Progress Report on the Relationship Between the Bright and Faint Galaxies in Abell 3659

The properties of bright galaxies are closely related to those of their nearby neighbors and satellite galaxies. In addition, the properties of galaxies in clusters are known to be strongly affected by the cluster environment. These two environmental effects raise a question: how significantly do nearby neighbors and satellite galaxies affect the properties of bright galaxies in a cluster? To address this issue, we reduce and analyze the deep and wide-field images of Abell 3659 (z ~ 0.0907) in the g' and r' bands obtained using IMACS on the Magellan (Baade) 6.5m telescope. The main goal of this study is to find out the relationship between the properties of bright galaxies and those of fainter companion galaxies in a cluster. This poster is a progress report, in which we present the sample selection and the preliminary results.