Fossil groups in the Millennium simulation. From the brightest to the faintest galaxies during the last 8 Gyr

KANAGUSUKU, MARÍA JOSÉ; DIAZ GIMENEZ, EUGENIA; ZANDIVAREZ, ARIEL

Córdoba

Congreso; VI Friends-of-Friends meeting; 2016

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In this work we investigate the evolution of bright and faint galaxies in fossil and non-fossil groups. We used a mock galaxies constructed on top of the Millennium Run Simulation II (Boylan-Kolchin et al. (2009)). We identified fossil groups at redshift zero according to two different selection criteria, and then built reliable control samples of non-fossil groups that reproduce the fossil virial mass and assembly time distributions. The faint galaxies were defined as having r-band absolute magnitudes in the range [-16,-11]. We analysed the properties of the bright and faint galaxies in fossil and non-fossil groups during the last 8 Gyr.