Abstract

Abstract Galaxy clusters are extremely over dense regions of the universe and are therefore ideal for testing how galaxy properties vary with environment. We analyze a sample of >3000 galaxy spectra from 100 galaxy cluster fields, and examine trends in redshift, Dn4000, and a formulated in-fall proxy for member and non-member galaxies. The 4000 Å break (Dn4000) reveals information about the age of each galaxy, and the product of the normalized peculiar velocity and the normalized projected radius of each cluster galaxy serves as a proxy for in-fall time, or how recently each galaxy became gravitationally bound to its cluster. We see a relationship between Dn4000 and the in-fall proxy, with more recently in-fallen galaxies being systematically younger; we interpret this trend as the effect of environmental quenching of cluster galaxies. Furthermore, we see a trend in which all cluster galaxies become older with decreasing redshift, independent of in-fall proxy.

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