REVISED MASS-TO-LIGHT RATIOS FOR NEARBY GALAXY GROUPS AND CLUSTERS
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Shan, Yutong
McDonald, Michael A.
Courtreau, Stephane
Date Issued
February 2015
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The Astrophysical Journal
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IOP Publishing
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Shan, Yutong, Michael McDonald, and Stephane Courteau. “REVISED MASS-TO-LIGHT RATIOS FOR NEARBY GALAXY GROUPS AND CLUSTERS.” The Astrophysical Journal 800, no. 2 (February 18, 2015): 122. © 2015 The American Astronomical Society
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Abstract
We present a detailed investigation of the cluster stellar mass-to-light (M*/L) ratio and cumulative stellar masses, derived on a galaxy-by-galaxy basis, for 12 massive (M [subscript 500] ~ 10[superscript 14]-10[superscript 15] M [subscript ☉]), nearby clusters with available optical imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 and X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Our method involves a statistical cluster membership using both photometric and spectroscopic redshifts when available to maximize completeness while minimizing contamination effects. We show that different methods of estimating the stellar mass-to-light ratio from observed photometry result in systematic discrepancies in the total stellar masses and average mass-to-light ratios of cluster galaxies. Nonetheless, all conversion methodologies point to a lack of correlation between M*/L[subscript i] and total cluster mass, even though low-mass groups contain relatively more blue galaxies. We also find no statistically significant correlation between M*/L[subscript i] and the fraction of blue galaxies (g – i < 0.85). For the mass range covered by our sample, the assumption of a Chabrier initial mass function (IMF) yields an integrated M*/L[subscript i] [~ over bar] 1.7 ± 0.2 M [subscript ☉]/L[subscript i], [subscript ☉], a lower value than used in most similar studies, though consistent with the study of low-mass galaxy groups by Leauthaud et al. A light (diet) Salpeter IMF would imply a ~60% increase in M*/L[subscript i].
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/800/2/122
