Véliz Astudillo, Simón
Chile Universidad de La Serena
Morphological Study of Galaxies in Clusters as Function of their Dynamical State
In the context of the standard cosmological model ΛCDM, massive galaxy clusters form hierarchically through merging and smooth accretion. The model predicts that numerous clusters of galaxies are in some stage of merging at any epoch. These processes are the most powerful events in the universe after the Big Bang, releasing energy at 10⁶⁴ erg/s, making them unique laboratories to study galaxy evolution. Under such conditions, galaxies may undergo violent processes that alter their physical properties and morphology. In this work, we present results on the characterization and estimation of the dynamical state of 12 clusters in the redshift range of 0.10 < z < 0.35. We study its influence on the morphology of their populations using parametric and non-parametric methods.