most citedThe XXL survey XV: Evidence for dry merger driven BCG growth in XXL-100-GC X-ray clusters

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The XXL survey XV: Evidence for dry merger driven BCG growth in XXL-100-GC X-ray clusters

S. Lavoie, J. P. Willis, J. Democles +33

The growth of brightest cluster galaxies is closely related to the properties of their host cluster. We present evidence for dry mergers as the dominant source of BCG mass growth a…