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At the Vigintennial of the Butcher–Oemler Effect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Kevin A. Pimbblet
Kevin A. Pimbblet*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. pimbblet@physics.uq.edu.au
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Abstract

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In their study of the evolution of galaxies within clusters, Butcher and Oemler discovered evidence for a strong evolution in star-formation rate with redshift. Later studies confirmed this conclusion and uncovered several aspects of the effect: photometric, spectroscopic, and morphological. This article reviews a broad sample of these works and discusses selection effects, biases, and driving mechanisms that might be responsible for the changes in star-formation rate.

Keywords

galaxies: evolutiongalaxies: clusters: generalcosmology: observations
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , 2003 , pp. 294 - 299
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2003

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