nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region

We examine the properties of the galaxies and dark matter haloes residing in the cluster infall region surrounding the simulated _ cold dark matter galaxy cluster studied by Elahi et al. at z = 0. The 1.1 × 1015 h−1M_ galaxy cluster has been simulated with eight different hydrodynamical codes contai...

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Main Authors: Arthur, Jake, Pearce, Frazer R., Gray, Meghan E., Elahi, Pascal J., Knebe, Alexander, Beck, Alexander M., Cui, Weiguang, Cunnama, Daniel, Davé, Romeel, February, Sean, Huang, Shuiyao, Katz, Neal, Kay, Scott T., McCarthy, Ian G., Murante, Giuseppe, Perret, Valentin, Power, Chris, Puchwein, Ewald, Saro, Alexandro, Sembolini, Federico, Teyssier, Romain, Yepes, Gustavo
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author Arthur, Jake
Pearce, Frazer R.
Gray, Meghan E.
Elahi, Pascal J.
Knebe, Alexander
Beck, Alexander M.
Cui, Weiguang
Cunnama, Daniel
Davé, Romeel
February, Sean
Huang, Shuiyao
Katz, Neal
Kay, Scott T.
McCarthy, Ian G.
Murante, Giuseppe
Perret, Valentin
Power, Chris
Puchwein, Ewald
Saro, Alexandro
Sembolini, Federico
Teyssier, Romain
Yepes, Gustavo
author_facet Arthur, Jake
Pearce, Frazer R.
Gray, Meghan E.
Elahi, Pascal J.
Knebe, Alexander
Beck, Alexander M.
Cui, Weiguang
Cunnama, Daniel
Davé, Romeel
February, Sean
Huang, Shuiyao
Katz, Neal
Kay, Scott T.
McCarthy, Ian G.
Murante, Giuseppe
Perret, Valentin
Power, Chris
Puchwein, Ewald
Saro, Alexandro
Sembolini, Federico
Teyssier, Romain
Yepes, Gustavo
author_sort Arthur, Jake
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description We examine the properties of the galaxies and dark matter haloes residing in the cluster infall region surrounding the simulated _ cold dark matter galaxy cluster studied by Elahi et al. at z = 0. The 1.1 × 1015 h−1M_ galaxy cluster has been simulated with eight different hydrodynamical codes containing a variety of hydrodynamic solvers and sub-grid schemes. All models completed a dark-matter-only, non-radiative and full-physics run from the same initial conditions. The simulations contain dark matter and gas with mass resolution mDM = 9.01 × 108 h−1M_ and mgas = 1.9 × 108 h−1M_, respectively. We find that the synthetic cluster is surrounded by clear filamentary structures that contain ∼60 per cent of haloes in the infall region with mass ∼1012.5–1014 h−1M_, including 2–3 group-sized haloes (>1013 h−1M_). However, we find that only ∼10 per cent of objects in the infall region are sub-haloes residing in haloes, which may suggest that there is not much ongoing pre-processing occurring in the infall region at z = 0. By examining the baryonic content contained within the haloes, we also show that the code-to-code scatter in stellar fraction across all halo masses is typically ∼2 orders of magnitude between the two most extreme cases, and this is predominantly due to the differences in sub-grid schemes and calibration procedures that each model uses. Models that do not include active galactic nucleus feedback typically produce too high stellar fractions compared to observations by at least ∼1 order of magnitude.
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spelling nottingham-424792020-05-04T18:28:44Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42479/ nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region Arthur, Jake Pearce, Frazer R. Gray, Meghan E. Elahi, Pascal J. Knebe, Alexander Beck, Alexander M. Cui, Weiguang Cunnama, Daniel Davé, Romeel February, Sean Huang, Shuiyao Katz, Neal Kay, Scott T. McCarthy, Ian G. Murante, Giuseppe Perret, Valentin Power, Chris Puchwein, Ewald Saro, Alexandro Sembolini, Federico Teyssier, Romain Yepes, Gustavo We examine the properties of the galaxies and dark matter haloes residing in the cluster infall region surrounding the simulated _ cold dark matter galaxy cluster studied by Elahi et al. at z = 0. The 1.1 × 1015 h−1M_ galaxy cluster has been simulated with eight different hydrodynamical codes containing a variety of hydrodynamic solvers and sub-grid schemes. All models completed a dark-matter-only, non-radiative and full-physics run from the same initial conditions. The simulations contain dark matter and gas with mass resolution mDM = 9.01 × 108 h−1M_ and mgas = 1.9 × 108 h−1M_, respectively. We find that the synthetic cluster is surrounded by clear filamentary structures that contain ∼60 per cent of haloes in the infall region with mass ∼1012.5–1014 h−1M_, including 2–3 group-sized haloes (>1013 h−1M_). However, we find that only ∼10 per cent of objects in the infall region are sub-haloes residing in haloes, which may suggest that there is not much ongoing pre-processing occurring in the infall region at z = 0. By examining the baryonic content contained within the haloes, we also show that the code-to-code scatter in stellar fraction across all halo masses is typically ∼2 orders of magnitude between the two most extreme cases, and this is predominantly due to the differences in sub-grid schemes and calibration procedures that each model uses. Models that do not include active galactic nucleus feedback typically produce too high stellar fractions compared to observations by at least ∼1 order of magnitude. Oxford University Press 2017-01-31 Article PeerReviewed Arthur, Jake, Pearce, Frazer R., Gray, Meghan E., Elahi, Pascal J., Knebe, Alexander, Beck, Alexander M., Cui, Weiguang, Cunnama, Daniel, Davé, Romeel, February, Sean, Huang, Shuiyao, Katz, Neal, Kay, Scott T., McCarthy, Ian G., Murante, Giuseppe, Perret, Valentin, Power, Chris, Puchwein, Ewald, Saro, Alexandro, Sembolini, Federico, Teyssier, Romain and Yepes, Gustavo (2017) nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464 (2). pp. 2027-2038. ISSN 1365-2966 methods: numerical galaxies: clusters: general dark matter https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mnras/stw2424 doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2424 doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2424
spellingShingle methods: numerical
galaxies: clusters: general
dark matter
Arthur, Jake
Pearce, Frazer R.
Gray, Meghan E.
Elahi, Pascal J.
Knebe, Alexander
Beck, Alexander M.
Cui, Weiguang
Cunnama, Daniel
Davé, Romeel
February, Sean
Huang, Shuiyao
Katz, Neal
Kay, Scott T.
McCarthy, Ian G.
Murante, Giuseppe
Perret, Valentin
Power, Chris
Puchwein, Ewald
Saro, Alexandro
Sembolini, Federico
Teyssier, Romain
Yepes, Gustavo
nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region
title nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region
title_full nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region
title_fullStr nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region
title_full_unstemmed nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region
title_short nIFTy galaxy cluster simulations – V. Investigation of the cluster infall region
title_sort nifty galaxy cluster simulations – v. investigation of the cluster infall region
topic methods: numerical
galaxies: clusters: general
dark matter
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42479/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42479/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42479/