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CFHTLS星系团光学星系光度函数的演化:质量与红移间简并的突破

Evolution of the cluster optical galaxy luminosity function in the CFHTLS : breaking the degeneracy between mass and redshift

Florian Sarron, Nicolas Martinet, Florence Durret, Christophe Adami

摘要:

获得大样本的星系团对宇宙学很重要,因为星系团的计数作为红移和质量的函数可以限制我们宇宙的参数。它们对于理解团簇的形成和演化也是有用的。我们开发了一个改进的AMACFI星系团发现器(现在的AMASCFI),并将其应用于加拿大-法国-夏威夷望远镜遗产巡天(CFHTLS)的154 deg 2,获得了一个包含1371个质量M200 > 10^14 Msun,红移z < 0.7的候选星系团的星表。我们从千禧年模拟中推导出AMASCFI的选择函数,并从将我们的候选人与X射线探测相匹配的丰度-质量比例关系中获得集群质量。通过计算早期星系(ETG)和晚期星系(LTG)的i '波段星系光度函数(GLF),研究了这些星系团随质量和红移的演化。这个样品是90%的纯度和70%的完整性,因此我们的结果是代表在这些红移和质量范围内的集群人口。我们发现随着红移的减小,ETG和LTG的微弱粒子数都增加了(在z=0.6处,Schechter斜率α_ETG = -0.65 +/-0.03;在z=0.2处,α_ETG = -0.79 +/-0.02),LTG的亮端也减少了,但ETG的亮端没有减少。我们的大样本使我们能够打破质量和红移之间的简并性,发现红移演化在高质量星系团中更为明显,但对于给定的红移,暗端对质量没有显着的依赖性。这些结果表明,团簇红色序列主要在红移z > 0.7处形成,并且在z < 0.7处,微弱的ETG通过较亮的LTG的猝灭继续富集红色序列。这种淬灭的效率在大质量的星系团中更高,而微弱的LTG的吸积率更低,因为质量更大的星系团已经在更高的红移处清空了大部分环境。

英文摘要:

Obtaining large samples of galaxy clusters is important for cosmology, since cluster counts as a function of redshift and mass can constrain the parameters of our Universe. They are also useful to understand the formation and evolution of clusters. We develop an improved version of the AMACFI cluster finder (now AMASCFI) and apply it to the 154 deg2 of the Canada France Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) to obtain a catalogue of 1371 cluster candidates with mass M200 > 10^14 Msun and redshift z < 0.7. We derive the selection function of AMASCFI from the Millennium simulation, and cluster masses from a richness-mass scaling relation built from matching our candidates with X-ray detections. We study the evolution of these clusters with mass and redshift by computing the i'-band galaxy luminosity functions (GLFs) for the early (ETGs) and late-type galaxies (LTGs). This sample is 90% pure and 70% complete, therefore our results are representative the cluster population in these redshift and mass ranges. We find an increase of both the ETG and LTG faint populations with decreasing redshift (with Schechter slopes alpha_ETG = -0.65 +/- 0.03 at z=0.6 and alpha_ETG = -0.79 +\- 0.02 at z=0.2) and also a decrease of the LTG bright end, but not of the ETG's. Our large sample allows us to break the degeneracy between mass and redshift, finding that the redshift evolution is more pronounced in high-mass clusters, but that there is no significant dependence of the faint end on mass for a given redshift. These results show that the cluster red sequence is mainly formed at redshift z > 0.7, and that faint ETGs continue to enrich the red sequence through quenching of brighter LTGs at z < 0.7. The efficiency of this quenching is higher in large-mass clusters while the accretion rate of faint LTGs is lower as the more massive clusters have already emptied most of their environment at higher redshifts.

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