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[OIII] lambda 5007AA emission lines of 16 intracluster planetary nebulae candidates in the Coma cluster were detected with a Multi-Slit Imaging Spectroscopy (MSIS) technique using FOCAS on the Subaru telescope. The identification of these faint emission sources as PNe is supported by (i) their point-like flux distribution in both space and wavelength, with tight limits on the continuum flux; (ii) the identification of the second [OIII] lambda 4959 line in the only object at high enough velocity that this line too falls into the filter bandpass; (iii) emission line fluxes consistent with PNe at 100 Mpc distance, in the range 2.8 x 10^{-19} - 1.7 x 10^{-18} erg/s/cm^2; and (iv) a narrow velocity distribution approximately centered on the systemic velocity of the Coma cluster. Comparing with the velocities of galaxies in our field, we conclude that the great majority of these candidates would be intracluster PNe, free floating in the Coma cluster core. Their velocity dispersion is ~760 km/s, and their mean velocity is lower than that of the galaxies. The velocity distribution suggests that the intracluster stellar population has different dynamics from the galaxies in the Coma cluster core.
We briefly describe the properties of the confirmed spectroscopic sample of intracluster planetary nebulae recently discovered in the Virgo cluster. We find 23 bonafide intracluster planetary nebulae and 8 high redshift (z ~ 3.1) Lyalpha emitters identified by their broad asymmetric emission line.
The Coma cluster is the richest and most compact of the nearby clusters, yet there is growing evidence that its formation is still on-going. With a new multi-slit imaging spectroscopy technique pioneered at the 8.2 m Subaru telescope and FOCAS, we ha
I review the progress in research on intracluster planetary nebulae over the last five years. Hundreds more intracluster planetary nebulae have been detected in the nearby Virgo and Fornax galaxy clusters, searches of several galaxy groups have been
I review the progress in research on Intracluster Planetary Nebulae (IPN). Hundreds of IPN candidates have now been found in the Virgo and Fornax galaxy clusters, and searches of two nearby galaxy groups have made. From the results thus far, approxim
We compare the distribution of diffuse intracluster light detected in the Virgo Cluster via broadband imaging with that inferred from searches for intracluster planetary nebulae (IPNe). We find a rough correspondence on large scales (~ 100 kpc) betwe