Stellar and total baryon mass fractions in groups and clusters since Redshift 1

Giodini, S.; Pierini, D.; Finoguenov, A.; Pratt, G.W.; Boehringer, H.; Leauthaud, A.; Guzzo, L.; Aussel, H.; Bolzonella, M.; Capak, P.; Elvis, M.; Hasinger, G.; Ilbert, O.; Kartaltepe, J.S.; Koekemoer, A.M.; Lilly, S.J.; Massey, R.; McCracken, H.J.; Rhodes, J.; Salvato, M.; Sanders, D.B.; Scoville, N.Z.; Sasaki, S.; Smolcic, V.; Taniguchi, Y.; Thompson, D.; Collaboration, COSMOS

doi:10.1088/0004-637x/703/1/982

Stellar and total baryon mass fractions in groups and clusters since Redshift 1

Giodini, S.; Pierini, D.; Finoguenov, A.; Pratt, G.W.; Boehringer, H.; Leauthaud, A.; Guzzo, L.; Aussel, H.; Bolzonella, M.; Capak, P.; Elvis, M.; Hasinger, G.; Ilbert, O.; Kartaltepe, J.S.; Koekemoer, A.M.; Lilly, S.J.; Massey, R.; McCracken, H.J.; Rhodes, J.; Salvato, M.; Sanders, D.B.; Scoville, N.Z.; Sasaki, S.; Smolcic, V.; Taniguchi, Y.; Thompson, D.; Collaboration, COSMOS

Authors

S. Giodini

D. Pierini

A. Finoguenov

G.W. Pratt

H. Boehringer

A. Leauthaud

L. Guzzo

H. Aussel

M. Bolzonella

P. Capak

M. Elvis

G. Hasinger

O. Ilbert

J.S. Kartaltepe

A.M. Koekemoer

S.J. Lilly

Professor Richard Massey r.j.massey@durham.ac.uk
Professor

H.J. McCracken

J. Rhodes

M. Salvato

D.B. Sanders

N.Z. Scoville

S. Sasaki

V. Smolcic

Y. Taniguchi

D. Thompson

COSMOS Collaboration

Abstract

We investigate if the discrepancy between estimates of the total baryon mass fraction obtained from observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and of galaxy groups/clusters persists when a large sample of groups is considered. To this purpose, 91 candidate X-ray groups/poor clusters at redshift 0.1 ≤ z ≤ 1 are selected from the COSMOS 2 deg2 survey, based only on their X-ray luminosity and extent. This sample is complemented by 27 nearby clusters with a robust, analogous determination of the total and stellar mass inside R 500. The total sample of 118 groups and clusters with z ≤ 1 spans a range in M 500 of ~1013-1015 M ☉. We find that the stellar mass fraction associated with galaxies at R 500 decreases with increasing total mass as M –0.37 ± 0.04 500, independent of redshift. Estimating the total gas mass fraction from a recently derived, high-quality scaling relation, the total baryon mass fraction (f stars+gas 500 = f stars 500 + f gas 500) is found to increase by ~25%, when M 500 increases from langMrang = 5 × 1013 M ☉ to langMrang = 7 × 1014 M ☉. After consideration of a plausible contribution due to intracluster light (11%-22% of the total stellar mass) and gas depletion through the hierarchical assembly process (10% of the gas mass), the estimated values of the total baryon mass fraction are still lower than the latest CMB measure of the same quantity (WMAP5), at a significance level of 3.3σ for groups of langMrang = 5 × 1013 M ☉. The discrepancy decreases toward higher total masses, such that it is 1σ at langMrang = 7 × 1014 M ☉. We discuss this result in terms of nongravitational processes such as feedback and filamentary heating.

Citation

Giodini, S., Pierini, D., Finoguenov, A., Pratt, G., Boehringer, H., Leauthaud, A., …Collaboration, C. (2009). Stellar and total baryon mass fractions in groups and clusters since Redshift 1. Astrophysical Journal, 703(1), 982-993. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/703/1/982

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Sep 20, 2009
Deposit Date	Mar 21, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Feb 11, 2015
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Print ISSN	0004-637X
Electronic ISSN	1538-4357
Publisher	American Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	703
Issue	1
Article Number	982
Pages	982-993
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/703/1/982
Keywords	Cosmological parameters, Cosmology: observations, Diffuse radiation, Galaxies: clusters: general, Galaxies: stellar content, X-rays: galaxies: clusters.