Kim, HyeongHan;Jee, M. James;Rudnick, Lawrence;Parkinson, David;Finner, Kyle;Yoon, Mijin;Lee, Wonki;Brunetti, Giangranco;Bruggen, Marcus;Collier, Jordan D.;Hopkins, Andrew M.;Michalowski, Michal J.;Norris, Ray P.;Riseley, Chris
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.30.1-30.1
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    • 2020
  • The ASKAP-EMU survey is a deep wide-field radio continuum survey designed to cover the entire southern sky and a significant fraction of the northern sky up to +30°. Here, we report a discovery of a radio relic in the merging cluster SPT-CL J2023-5535 at z=0.23 from the ASKAP-EMU pilot 300 square degree survey (800-1088 MHz). The deep high-resolution data reveal a ~2 Mpc-scale radio halo elongated in the east-west direction, coincident with the intracluster gas. The radio relic is located at the western edge of this radio halo stretched ~0.5 Mpc in the north-south orientation. The integrated spectral index of the radio relic within the narrow bandwidth is α1088MHz800MHz = -0.76 ± 0.06. Our weak-lensing analysis shows that the system is massive (M200 = 1.04 ± 0.36 × 1015M⊙) and composed of at least three subclusters. We suggest a scenario, wherein the radio features arise from the collision between the eastern and middle subclusters. Furthermore, the direct link between the local AGN and the relic along with the discontinuities in X-ray observation hint us that we are looking at the site of re-acceleration.

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Clustering Method for Reduction of Cluster Center Distortion (클러스터 중심 왜곡 저감을 위한 클러스터링 기법)

  • Jeong, Hye-C.;Seo, Suk-T.;Lee, In-K.;Kwon, Soon-H.
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.354-359
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    • 2008
  • Clustering is a method to classify the given data set with same property into several classes. To cluster data, many methods such as K-Means, Fuzzy C-Means(FCM), Mountain Method(MM), and etc, have been proposed and used. But the clustering results of conventional methods are sensitively influenced by initial values given for clustering in each method. Especially, FCM is very sensitive to noisy data, and cluster center distortion phenomenon is occurred because the method dose clustering through minimization of within-clusters variance. In this paper, we propose a clustering method which reduces cluster center distortion through merging the nearest data based on the data weight, and not being influenced by initial values. We show the effectiveness of the proposed through experimental results applied it to various types of data sets, and comparison of cluster centers with those of FCM.

Spatial Configuration of Stars around Metal-Poor Globular Clusters in the Galactic Bulge

  • Han, Mi-Hwa;Chun, Sang-Hyun;Chang, Cho-Rhong;Jung, Mi-Young;Lim, Dong-Wook;Sohn, Young-Jong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.30.1-30.1
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    • 2009
  • We present extra-tidal features of spatial configuration of stars around three metal-poor globular clusters (NGC 6273, NGC 6266, NGC 6681) located in the Galactic bulge. The accurate wide-field photometric data were obtained in BVI bands with the MOSAICII camera at CTIO Blanco 4m telescope. The derived color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) covered a total $71'\times71'$ area including a cluster and its surrounding field outside of the tidal radius of the cluster. Applying the statistical technique of the CMD-mask algorithm, we minimized the field star contaminations on the obtained CMDs and chose properly the cluster's member stars. On the spatial stellar density maps around the target clusters, we found overdensity features beyond the tidal radii of the clusters. We also found that the radial density profiles of the clusters show departures from the best-fit King model for the outer region of clusters. The results add further observational evidence that the observed metal-poor bulge clusters would be originated from accreted satellite systems, indicative of the merging scenario of the formation of the Galaxy.

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Tree Based Cluster Analysis Using Reference Data (배경자료를 이용한 나무구조의 군집분석)

  • 최대우;구자용;최용석
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.535-545
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    • 2004
  • The clustering method suggested in this paper produces clusters based on the 'rules of variables' by merging the 'training' and the identically structured reference data and then by filtering it to obtain the clusters of the 'training data' through the use of the 'tree classification model'. The reference dataset is generated by spatially contrasting it to the 'training data' through the 'reverse arcing' algorithm to effectively identify the clusters. The strength of this method is that it can be applied even to the mixture of continuous and discrete types of 'training data' and the performance of this algorithm is illustrated by applying it to the simulated data as well as to the actual data.

Progress Report : Quantifying and Classifying Peculiarity of Cluster Galaxies

  • Oh, Seulhee;Yi, Sukyoung K.;Sheen, Yun-Kyeong;Kyeong, Jaemann;Sung, Eon-Chang;Ho, Luis C.;Kim, Minjin;Park, Byeong-Gon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.42.1-42.1
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    • 2013
  • In the LCDM paradigm, hierarchical merging is thought to play a key role in the formation and evolution of massive galaxies. Theoretical and observational studies suggest that massive galaxies started forming at high redshifts and were assembled via numerous mergers. Galaxy clusters are the sites where the most massive galaxies are found and the most dramatic merger histories are embedded. The previous work of Sheen et al. (2012) identified via visual inspection many massive galaxies with merger features in clusters, which surprised the community. In this study we aim to quantify peculiarity of galaxies to pin down the merger frequency in cluster environments more objectively. We have performed optical deep imaging of 4 Abell clusters by using IMACS f/2 on a Magellan Badde 6.5-m telescope. For the galaxies in our data, we applied GALFIT algorithm, which fits analytic models to galaxy data, and we analyzed their residuals. We present the preliminary results of our sample galaxies.

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GT-PSO- An Approach For Energy Efficient Routing in WSN

  • Priyanka, R;Reddy, K. Satyanarayan
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 2022
  • Sensor Nodes play a major role to monitor and sense the variations in physical space in various real-time application scenarios. These nodes are powered by limited battery resources and replacing those resource is highly tedious task along with this it increases implementation cost. Thus, maintaining a good network lifespan is amongst the utmost important challenge in this field of WSN. Currently, energy efficient routing techniques are considered as promising solution to prolong the network lifespan where multi-hop communications are performed by identifying the most energy efficient path. However, the existing scheme suffer from performance related issues. To solve the issues of existing techniques, a novel hybrid technique by merging particle swarm optimization and game theory model is presented. The PSO helps to obtain the efficient number of cluster and Cluster Head selection whereas game theory aids in finding the best optimized path from source to destination by utilizing a path selection probability approach. This probability is obtained by using conditional probability to compute payoff for agents. When compared to current strategies, the experimental study demonstrates that the proposed GTPSO strategy outperforms them.

Multi-wavelength view of SPT-CL J2106-5844: A massive galaxy cluster merger at z~1.13

  • Kim, HyeongHan;Di Mascolo, Luca;Mroczkowski, Tony;Perrott, Yvette;Rudnick, Lawrence;Jee, M. James;Churazov, Eugene;Collier, Jordan D.;Diego, Jose M.;Hopkins, Andrew M.;Kim, Jinhyub;Koribalski, Barbel S.;Marvil, Joshua D.;van der Burg, Remco;West, Jennifer L.
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.34.2-34.2
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    • 2021
  • SPT-CL J2106-5844 is the most massive galaxy cluster at z>1 discovered to date. It has been known to be an isolated system with a singular, well-defined halo. However, recent studies provide lines of evidence for its merging state. We strengthen the case with the multi-wavelength observations from ALMA, ACA, ASKAP, ATCA, and Chandra. With the sensitive, high resolution ALMA+ACA observations, we reconstruct the ICM pressure map from the thermal SZ effect. It reveals two main gas components that are associated with the mass clumps inferred from the weak-lensing analysis. Furthermore, the X-ray hardness map supports the bimodal gas distribution. With these multi-wavelength data, we probe the merger phase in SPT-CL J2106-5844.

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Globular Clusters in the NGC 4839 Group Merging with Coma: What Do They Tell about the Group History?

  • O, Seong-A;Lee, Myung Gyoon
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.54.3-54.3
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    • 2021
  • The Coma cluster serves as an ideal laboratory to study the cluster assembly history. It is known as a typical example of relaxed galaxy clusters. However, recent X-ray, radio and optical observations revealed a number of substructures in Coma. The NGC 4839 group is an interesting substucture in the sense that it is overlappled with the X-ray bright component in the south-west region. Recent hydrodynamical simulations in the literature suggest that the NGC 4839 group came from the north-east direction of Coma, passed the apocenter about 1 Gyr ago, and started a second infall to the Coma core recently. Interestingly a number of E+A galaxies are located along the filament connecting the NGC 4839 group and the Coma core. We are surveying a wide area covering the NGC 4839 group to search for globular clusters and use them to investigate any connection between the globular clusters and the merger scenario of the NGC 4839 group. We utilized Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam archival images of two circular fields with diameter ~1.8 deg, covering the Coma core and the NGC 4839 group. We discuss the results with regard to the formation history of the NGC 4839 group.

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$M^2$ MAC: MAC protocol for Real Time Robot Control System based on Underwater Acoustic Communication ($M^2$ MAC(Message Merging): 수중음파통신 기반의 실시간 로봇 제어 시스템을 위한 MAC 프로토콜)

  • Kim, Yung-Pyo;Park, Soo-Hyun
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.48 no.6
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    • pp.88-96
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    • 2011
  • Underwater acoustic communication is applicable in various areas, such as ocean data collection, undersea exploration and development, tactical surveillance, etc. Thus, robot control system construction used for underwater-robot like AUV or ROV is essential in these areas. In this paper, we propose the Message Merging MAC($M^2$-MAC) protocol, which is suitable for real time robot control system, considering energy efficiency in important parts of underwater acoustic sensor network constitution. In this proposed MAC protocol, gateway node receives the data from robot nodes according to the time slots that were allotted previously. And messages delivered from base-station are generated to one MAC frame by buffering process. Finally, generated MAC frames are broadcasted to all robot nodes in the cluster. Our suggested MAC protocol can also be hybrid MAC protocol, which is successful blend of contention based and contention-free based protocol through relevant procedure with Maintenance&Sleep (M&S) period, when new nodes join and leave as an orphan. We propose mathematical analysis model concerned about End-to-End delay and energy consumption, which is important factor in constructing real-time robot control system. We also verify the excellence of performance according to comparison of existing MAC protocols with our scheme.