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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 475, Issue 3, Pages 3654-3681Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3329
Keywords
galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: star formation
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- Israel Science Foundation (ISF) [24/12]
- German-Israeli Foundation [G-1052-104.7/2009]
- Deutsch-Israelische Projektkooperation grant
- Israeli Centers Of Research Excellence Program of the PBC
- ISF grant [1829/12]
- National Science Foundation [AST-1010033, AST-1405962, AST-1412768]
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We find, using cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters, that the hot X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM) enclosed within the outer accretion shock extends out to R-shock similar to (2-3) R-vir, where Rvir is the standard virial radius of the halo. Using a simple analytic model for satellite galaxies in the cluster, we evaluate the effect of ram-pressure stripping on the gas in the inner discs and in the haloes at different distances from the cluster centre. We find that significant removal of star-forming disc gas occurs only at r less than or similar to 0.5R(vir), while gas removal from the satellite halo is more effective and can occur when the satellite is found between R-vir and Rshock. Removal of halo gas sets the stage for quenching of the star formation by starvation over 2-3 Gyr, prior to the satellite entry to the inner cluster halo. This scenario explains the presence of quenched galaxies, preferentially discs, at the outskirts of galaxy clusters, and the delayed quenching of satellites compared to central galaxies.
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