4.7 Article

Mass profiles and galaxy orbits in nearby galaxy clusters from the analysis of the projected phase space

期刊

出版社

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17297.x

关键词

galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; dark matter

资金

  1. Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [NN203025333]
  2. LEA Astro-PF
  3. Foundation for Polish Science

向作者/读者索取更多资源

We analyse kinematic data of 41 nearby (z < 0.1) relaxed galaxy clusters in terms of the projected phase-space density using a phenomenological, fully anisotropic model of the distribution function. We apply the Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach to place constraints on total mass distribution approximated by the universal Navarro, Frenk and White (NFW) profile and the profile of the anisotropy of galaxy orbits. We find the normalization of the mean mass-concentration relation is c =6.9(-0.7)(+0.6\\) at the virial mass M-v = 5 x 10(14) M-circle dot. By comparison with the calibration from cosmological N-body simulations it is demonstrated that this result is fully consistent with sigma(8) from 1-yr Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP1) data release and agrees at similar to 1 sigma level with that from WMAP5. Assuming a one-to-one correspondence between s8 and the normalization of the mass-concentration relation in the framework of the concordance model we estimate the normalization of the linear power spectrum to be sigma(8) = 0.91(-0.08)(+0.07). Our constraints on the parameters of the mass profile are compared with estimates from X-ray observations and other methods based on galaxy kinematics. We also study correlations between the virial mass and different mass proxies including the velocity dispersion, the X-ray temperature and the X-ray luminosity. We demonstrate that the mass scaling relations with the velocity dispersion and the X- ray temperature are fully consistent with the predictions of the virial theorem. We show that galaxy orbits are isotropic at the cluster centres (with the mean ratio of the radial-to-tangential velocity dispersions sigma(r)/sigma(theta) = 0.97 +/- 0.04) and radially anisotropic at the virial sphere (with the mean ratio sigma(r)/sigma(theta) = 1.75(-0.19)(+0.23)). Although the value of the central anisotropy appears to be universal, the anisotropy at the virial radius differs between clusters within the range 1 less than or similar to (sigma(r)/sigma(theta)) less than or similar to 2. Utilizing the Bautz-Morgan morphological classification and information on the prominence of a cool core we select two subsamples of galaxy clusters corresponding to less and more advanced evolutionary states. It is demonstrated that less evolved clusters have shallower mass profiles and their galaxy orbits are more radially biased at the virial sphere. This property is consistent with the expected evolution of the mass profiles as well as with the observed orbital segregation of late- and early-type galaxies.

作者

我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。

评论

主要评分

4.7
评分不足

次要评分

新颖性
-
重要性
-
科学严谨性
-
评价这篇论文

推荐

暂无数据
暂无数据