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Pérez Martínez, Ricardo; Sánchez Portal, Miguel; Cepa, Jordi; Bongiovanni, Ángel; Pérez García, Ana
Bibliographical reference
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics V, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. ISBN 978-3-642-11249-2. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, p. 339
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Description
The studies of the evolution of galaxies in Galaxy Clusters have as a
traditional complication the difficulty in establishing cluster
membership of those sources detected in the field of view. The
determination of spectroscopic redshifts involves long exposure times
when it is needed to reach the cluster peripheral regions of/or clusters
at moderately large redshifts, while photometric redshifts often present
uncertainties too large to offer significant conclusions. The mapping of
the cluster of galaxies with narrow band tunable filters makes it
possible to reach large z intervals with an accuracy high enough to
establish the source membership of those presenting emission/absorption
lines easily identifiable, as Hα. Moreover, the
wavelength scan can include other lines as NII, OIII or
Hβ, allowing to distinguish those sources with strong
stellar formation activity and those with an active galactic nucleus.
All this makes it possible to estimate the stellar formation rate of the
galaxies observed. This, together with ancillary data in other
wavelengths, may lead to a good estimation of the stellar formation
histories. It will shed new light over the galaxy evolution in clusters
and will improve our understanding of galaxy evolution, especially in
the outer cluster regions, usually less studied and with significant
unexploited data that can not be correctly interpreted without redshift
determination.