A possible dearth of hot gas in galaxy groups at intermediate redshift

Details A possible dearth of hot gas in galaxy groups at intermediate redshift A possible dearth of hot gas in galaxy groups at intermediate redshift

2006-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611625v2

Astrophys.J.658:288-298,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 5 figures, reference added in section 1, typos corrected, published in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/511253

We examine the X-ray luminosity of galaxy groups in the CNOC2 survey, at redshifts 0.1 < z < 0.6. Previous work examining the gravitational lensing signal of the CNOC2 groups has shown that they are likely to be genuine, gravitationally bound objects. Of the 21 groups in the field of view of the EPIC-PN camera on XMM-Newton, not one was visible in over 100 ksec of observation, even though three of the them have velocity dispersions high enough that they would easily be visible if their luminosities scaled with their velocity dispersions in the same way as nearby groups' luminosities scale. We consider the possibility that this is due to the reported velocity dispersions being erroneously high, and conclude that this is unlikely. We therefore find tentative evidence that groups at intermediate redshift are underluminous relative to their local cousins.

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