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most citedIntracluster light is already abundant at redshift beyond unity

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11 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

TNGC-SIDM I: Evolution of massive cluster mergers under the self-interacting dark matter paradigm

Wonki Lee, Dylan Nelson, Myungkook J. Jee +8

Merging galaxy clusters provide an ideal laboratory for testing the self-interacting nature of dark matter. In this paper, we present a pilot study of magnetohydrodynamical cosmolo…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

Baryonic mass budgets in the central regions of the Bullet Cluster and their consistency with strong lensing in MOND

Dong Zhang, Hosein Haghi, Elena Asencio +8

Strong lensing observations of the Bullet Cluster have traditionally been regarded as strong evidence for dark matter and a major challenge to Milgromian dynamics (MOND). The offse…

astro-ph.GA2026

Mature but Still Growing: JWST Detection of the Earliest Intracluster Light at z ~ 2

Hyungjin Joo, M. James Jee, Kyle Finner +6

We present a JWST analysis of intracluster light (ICL) in XLSSC 122 at z = 1.98, currently the most distant known strong lensing galaxy cluster with an evolved member population. U…

astro-ph.GA2025

An Active Galaxy Cluster Merger at Cosmic Noon Revealed by JWST Weak Lensing and Multiwavelength Probes

Zachary P. Scofield, Kyle Finner, Hyungjin Joo +8

The galaxy cluster XLSSC~122 is a rare system at , hosting surprisingly evolved member galaxies when the Universe was only one-third of its present age. Leveraging deep J…

astro-ph.GA2025

Joint JWST-DECam Lensing Reveals That the Bullet Cluster Is a Minor Merger

Boseong Young Cho, M. James Jee, Hyungjin Joo +2

We present the first robust virial masses of the Bullet Cluster's three individual components from a joint weak+strong lensing analysis combining JWST/NIRCam and DECam observations…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

JWST Discovery of Strong Lensing from a Galaxy Cluster at Cosmic Noon: Giant Arcs and a Highly Concentrated Core of XLSSC 122

Kyle Finner, Sangjun Cha, Zachary P. Scofield +9

Our observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have made the remarkable discovery of strong gravitational lensing arcs from XLSSC 122 () - setting the record for the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 18 cited

A High-Caliber View of the Bullet Cluster Through JWST Strong and Weak Lensing Analyses

Sangjun Cha, Boseong Young Cho, Hyungjin Joo +5

The Bullet Cluster (1E 0657-56) is a key astrophysical laboratory for studying dark matter, galaxy cluster mergers, and shock propagation in extreme environments. Using new JWST im…

astro-ph.GA2024

Tracing the Formation History of Intrahalo Light with Horizon Run 5

Hyungjin Joo, M. James Jee, Juhan Kim +8

We investigate the formation history of intrahalo light (IHL) using the high-resolution (~1 kpc), large-scale (~Gpc) cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, Horizon Run 5 (HR5). IH…

astro-ph.CO2024

Substructures within Substructures in the Complex Post-Merging System A514 Unveiled by High-Resolution Magellan/Megacam Weak Lensing

Eunmo Ahn, M. James Jee, Wonki Lee +2

Abell 514 (A514) at is an intriguing merging system exhibiting highly elongated (~1 Mpc) X-ray features and three large-scale (300~500 kpc) bent radio jets. To dissect th…

astro-ph.GA2023

Precision MARS Mass Reconstruction of Abell 2744: Synergizing the Largest Strong Lensing and Densest Weak Lensing Datasets from JWST

Sangjun Cha, Kim HyeongHan, Zachary P. Scofield +2

We present a new high-resolution free-form mass model of Abell 2744, combining both weak-lensing (WL) and strong-lensing (SL) datasets from JWST. The SL dataset comprises 286 multi…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 40 cited

Intracluster light is already abundant at redshift beyond unity

Hyungjin Joo, Myungkook James Jee

Intracluster light (ICL) is diffuse light from stars that are gravitationally bound not to individual member galaxies, but to the halo of galaxy clusters. Leading theories predict…