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Coma Cluster Treasury Survey

Publications

Papers using HST data

  1. "The Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys Coma Cluster Survey. I. Survey Objectives and Design"
    Carter et al. 2008, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol.176, p.424
    [astro-ph] [ApJS Paper]

    "We describe the HST ACS Coma cluster Treasury survey, a deep two-passband imaging survey of one of the nearest rich clusters of galaxies, the Coma cluster (Abell 1656)..."


Papers using ancillary data from the Contributing Telescopes

  1. "The Remarkable 60x2 kpc Optical Filament Associated with a Poststarburst Galaxy in the Coma Cluster"
    Yagi et al. 2007, The Astrophysical Journal, vol.660, p.1209
    [astro-ph] [ApJ Paper] (See image number 9 in the Image Gallery.)

    "In the deep narrowband image of the Coma Cluster taken with Suprime-Cam of the Subaru Telescope, we found an extremely long and narrow ( kpc) H-emitting region associated with a poststarburst galaxy (D100)..."

  2. "Strange filamentary structures ("fireballs") around a merger galaxy in the Coma cluster of galaxies"
    Yoshida et al. 2008, The Astrophysical Journal, submitted
    [astro-ph] [ApJ Paper]

    "We found an unusual complex of narrow blue filaments, bright blue knots, and Hα emitting filaments and clouds, which morphologically resembled a complex of ``fireballs,'' extending up to 80 kpc south from an E+A galaxy RB199 in the Coma cluster..."

  3. "Uncovering the Near-IR Dwarf Galaxy Population of the Coma Cluster with Spitzer IRAC"
    Jenkins et al. 2007, The Astrophysical Journal, vol.666, p.846
    [astro-ph] [ApJ Paper]

    "We present the first results of a Spitzer IRAC (Infrared Array Camera) wide-field survey of two regions of the Coma Cluster..."

  4. "A large population of recently quenched red-sequence dwarf galaxies in the outskirts of the Coma cluster"
    Smith et al. 2008, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, vol.386, pp.L96
    [astro-ph] [MNRAS Paper]

    "We analyse the stellar populations of 75 red-sequence dwarf galaxies in the Coma cluster, based on high signal-to-noise ratio spectroscopy from the 6.5-m MMT..."

  5. "A spectroscopic survey of dwarf galaxies in the Coma Cluster: Stellar populations, environment and downsizing"
    Smith et al. 2008, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press
    [astro-ph]

    "We investigate the stellar populations in a sample of 89 faint (M*+2 to M*+4) red galaxies in the Coma cluster, using high S/N spectroscopy from the MMT..."