Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-02-02
Astron.J.132:1275-1297,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
34 pages, 24 figures, accepted for publication in AJ, full resolution version available at http://www.astro.yale.edu/krines/
Scientific paper
10.1086/506017
We use the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to test the ubiquity of infall patterns around galaxy clusters and measure cluster mass profiles to large radii. We match X-ray cluster catalogs with SDSS, search for infall patterns, and compute mass profiles for a complete sample of X-ray selected clusters. Very clean infall patterns are apparent in most of the clusters, with the fraction decreasing with increasing redshift due to shallower sampling. All 72 clusters in a well-defined sample limited by redshift (ensuring good sampling) and X-ray flux (excluding superpositions) show infall patterns sufficient to apply the caustic technique. This sample is by far the largest sample of cluster mass profiles extending to large radii to date. Similar to CAIRNS, cluster infall patterns are better defined in observations than in simulations. Further work is needed to determine the source of this difference. We use the infall patterns to compute mass profiles for 72 clusters and compare them to model profiles. Cluster scaling relations using caustic masses agree well with those using X-ray or virial mass estimates, confirming the reliability of the caustic technique. We confirm the conclusion of CAIRNS that cluster infall regions are well fit by NFW and Hernquist profiles and poorly fit by singular isothermal spheres. This much larger sample enables new comparisons of cluster properties with those in simulations. The shapes (specifically, NFW concentrations) of the mass profiles agree well with the predictions of simulations. The mass inside the turnaround radius is on average 2.19$\pm$0.18 times that within the virial radius. This ratio agrees well with recent predictions from simulations of the final masses of dark matter haloes.
Diaferio Antonaldo
Rines Kenneth
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