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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 2(621), p. 651-662, 2005

DOI: 10.1086/427549

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The Transformation of Cluster Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift

This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

We combine imaging data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) with VLT/FORS optical spectroscopy to study the properties of star-forming galaxies in the z = 0.837 cluster Cl 0152-1357. We have morphological information for 24 star-forming cluster galaxies, which range in morphology from late-type and irregular to compact early-type galaxies. We find that while most star-forming galaxies have r625 - i775 colors bluer than 1.0, eight are in the red cluster sequence. Among the star-forming cluster population, we find five compact early-type galaxies that have properties consistent with their identification as progenitors of dwarf elliptical galaxies. The spatial distribution of the star-forming cluster members is nonuniform. We find none within R ~ 500 Mpc of the cluster center, which is highly suggestive of an intracluster medium interaction. We derive star formation rates from [O II] λ3727 line fluxes and use these to compare the global star formation rate of Cl 0152-1357 to other clusters at low and intermediate redshifts. We find a tentative correlation between integrated star formation rates and TX, in the sense that hotter clusters have lower integrated star formation rates. Additional data from clusters with low X-ray temperatures are needed to confirm this trend. We do not find a significant correlation with redshift, suggesting that evolution is either weak or absent between z = 0.2 and 0.8.