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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
卷 146, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/146/5/124
关键词
galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: groups: general; galaxies: ISM; radio lines: galaxies
资金
- South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST)
- Square Kilometre Array South Africa (SKA SA)
- National Research Foundation (NRF)
- National Science Foundation [AST-0730052]
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School
We present an analysis of the neutral hydrogen (H I) content and distribution of galaxies in groups as a function of their parent dark matter halo mass. The Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA survey alpha.40 data release allows us, for the first time, to study the Hi properties of over 740 galaxy groups in the volume of sky common to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and ALFALFA surveys. We assigned ALFALFA Hi detections a group membership based on an existing magnitude/volume-limited SDSS Data Release 7 group/cluster catalog. Additionally, we assigned group proximity membership to Hi detected objects whose optical counterpart falls below the limiting optical magnitude-thereby not contributing substantially to the estimate of the group stellar mass, but significantly to the total group Hi mass. We find that only 25% of the Hi detected galaxies reside in groups or clusters, in contrast to approximately half of all optically detected galaxies. Further, we plot the relative positions of optical and Hi detections in groups as a function of parent dark matter halo mass to reveal strong evidence that Hi is being processed in galaxies as a result of the group environment: as optical membership increases, groups become increasingly deficient of Hi rich galaxies at their center and the Hi distribution of galaxies in the most massive groups starts to resemble the distribution observed in comparatively more extreme cluster environments. We find that the lowest Hi mass objects lose their gas first as they are processed in the group environment, and it is evident that the infall of gas rich objects is important to the continuing growth of large scale structure at the present epoch, replenishing the neutral gas supply of groups. Finally, we compare our results to those of cosmological simulations and find that current models cannot simultaneously predict the Hi selected halo occupation distribution for both low and high mass halos.
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