The Three Hundred project: Shapes and radial alignment of satellite, infalling, and backsplash galaxies

Using 324 numerically modelled galaxy clusters, we investigate the radial and galaxy-halo alignment of dark matter subhaloes and satellite galaxies orbiting within and around them. We find that radial alignment depends on distance to the centre of the galaxy cluster but appears independent of the dy...

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Autores: Knebe, Alexander, Cui, Weiguang, Hoffmann, Kai, Mostoghiu, Robert, Gámez Marín, Matías, Pearce, Frazer R., Power, Chris, Haggar, Roan, De Petris, Marco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/720906
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/720906
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1407
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:cosmology: Theory
galaxies: clusters: general
galaxies: formation
galaxies: haloes
large-scale structure of the universe
methods: numerical
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Sumario:Using 324 numerically modelled galaxy clusters, we investigate the radial and galaxy-halo alignment of dark matter subhaloes and satellite galaxies orbiting within and around them. We find that radial alignment depends on distance to the centre of the galaxy cluster but appears independent of the dynamical state of the central host cluster. Furthermore, we cannot find a relation between radial alignment of the halo or galaxy shape with its own mass. We report that backsplash galaxies, i.e. objects that have already passed through the cluster radius but are now located in the outskirts, show a stronger radial alignment than infalling objects. We further find that there exists a population of well radially aligned objects passing very close to the central cluster's centre that were found to be on highly radial orbit