Pinning down the ram-pressure-induced halt of star formation in the Virgo cluster spiral galaxy NGC 4388. A joint inversion of spectroscopic and photometric data

C. Pappalardo, A. Lancon, B. Vollmer +3

In a galaxy cluster, the evolution of spiral galaxies depends on their cluster environment. Ram pressure due to the rapid motion of a spiral galaxy within the hot intracluster medi…