Galaxy groups in the 2dFGRS: the luminous content of the groups

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2004-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402566v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.355:769,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08354.x

The 2dFGRS Percolation-Inferred Galaxy Group (2PIGG) catalogue of ~29000 objects is used to study the luminous content of galaxy systems of various sizes. Mock galaxy catalogues constructed from cosmological simulations are used to gauge the accuracy with which intrinsic group properties can be recovered. A Schechter function is found to be a reasonable fit to the galaxy luminosity functions in groups of different mass in the real data. The characteristic luminosity L* is larger for more massive groups. However, the mock data show that the shape of the recovered luminosity function is expected to differ from the true shape, and this must be allowed for when interpreting the data. The variation of halo mass-to-light ratio with group size is studied in both these wavebands. A robust trend of increasing M/L with increasing group luminosity is found in the 2PIGG data. From groups with L_bj=10^{10}Lsol to those 100 times more luminous, the typical bj-band M/L increases by a factor of 5, whereas the rf-band M/L grows by a factor of 3.5. These trends agree well with the simulations, which also predict a minimum M/L on a scale corresponding to the Local Group. Our data indicate that if such a minimum exists, then it must occur at L<~10^{10}Lsol, below the range accurately probed by the 2PIGG catalogue. According to the mock data, the bj M/Ls of the largest groups are expected to be approximately 1.1 times the global value. Assuming that this correction applies to the real data yields an estimate of Omega_m=0.26+/-0.03 (statistical).

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