Issue |
A&A
Volume 577, May 2015
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Article Number | A19 | |
Number of page(s) | 15 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425460 | |
Published online | 24 April 2015 |
Evidence for the inside-out growth of the stellar mass distribution in galaxy clusters since z ~ 1⋆
1
Laboratoire AIM, IRFU/Service d’Astrophysique − CEA/DSM – CNRS – Université
Paris Diderot, Bât. 709, CEA-Saclay,
91191
Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
France
e-mail:
remco.van-der-burg@cea.fr
2
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University,
PO Box 9513, 2300 RA
Leiden, The
Netherlands
3
Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of
Cambridge, Madingley
Road, Cambridge,
CB3 0HA,
UK
4
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Waterloo, Waterloo,
Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
5
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15
2TT, UK
Received: 4 December 2014
Accepted: 13 February 2015
We study the radial number density and stellar mass density distributions of satellite galaxies in a sample of 60 massive clusters at 0.04 <z< 0.26 selected from the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey (MENeaCS) and the Canadian Cluster Comparison Project (CCCP). In addition to ~10 000 spectroscopically confirmed member galaxies, we use deep ugri-band imaging to estimate photometric redshifts and stellar masses, and then statistically subtract fore- and background sources using data from the COSMOS survey. We measure the galaxy number density and stellar mass density distributions in logarithmically spaced bins over 2 orders of magnitude in radial distance from the BCGs. For projected distances in the range 0.1 <R/R200< 2.0, we find that the stellar mass distribution is well-described by an NFW profile with a concentration of c = 2.03 ± 0.20. However, at smaller radii we measure a significant excess in the stellar mass in satellite galaxies of about 1011M⊙ per cluster, compared to these NFW profiles. We do obtain good fits to generalised NFW profiles with free inner slopes and to Einasto profiles. To examine how clusters assemble their stellar mass component over cosmic time, we compare this local sample to the GCLASS cluster sample at z ~ 1, which represents the approximate progenitor sample of the low-z clusters. This allows for a direct comparison, which suggests that the central parts (R< 0.4 Mpc) of the stellar mass distributions of satellites in local galaxy clusters are already in place at z ~ 1, and contain sufficient excess material for further BCG growth. Evolving towards z = 0, clusters appear to assemble their stellar mass primarily onto the outskirts, making them grow in an inside-out fashion.
Key words: galaxies: clusters: general / galaxies: evolution / galaxies: photometry
Appendix A is available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
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