The Evolution of Galaxies in Clusters
Abstract
Contents: (1) Introduction. (2) The laboratory. (3) Mergers and tidal stripping: the evolution of cD galaxies: Criteria for identifying cD galaxies. Simulations of cluster evolution and cD models. Optical observations relevant to merging, accretion and tidal stripping. Summary. (4) The evolution of different morphological types: A basic description of galaxies. Three classes of models. (5) Looking forward to looking back: Galaxy color as a function of look-back time. Verifying and interpreting the Butcher-Oemler effect by spectroscopy.
- Publication:
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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev.astro.22.1.185
- Bibcode:
- 1984ARA&A..22..185D