The evolution in the stellar mass of brightest cluster galaxies over the past 10 billion years

Authors

Sabine Bellstedt, University of Wollongong, Swinburne University
Christopher E. Lidman, University of Wollongong
Adam Muzzin, University of Cambridge
Marijn Franx, Leiden University
Susanna Guatelli, University of WollongongFollow
Allison R. Hill, Leiden University
Henk Hoekstra, Leiden University
Noah Kurinsky, Stanford University, Tufts University
Ivo Labbe, Leiden University
Danilo Marchesini, Tufts University
Z. Cemile Marsan, Tufts University
Mitra Safavi-Naeini, University of WollongongFollow
Cristobal Sifon, Leiden University
Mauro Stefanon, Leiden University
Jesse van de Sande, University of Sydney
Pieter van Dokkum, Yale University
Catherine Weigel, Tufts University

RIS ID

109316

Publication Details

Bellstedt, S., Lidman, C., Muzzin, A., Franx, M., Guatelli, S., Hill, A. R., Hoekstra, H., Kurinsky, N., Labbe, I., Marchesini, D., Marsan, Z. Cemile., Safavi-Naeini, M., Sifon, C., Stefanon, M., Van De Sande, J., Van Dokkum, P. & Weigel, C. (2016). The evolution in the stellar mass of brightest cluster galaxies over the past 10 billion years. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460 (3), 2862-2874.

Abstract

Using a sample of 98 galaxy clusters recently imaged in the near-infrared with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) New Technology Telescope, WIYN telescope and William Her- schel Telescope, supplemented with 33 clusters from the ESO archive, we measure how the stellar mass of the most massive galaxies in the universe, namely brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), increases with time. Most of the BCGs in this new sample lie in the redshift range 0.2