Professor NINA HATCH's Outputs (71)

Insights into environmental quenching at z ∼ 1: an enhancement of faint, low-mass passive galaxies in clusters (2025)
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Gully, H., Hatch, N., Ahad, S. L., Bahé, Y., Balogh, M., Baxter, D. C., Cerulo, P., Cooper, M. C., Demarco, R., Forrest, B., Rescigno, U., Rudnick, G., Vulcani, B., & Wilson, G. (2025). Insights into environmental quenching at z ∼ 1: an enhancement of faint, low-mass passive galaxies in clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Article staf635. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf635

Understanding the processes that transform star-forming galaxies into quiescent ones is key to unraveling the role of environment in galaxy evolution. We present measurements of the luminosity functions (LFs) and stellar mass functions (SMFs) of pass... Read More about Insights into environmental quenching at z ∼ 1: an enhancement of faint, low-mass passive galaxies in clusters.

Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters (2025)
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Butler, J., Martin, G., Hatch, N., Pearce, F., Brough, S., & Dubois, Y. (2025). Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Article staf615. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf615

The diffuse stellar component of galaxy clusters known as intracluster light (ICL) has been proposed as an observable tracer of the cluster’s dark matter (DM) halo. Assessing its reliability as a DM tracer requires understanding how the intracluster... Read More about Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters.

Euclid preparation. LXX. Forecasting detection limits for intracluster light in the Euclid Wide Survey (2025)
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Euclid Collaboration, Bellhouse, C., Golden-Marx, J., Bamford, S., Hatch, N., Kluge, M., Ellien, A., Ahad, S., Dimauro, P., Durret, F., Gonzalez, A., Jimenez-Teja, Y., Montes, M., Sereno, M., Slezak, E., Bolzonella, M., Castignani, G., Cucciati, O., De Lucia, G., Ghaffari, Z., …Walton, N. (in press). Euclid preparation. LXX. Forecasting detection limits for intracluster light in the Euclid Wide Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202553887

The intracluster light (ICL) permeating galaxy clusters is a tracer of the cluster assembly history and potentially a tracer of their dark matter structure. In this work, we explore the capability of the Euclid Wide Survey to detect ICL using HE-band... Read More about Euclid preparation. LXX. Forecasting detection limits for intracluster light in the Euclid Wide Survey.

Measuring the Intracluster Light Fraction with Machine Learning (2025)
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Canepa, L., Brough, S., Lanusse, F., Montes, M., & Hatch, N. (2025). Measuring the Intracluster Light Fraction with Machine Learning. Astrophysical Journal, 980(2), Article 245. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adabc7

The intracluster light (ICL) is an important tracer of a galaxy cluster's history and past interactions. However, only small samples have been studied to date due to its very low surface brightness and the heavy manual involvement required for the ma... Read More about Measuring the Intracluster Light Fraction with Machine Learning.

COALAS III: The ATCA CO(1-0) look at the growth and death of Hα emitters in the Spiderweb protocluster at z=2.16 (2025)
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Pérez-Martínez, J., Dannerbauer, H., Emonts, B., Allison, J., Champagne, J., Indermuehle, B., Norris, R., Serra, P., Seymour, N., Thomson, A., Casey, C., Chen, Z., Daikuhara, K., De Breuck, C., D’Eugenio, C., Drouart, G., Hatch, N., Jin, S., Kodama, T., Koyama, Y., …Ziegler, B. (in press). COALAS III: The ATCA CO(1-0) look at the growth and death of Hα emitters in the Spiderweb protocluster at z=2.16. Astronomy and Astrophysics,

We obtain CO(1-0) molecular gas measurements with the Australia Telescope Compact Array on a sample of 43 spectroscopically confirmed Hα emitters in the Spiderweb protocluster at z = 2.16 and investigate the relation between their star formation acti... Read More about COALAS III: The ATCA CO(1-0) look at the growth and death of Hα emitters in the Spiderweb protocluster at z=2.16.

Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey (2025)
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Euclid Collaboration, Böhringer, H., Chon, G., Cucciati, O., Dannerbauer, H., Bolzonella, M., De Lucia, G., Cappi, A., Moscardini, L., Giocoli, C., Castignani, G., Hatch, N. A., Andreon, S., Bañados, E., Ettori, S., Fontanot, F., Gully, H., Hirschmann, M., Maturi, M., Mei, S., …Verza, G. (2025). Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, Article A59. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451683

Galaxy proto-clusters are receiving increased interest since most of the processes shaping the structure of clusters of galaxies and their galaxy population happen at the early stages of their formation. The Euclid Survey will provide a unique opport... Read More about Euclid preparation: LV. Exploring the properties of proto-clusters in the Simulated Euclid Wide Survey.

Spectroscopic confirmation of the galaxy clusters CARLA J0950+2743 at z = 2.363 and CARLA-Ser J0950+2743 at z = 2.243 (2024)
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Grishin, K. A., Mei, S., Chilingarian, I. V., Lepore, M., Tozzi, P., Gonzalez, A., Hatch, N., Stanford, S. A., & Wylezalek, D. (2025). Spectroscopic confirmation of the galaxy clusters CARLA J0950+2743 at z = 2.363 and CARLA-Ser J0950+2743 at z = 2.243. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 693, 11. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452091

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe and therefore are a powerful tool for studying mass assembly at different epochs. At z > 2, they provide the unique opportunity to place solid constraints not only on th... Read More about Spectroscopic confirmation of the galaxy clusters CARLA J0950+2743 at z = 2.363 and CARLA-Ser J0950+2743 at z = 2.243.

WEAVE First Light Observations: Origin and Dynamics of the Shock Front in Stephan’s Quintet (2024)
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Arnaudova, M. I., Das, S., Smith, D. J., Hardcastle, M. J., Hatch, N., Trager, S. C., Smith, R. J., Drake, A. B., McGarry, J. C., Shenoy, S., Stott, J. P., Knapen, J. H., Hess, K. M., Duncan, K. J., Gloudemans, A., Best, P. N., García-Benito, R., Kondapally, R., Balcells, M., Couto, G. S., …Worley, C. C. (2024). WEAVE First Light Observations: Origin and Dynamics of the Shock Front in Stephan’s Quintet. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535(3), 2269-2290. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2235

We present a detailed study of the large-scale shock front in Stephan’s Quintet, a by-product of past and ongoing interactions. Using integral-field spectroscopy from the new William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), recent... Read More about WEAVE First Light Observations: Origin and Dynamics of the Shock Front in Stephan’s Quintet.

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- The intracluster light and intracluster globular clusters of the Perseus cluster (2024)
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Kluge, M., Hatch, N. A., Montes, M., Golden-Marx, J. B., Gonzalez, A. H., Cuillandre, J.-C., Bolzonella, M., Lançon, A., Laureijs, R., Saifollahi, T., Schirmer, M., Stone, C., Boselli, A., Cantiello, M., Sorce, J., Marleau, F., Duc, P.-A., Sola, E., Urbano, M., Ahad, S., …Scott, D. (in press). Euclid: Early Release Observations -- The intracluster light and intracluster globular clusters of the Perseus cluster. Astronomy and Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450772

We study the intracluster light (ICL) and intracluster globular clusters (ICGCs) in the nearby Perseus cluster of galaxies using Euclid's Early Release Observations. By modelling the isophotal and iso-density contours, we mapped the distributions and... Read More about Euclid: Early Release Observations -- The intracluster light and intracluster globular clusters of the Perseus cluster.

Stellar stripping efficiencies of satellites in numerical simulations: the effect of resolution, satellite properties, and numerical disruption (2024)
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Martin, G., Pearce, F. R., Hatch, N. A., Contreras-Santos, A., Knebe, A., & Cui, W. (2024). Stellar stripping efficiencies of satellites in numerical simulations: the effect of resolution, satellite properties, and numerical disruption. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535(3), 2375–2393. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2488

The stellar stripping of satellites in cluster haloes is understood to play an important role in the production of intracluster light. Increasingly, cosmological simulations have been utilized to investigate its origin and assembly. However, such sim... Read More about Stellar stripping efficiencies of satellites in numerical simulations: the effect of resolution, satellite properties, and numerical disruption.

From outskirts to core: the suppression and activation of radio AGN around galaxy clusters (2024)
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de Vos, K., Hatch, N. A., & Merrifield, M. R. (2024). From outskirts to core: the suppression and activation of radio AGN around galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535(1), 217–222. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2391

To investigate how the radio-identified active galactic nuclei (AGN) fraction varies with cluster-centric radius, we present the projected and de-projected distributions of a large sample of Low-Frequency Array-identified radio AGN out to around gala... Read More about From outskirts to core: the suppression and activation of radio AGN around galaxy clusters.

Assembly of the intracluster light in the Horizon-AGN simulation (2024)
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Brown, H. J., Martin, G., Pearce, F. R., Hatch, N. A., Bahé, Y. M., & Dubois, Y. (2024). Assembly of the intracluster light in the Horizon-AGN simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534(1), 431-443. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2084

The diffuse stellar component of galaxy clusters made up of intergalactic stars is termed the intracluster light (ICL). Although there is a developing understanding of the mechanisms by which the ICL is formed, no strong consensus has yet been reache... Read More about Assembly of the intracluster light in the Horizon-AGN simulation.

Local versus global environment: the suppression of star formation in the vicinity of galaxy clusters (2024)
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De Vos, K., Merrifield, M. R., & Hatch, N. A. (2024). Local versus global environment: the suppression of star formation in the vicinity of galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(4), 4383–4390. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1403

In order to examine where, how and why the quenching of star formation begins in the outskirts of galaxy clusters, we investigate the de-projected radial distribution of a large sample of quenched and star-forming galaxies (SFGs) out to 30R500 around... Read More about Local versus global environment: the suppression of star formation in the vicinity of galaxy clusters.

Local versus global environment: The suppression of star formation in the vicinity of galaxy clusters (2024)
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de Vos, K., Merrifield, M. R., & Hatch, N. A. (2024). Local versus global environment: The suppression of star formation in the vicinity of galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(4), 4383–4390. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1403

In order to examine where, how and why the quenching of star formation begins in the outskirts of galaxy clusters, we investigate the de-projected radial distribution of a large sample of quenched and star-forming galaxies (SFGs) out to 30R500 around... Read More about Local versus global environment: The suppression of star formation in the vicinity of galaxy clusters.

New insights into the role of AGNs in forming the cluster red sequence (2024)
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Shimakawa, R., Pérez-Martínez, J. M., Koyama, Y., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, I., Kodama, T., Hatch, N. A., Röttgering, H. J., Dannerbauer, H., & Kurk, J. D. (2024). New insights into the role of AGNs in forming the cluster red sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(2), 3679–3695. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae118

As a considerable investment of time from various telescope facilities was dedicated toward studying the Spiderweb protocluster at z = 2.2, it so far remains one of the most extensively studied protocluster. We report here the latest results in this... Read More about New insights into the role of AGNs in forming the cluster red sequence.

Spitzer-selected z > 1.3 protocluster candidates in the LSST deep-drilling fields (2023)
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Gully, H., Hatch, N., Bahé, Y., Balogh, M., Bolzonella, M., Cooper, M. C., Muzzin, A., Pozzetti, L., Rudnick, G., Vulcani, B., & Wilson, G. (2023). Spitzer-selected z > 1.3 protocluster candidates in the LSST deep-drilling fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(4), 10680-10696. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3885

We have identified 189 candidate z > 1.3 protoclusters and clusters in the LSST Deep Drilling Fields. This sample will enable the measurement of the metal enrichment and star formation history of clusters during their early assembly period through th... Read More about Spitzer-selected z > 1.3 protocluster candidates in the LSST deep-drilling fields.

The stellar mass function of quiescent galaxies in 2 < z < 2.5 protoclusters (2023)
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Edward, A. H., Balogh, M. L., Bahé, Y. M., Cooper, M. C., Hatch, N. A., Marchioni, J., Muzzin, A., Noble, A., Rudnick, G. H., Vulcani, B., Wilson, G., De Lucia, G., Demarco, R., Forrest, B., Hirschmann, M., Castignani, G., Cerulo, P., Finn, R. A., Hewitt, G., Jablonka, P., …Xie, L. (2024). The stellar mass function of quiescent galaxies in 2 < z < 2.5 protoclusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 8598–8617. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3751

We present an analysis of the galaxy stellar mass function (SMF) of 14 known protoclusters between 2.0 < z < 2.5 in the COSMOS field, down to a mass limit of 10 9.5 M⊙. We use existing photometric redshifts with a statistical background subtraction,... Read More about The stellar mass function of quiescent galaxies in 2 < z < 2.5 protoclusters.

COALAS II. Extended molecular gas reservoirs are common in a distant, forming galaxy cluster (2023)
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Chen, Z., Dannerbauer, H., Lehnert, M., Emonts, B. H. C., Gu, Q., Allison, J. R., Champagne, J. B., Hatch, N., Indermüehle, B., Norris, R. P., Pérez-Martínez, J. M., Röttgering, H. J. A., Serra, P., Seymour, N., Shimakawa, R., Thomson, A., Casey, C. M., De Breuck, C., Drouart, G., Kodama, T., …Ziegler, B. (2024). COALAS II. Extended molecular gas reservoirs are common in a distant, forming galaxy cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(3), 8950–8972. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3128

This paper presents the results of 475 hours of interferometric observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array towards the Spiderweb protocluster at (z=2.16). We search for large, extended molecular gas reservoirs among 46 previously detecte... Read More about COALAS II. Extended molecular gas reservoirs are common in a distant, forming galaxy cluster.

Roman-Cosmic Noon: A Legacy Spectroscopic Survey of Massive Field and Protocluster Galaxies at 2 < z < 3 (2023)
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Gregory, R., Yannick, B., Michael, B., Mike, C., Nina, H., Benedetta, V., Gillian, W., Gianluca, C., Pierluigi, C., Lucia, Gabriella, D., Ricardo, D., Benjamin, F., & Pascale, J. (2023). Roman-Cosmic Noon: A Legacy Spectroscopic Survey of Massive Field and Protocluster Galaxies at 2 < z < 3

Protoclusters are the densest regions in the distant universe (z>2) and are the progenitors of massive galaxy clusters (Mhalo>1014M⊙) in the local universe. They undoubtedly play a key role in early massive galaxy evolution and they may host the earl... Read More about Roman-Cosmic Noon: A Legacy Spectroscopic Survey of Massive Field and Protocluster Galaxies at 2 < z < 3.

Intracluster light in the core of z ∼ 2 galaxy proto-clusters (2023)
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Werner, S. V., Hatch, N. A., Matharu, J., Gonzalez, A. H., Bahé, Y. M., Mei, S., Noirot, G., & Wylezalek, D. (2023). Intracluster light in the core of z ∼ 2 galaxy proto-clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523(1), 91-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1410

Intracluster light is thought to originate from stars that were ripped away from their parent galaxies by gravitational tides and galaxy interactions during the build up of the cluster. The stars from such interactions will accumulate over time, so s... Read More about Intracluster light in the core of z ∼ 2 galaxy proto-clusters.