A study of the hydrostatic mass bias dependence and evolution within the Three Hundred clusters

We use a set of about 300 simulated clusters from THE THREE HUNDRED Project to calculate their hydrostatic masses and evaluate the associated bias by comparing them with the true cluster mass. Over a redshift range from 0.07 to 1.3, we study the dependence of the hydrostatic bias on redshift, concen...

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Authors: Gianfagna, Giulia, Rasia, Elena, Cui, Weiguang, De Petris, Marco, Yepes Alonso, Gustavo, Contreras de Santos, Ana, Knebe, Alexander
Format: article
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repository:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/715393
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/715393
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3364
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Galaxies: clusters: general
galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium
large-scale structure of Universe
methods: numerical
Física
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Summary:We use a set of about 300 simulated clusters from THE THREE HUNDRED Project to calculate their hydrostatic masses and evaluate the associated bias by comparing them with the true cluster mass. Over a redshift range from 0.07 to 1.3, we study the dependence of the hydrostatic bias on redshift, concentration, mass growth, dynamical state, mass, and halo shapes. We find almost no correlation between the bias and any of these parameters. However, there is a clear evidence that the scatter of the mass-bias distribution is larger for low-concentrated objects, high mass growth, and more generically for disturbed systems. Moreover, we carefully study the evolution of the bias of 12 clusters throughout a major-merger event. We find that the hydrostatic-mass bias follows a particular evolution track along the merger process: to an initial significant increase of the bias recorded at the begin of merger, a constant plateaus follows until the end of merge, when there is a dramatic decrease in the bias before the cluster finally become relaxed again. This large variation of the bias is in agreement with the large scatter of the hydrostatic bias for dynamical disturbed clusters. These objects should be avoided in cosmological studies because their exact relaxation phase is difficult to predict, hence their mass bias cannot be trivially accounted for