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The optical colors of hidden spiral-like features in nine Virgo early--type dwarfs
Mauricio Gracia, Rory Smith, Anna Pasquali +5
Dwarf early-type galaxies (ETGs) are abundant in nearby clusters and provide a key laboratory for studying environmentally driven galaxy transformation. Although dwarf ETGs were on…
Distinguishing Ram Pressure from Tidal Interactions: the Size-Shape Difference (SSD) measure
Rory Smith, Stephanie Tonnesen, Katarina Kraljic +5
Context: In dense environments, disk galaxies can be subjected to tidal interactions with other galaxies and/or ram pressure stripping. Some morphological features are clearly asso…
Constraining the duration of ram pressure stripping features in the optical from the direction of jellyfish galaxy tails
Vicente Salinas, Yara L. Jaffé, Rory Smith +12
Ram pressure stripping is perhaps the most efficient mechanism for removing gas and quenching galaxies in dense environments as they move through the intergalactic medium. Extreme…
BCG alignment with the Locations of Cluster Members and the Large Scale Structure out to 10 R
Rory Smith, Ho Seong Hwang, Katarina Kraljic +8
Using a sample of clusters, each with typically spectroscopically confirmed cluster members, we search for a signal of alignment between the Position Angle (PA) of…
The First Fall is the Hardest: The Importance of Peculiar Galaxy Dynamics at Infall Time for Tidal Stripping Acting at the Centers of Groups and Clusters
Rory Smith, Paula Calderon-Castillo, Jihye Shin +2
Using dark matter only N-body cosmological simulations, we measure the pericentre distance of dark matter halos on their first infall into group and cluster halos. We find that the…
A New Method to Constrain the Appearance and Disappearance of Observed Jellyfish Galaxy Tails
Rory Smith, Jong-Ho Shinn, Stephanie Tonnesen +11
We present a new approach to observationally constrain where the tails of Jellyfish (JF) galaxies in groups and clusters first appear and how long they remain visible with respect…
Brought to Light III: Colors of Disk and Clump Substructures in Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies of the Fornax Cluster
Josefina Michea, Anna Pasquali, Rory Smith +3
It has been well established that dwarf early-type galaxies (ETGs) can often exhibit a complex morphology, whereby faint spiral arms, bars, edge-on disks or clumps are embedded in…
Brought to Light II: Revealing the Origins of Cloaked Spiral Features in Cluster Passive Dwarf Galaxies
Rory Smith, Josefina Michea, Anna Pasquali +8
In our companion paper (Brought to Light I: Michea et al. 2021), we reveal spectacular spiral galaxy-like features in deep optical imaging of nine Virgo early-type dwarf galaxies,…
Brought to Light I: Quantification of Disk Substructure in Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies
Josefina Michea, Anna Pasquali, Rory Smith +4
Dwarf early-type galaxies (ETGs) display a rich diversity in their photometric, structural, and dynamical properties. In this work, we address their structural complexity by studyi…
Investigating the Stellar Mass Growth Histories of Satellite Galaxies as a Function of Infall Time using Phase-Space
Rory Smith, Camilla Pacifici, Anna Pasquali +1
We compile a large sample of nearby galaxies that are satellites of hosts using a well known SDSS group catalogue. From this sample, we create an `ancient infallers' and `recent in…
A catalog of merging dwarf galaxies in the local universe
Sanjaya Paudel, Rory Smith, Suk Jin Yoo +2
We present the largest publicly available catalog of interacting dwarf galaxies. It includes 177 nearby merging dwarf galaxies of stellar mass M 10M$_{\sun}$ and r…