Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-07-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
AAS Latex file, 8 pages+ 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Scientific paper
10.1086/312229
It has been suggested that the mass-to-light ($M/L$) ratio of gravitationally clustering objects is scale-independent on scales beyond galaxy clusters, and may also be independent of the mass of the objects. In this paper, we show that the scale behavior of $M/L$ ratio is closely related to the scaling of cosmic structures larger than clusters. The scale dependence of the $M/L$ ratio can be determined by comparing the observed scaling of richness function (RF) of multi-scale identified objects with the model-predicted scaling of mass function (MF) of large scale structures. Using the multi-scale identified clusters from IRAS 1.2 Jy galaxy survey, we have made comparisons of the observed RF scaling of IRAS $r_{cl}$-clusters with the MF scalings given by simulations of three popular models SCDM, LCDM and OCDM. We find that, the M/L ratio basically is scale-independent from the Abell radius up to about 24 $h^{-1}$Mpc, while it seems to show a slight, but systematical, increase over this scale range. This result is weakly dependent on the cosmological parameters.
Fang Li-zhi
Xu Wen
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