The stellar mass fraction and baryon content of galaxy clusters and groups

Details The stellar mass fraction and baryon content of galaxy clusters and groups The stellar mass fraction and baryon content of galaxy clusters and groups

2010-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/1004.2785v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

MNRAS, in press

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[Abridged] The analysis of a sample of 52 clusters with precise and hypothesis-parsimonious measurements of mass shows that low mass clusters and groups are not simple scaled-down versions of their massive cousins in terms of stellar content: lighter clusters have more stars per unit cluster mass. The same analysis also shows that the stellar content of clusters and groups displays an intrinsic spread at a given cluster mass, i.e. clusters are not similar each other in the amount of stars they contain, not even at a fixed cluster mass. The stellar mass fraction depends on halo mass with (logarithmic) slope -0.55+/-0.08 and with 0.15+/-0.02 dex of intrinsic scatter at a fixed cluster mass. The intrinsic scatter at a fixed cluster mass we determine for gas mass fractions is smaller, 0.06+/-0.01 dex. The intrinsic scatter in both the stellar and gas mass fractions is a distinctive signature that the regions from which clusters and groups collected matter, a few tens of Mpc, are yet not representative, in terms of gas and baryon content, of the mean matter content of the Universe. The observed stellar mass fraction values are in marked disagreement with gasdynamics simulations with cooling and star formation of clusters and groups. We found the the baryon (gas+stellar) fraction is fairly constant for clusters and groups with 13.7

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