The masses of satellites in GAMA galaxy groups from 100 square degrees of KiDS weak lensing data

Sifón, C.; Cacciato, M.; Hoekstra, H.; Brouwer, M.; van Uitert, E.; Viola, M.; Baldry, I.; Brough, S.; Brown, M.J.I.; Choi, A.; Driver, S.P.; Erben, T.; Grado, A.; Heymans, C.; Hildebrandt, H.; Joachimi, B.; de Jong, J.T.A.; Kuijken, K.; McFarland, J.; Miller, L.; Nakajima, R.; Napolitano, N.; Norberg, P.; Robotham, A.S.G.; Schneider, P.; Kleijn, G.V.

doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2051

The masses of satellites in GAMA galaxy groups from 100 square degrees of KiDS weak lensing data

Sifón, C.; Cacciato, M.; Hoekstra, H.; Brouwer, M.; van Uitert, E.; Viola, M.; Baldry, I.; Brough, S.; Brown, M.J.I.; Choi, A.; Driver, S.P.; Erben, T.; Grado, A.; Heymans, C.; Hildebrandt, H.; Joachimi, B.; de Jong, J.T.A.; Kuijken, K.; McFarland, J.; Miller, L.; Nakajima, R.; Napolitano, N.; Norberg, P.; Robotham, A.S.G.; Schneider, P.; Kleijn, G.V.

Authors

C. Sifón

M. Cacciato

H. Hoekstra

M. Brouwer

E. van Uitert

M. Viola

I. Baldry

S. Brough

M.J.I. Brown

A. Choi

S.P. Driver

T. Erben

A. Grado

C. Heymans

H. Hildebrandt

B. Joachimi

J.T.A. de Jong

K. Kuijken

J. McFarland

L. Miller

R. Nakajima

N. Napolitano

Professor Peder Norberg peder.norberg@durham.ac.uk
Professor

A.S.G. Robotham

P. Schneider

G.V. Kleijn

Abstract

We use the first 100 deg2 of overlap between the Kilo-Degree Survey and the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey to determine the average galaxy halo mass of ∼10 000 spectroscopically confirmed satellite galaxies in massive (M > 1013 h−1 M⊙) galaxy groups. Separating the sample as a function of projected distance to the group centre, we jointly model the satellites and their host groups with Navarro–Frenk–White density profiles, fully accounting for the data covariance. The probed satellite galaxies in these groups have total masses log 〈Msub/(h−1 M⊙)〉 ≈ 11.7–12.2 consistent across group-centric distance within the errorbars. Given their typical stellar masses, log 〈M⋆, sat/(h−2 M⊙)〉 ∼ 10.5, such total masses imply stellar mass fractions of 〈M⋆, sat〉/〈Msub〉 ≈ 0.04 h−1. The average subhalo hosting these satellite galaxies has a mass Msub ∼ 0.015Mhost independent of host halo mass, in broad agreement with the expectations of structure formation in a Λ cold dark matter universe.

Citation

Sifón, C., Cacciato, M., Hoekstra, H., Brouwer, M., van Uitert, E., Viola, M., …Kleijn, G. (2015). The masses of satellites in GAMA galaxy groups from 100 square degrees of KiDS weak lensing data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(4), 3938-3951. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2051

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Aug 30, 2015
Publication Date	Dec 21, 2015
Deposit Date	Feb 3, 2016
Publicly Available Date	Feb 18, 2016
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN	0035-8711
Electronic ISSN	1365-2966
Publisher	Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	454
Issue	4
Pages	3938-3951
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2051
Keywords	Gravitational lensing: weak, Methods: observational, Methods: statistical, Galaxies: haloes, Galaxies: statistics, Dark matter.

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