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most citedSpectroscopic Confirmation of a Protocluster at with a High Fraction of Quiescent Galaxies

96 citations · 273 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Surveying the Universe in 4D: Beating Cosmic Variance with Wide-Field Slitless Spectroscopy from HST, JWST, Euclid, Roman, and Beyond

Andreea Petric, Gaël Noirot, Stacey Alberts +71

We summarize strategies, lessons learned, and future directions from the Space Telescope Science Institute workshop Surveying the Universe in 4D: Beating Cosmic Variance with Wide-…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GOGREEN Survey: AI Powered Deconvolution Lifts The Veil on Outside-in Environmental Quenching at z > 1

Aurelien Henry, Gillian Wilson, Gregory Rudnick +10

A powerful probe of the physical processes that quench star formation in dense environments is determining where within galaxies star formation is suppressed. At high redshift, the…

astro-ph.GA2026

From Cluster Cores to the Low-Density Field: Strong Environmental Quenching of Galaxy Star Formation at Low Redshift

Mohamed H. Abdullah, A. E. Abdelaziz, Gillian Wilson +3

We investigate how galaxy star formation activity depends on environment using a sample of 81,647 SDSS galaxies selected over and $9.7\leq\log_{10}(M_\star/h^…

astro-ph.GA2026

From Cluster Core to Splashback: Linking Dynamical Structure to Multidimensional Galaxy Evolution in the Coma Cluster

Mohamed H. Abdullah, S. W. El-Sogheir, Gillian Wilson +2

We investigate galaxy evolution across the full dynamical structure of the Coma cluster using the GalWCat19 spectroscopic cluster catalog combined with SDSS-based value-added galax…

astro-ph.GA2026

LoVoCCS. III. Third Generation Pipeline & The Hercules Supercluster

Anthony M. Englert, Shenming Fu, Ian Dell'Antonio +29

The Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS) is a volume-complete survey of over one-hundred nearby (), X-ray luminous ($L_{500} > 10^{44} \text{ erg s}^{-1}…

astro-ph.CO2026

Inferring Halo Mass and Scale Radius of Galaxy Clusters Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Uchuu-UniverseMachine Catalogs

Hirobumi Tominaga, Asuka Nakamura, Tomoaki Ishiyama +1

We investigate the ability of machine learning to infer the virial mass () and the scale radius () of galaxy clusters from their observables. Using the Uchu…

astro-ph.GA2026

Hidden Connections: Tracing the BCG Stellar Mass-Halo Mass Relation in the SDSS-GalWCat19 Cluster Catalog

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Rasha M. Samir, Nouran E. Abdelhamid +5

The stellar-to-halo mass (SMHM) relation of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) provides key insight into the connection between BCG growth and the assembly of their host halos. We a…

astro-ph.CO2025

Galaxy Cluster Detection and Dynamical Analysis in the VIPERS High-Redshift Spectroscopic Survey

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Omnia I. Adly, Gillian Wilson +2

We present a dynamical analysis of galaxy clusters identified in the VIPERS spectroscopic survey within the redshift range 0.5 <= z <= 1.2. Cluster candidates were first detected a…

astro-ph.GA2025

From the Densest Clusters to the Emptiest Voids: No Evidence For Environmental Effects on the Galaxy Size-Mass Relation at Low Redshift

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Nouran E. Abdelhamid, Rasha M. Samir +1

We present a comprehensive study of the galaxy size-stellar mass relation (SMR) at low redshift (z <= 0.125), using a large spectroscopic sample from the SDSS-DR13 survey. Our goal…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dynamical Properties and Velocity Dispersion-Mass Relation of Galaxy Clusters from the GOGREEN and GCLASS Surveys

Shrouk Abdulshafy, Mohamed H. Abdullah, Gillian Wilson +2

We investigate a sample of 14 galaxy clusters from the GOGREEN and GCLASS (GG) spectroscopic datasets within the redshift range and cluster masses $\mathr…

astro-ph.CO2025

Quantifying the Velocity Anisotropy Profile of Galaxy Clusters Using the Uchuu Cosmological Simulation

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Raouf H. Mabrouk, Tomoaki Ishiyama +2

Galaxy clusters are powerful laboratories for studying both cosmic structure formation and galaxy evolution. We present a comprehensive analysis of the velocity anisotropy profile,…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

The Correlation Function and Detection of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Peak from the Spectroscopic SDSS GalWCat Galaxy Cluster Catalogue

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Anatoly Klypin, Francisco Prada +3

We measure the two point correlation function (CF) of 1357 galaxy clusters with a mass of ~\hm~and at a redshift of . This work differs f…

astro-ph.CO2023

The Cluster Mass Function and the -tension

Alexandros Papageorgiou, Manolis Plionis, Spyros Basilakos +1

We use a large set of halo mass function (HMF) models in order to investigate their ability to represent the observational Cluster Mass Function (CMF), derived from the $\mathtt{Ga…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 11 cited

Constraining Cosmological Parameters using the Cluster Mass-Richness Relation

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Gillian Wilson, Anatoly Klypin +1

The cluster mass-richness relation (MRR) is an observationally efficient and potentially powerful cosmological tool for constraining the mean matter density of the universe and the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 23 cited

The Uchuu-UniverseMachine dataset: Galaxies in and around Clusters

Han Aung, Daisuke Nagai, Anatoly Klypin +7

We present the public data release of the Uchuu-UM galaxy catalogues by applying the UniverseMachine algorithm to assign galaxies to the dark matter halos in the Uchuu -body cos…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

The Uchuu-SDSS galaxy lightcones: a clustering, RSD and BAO study

C. A. Dong-Páez, A. Smith, A. O. Szewciw +11

We present the data release of the Uchuu-SDSS galaxies: a set of 32 high-fidelity galaxy lightcones constructed from the large Uchuu 2.1 trillion particle -body simulation using…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 96 cited

Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Protocluster at with a High Fraction of Quiescent Galaxies

Ian McConachie, Gillian Wilson, Ben Forrest +10

We report the discovery of MAGAZ3NE J095924+022537, a spectroscopically-confirmed protocluster at around a spectroscopically-confirmed -quiesc…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 52 cited

Cosmological Constraint on and from Cluster Abundances using the Optical-Spectroscopic SDSS Catalog

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Anatoly Klypin, Gillian Wilson

We derive cosmological constraints on the matter density, \om, and the amplitude of fluctuations, \sig, using , a catalog of 1800 galaxy clusters we identified…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

The Rest-frame -band Luminosity Function of Red Sequence Galaxies in Clusters at

Jeffrey C. C. Chan, Gillian Wilson, Gregory Rudnick +22

We present results on the rest-frame -band luminosity functions (LF) of red sequence galaxies in seven clusters at 1.0 < z < 1.3 from the Gemini Observations of Galaxies in Rich…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 24 cited

GalWeight Application: A publicly-available catalog of dynamical parameters of 1,800 galaxy clusters from SDSS-DR13, ()

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Gillian Wilson, Anatoly Klypin +3

Utilizing the SDSS-DR13 spectroscopic dataset, we create a new publicly-available catalog of 1,800 galaxy clusters (GalWeight cluster catalog, ) and a correspon…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 21 cited

GalWeight: A New and Effective Weighting Technique for Determining Galaxy Cluster and Group Membership

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Gillian Wilson, Anatoly Klypin

We introduce GalWeight, a new technique for assigning galaxy cluster membership. This technique is specifically designed to simultaneously maximize the number of bona fide cluster…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 9 cited

Distortion of Infall Regions in Redshift Space-I

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Elizabeth A. Praton, Gamal B. Ali

We show that spherical infall models (SIMs) can better describe some galaxy clusters in redshift slice space than in traditional axially-convolved projection space. This is because…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 20 cited

Studying the Dynamical Properties of 20 Nearby Galaxy Clusters

Mohamed H. Abdullah, Gamal B. Ali, H. A. Ismail +1

Using SDSS-DR7, we construct a sample of 42382 galaxies with redshifts in the region of 20 galaxy clusters. Using two successive iterative methods, the adaptive kernel method and t…