2018AstL...44....8K


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2018AstL...44....8K - Astron. Lett., 44, 8-34 (2018/January-0)

Stellar mass-halo mass relation and star formation efficiency in high-mass halos.

KRAVTSOV A.V., VIKHLININ A.A. and MESHCHERYAKOV A.V.

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We study relation between stellar mass and halo mass for high-mass halos using a sample of galaxy clusters with accurate measurements of stellar masses from optical and ifrared data and total masses from X-ray observations. We find that stellar mass of the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) scales as M*,BCG ∝ M500αBCG with the best fit slope of αBCG~=0.4±0.1. We measure scatter of M*,BCG at a fixed M500 of ~=0.2dex. We show that stellar mass-halo mass relations from abundance matching or halo modelling reported in recent studies underestimate masses of BCGs by a factor of ∼2-4. We argue that this is because these studies used stellar mass functions (SMF) based on photometry that severely underestimates the outer surface brightness profiles of massive galaxies. We show that M*-M relation derived using abundance matching with the recent SMF calibration by Bernardi et al. (2013MNRAS.436..697B) based on improved photometry is in a much better agreement with the relation we derive via direct calibration for observed clusters. The total stellar mass of galaxies correlates with total mass M 500 with the slope of ∼0.6±0.1 and scatter of 0.1 dex. This indicates that efficiency with which baryons are converted into stars decreases with increasing cluster mass. The low scatter is due to large contribution of satellite galaxies: the stellar mass in satellite galaxies correlates with M 500 with scatter of ∼0.1dex and best fit slope of αsat ∼0.8±0.1. We show that for a fixed choice of the initial mass function (IMF) total stellar fraction in clusters is only a factor of 3-5 lower than the peak stellar fraction reached in M∼1012M☉ halos. The difference is only a factor of ∼1.5-3 if the IMF becomes progressively more bottom heavy with increasing mass in early type galaxies, as indicated by recent observational analyses. This means that the overall efficiency of star formation in massive halos is only moderately suppressed compared to L* galaxies and is considerably less suppressed than previously thought. The larger normalization and slope of the M*-M relation derived in this study shows that feedback and associated suppression of star formation in massive halos should be weaker than assumed in most of the current semi-analytic models and simulations.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxy clusters - dark matter - stellar mass - star formation

CDS comments: 2018PAZh...44....4K

Simbad objects: 9

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Number of rows : 9
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 ACO 85 ClG 00 41 36.21 -09 19 30.4           ~ 974 0
2 ClG J1159+5531 ClG 11 59 53.02 +55 32 22.8     15.64     ~ 100 1
3 NAME NGC 4073 Group GrG 12 04 44.08 +01 48 40.9     13.53     ~ 292 0
4 ACO 1795 ClG 13 48 47.4 +26 34 55           ~ 1330 0
5 ACO 1991 ClG 14 54 41.53 +18 38 08.4           ~ 349 1
6 ACO 2029 ClG 15 10 54.2 +05 44 23           ~ 1020 0
7 ACO 2052 ClG 15 16 41.64 +07 01 45.5           ~ 756 1
8 ACT-CL J1521.8+0742 ClG 15 21 48.8 +07 43 41     15.13     ~ 326 0
9 ACO 2142 ClG 15 58 26.5 +27 13 52           ~ 825 0

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