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Sloan数字巡天星系团中星系运动的空间各向异性

Spatial Anisotropy of Galaxy Kinematics in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Clusters

Andreas Skielboe, Radoslaw Wojtak, Kristian Pedersen, Eduardo Rozo, Eli S. Rykoff

摘要:

星系团运动学的测量对于理解星系团的动力学状态和演化,以及约束宇宙学模型具有重要意义。虽然星系团呈现出非球形的几何形状,在天空中的星系分布中很明显,但星系团内星系运动学的方位角变化尚未被观察到。在这里,我们测量的视线速度色散分布在一个堆叠的样本1743星系团从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的方位角的依赖性。这些聚类来自SDSS DR8 redMapPer星表。我们发现,在中心星系的长轴上的星系的视线速度色散大于在短轴上的星系。这是第一次观测到星系团中星系的各向异性运动学。我们的结果是一致的数值模拟的预测。此外,我们发现,投影各向异性的程度是强烈依赖于视线方向的星系团,光学集群发现评估系统开辟了新的可能性。

英文摘要:

Measurements of galaxy cluster kinematics are important in understanding the dynamical state and evolution of clusters of galaxies, as well as constraining cosmological models. While it is well established that clusters exhibit non-spherical geometries, evident in the distribution of galaxies on the sky, azimuthal variations of galaxy kinematics within clusters have yet to be observed. Here we measure the azimuthal dependence of the line-of-sight velocity dispersion profile in a stacked sample of 1743 galaxy clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The clusters are drawn from the SDSS DR8 redMaPPer catalog. We find that the line-of-sight velocity dispersion of galaxies lying along the major axis of the central galaxy is larger than those that lie along the minor axis. This is the first observational detection of anisotropic kinematics of galaxies in clusters. We show that the result is consistent with predictions from numerical simulations. Furthermore we find that the degree of projected anisotropy is strongly dependent on the line-of-sight orientation of the galaxy cluster, opening new possibilities for assessing systematics in optical cluster finding.

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