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2020MNRAS.492.6074H - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 492, 6074-6085 (2020/March-2)

THETHREEHUNDRED project: backsplash galaxies in simulations of clusters.

HAGGAR R., GRAY M.E., PEARCE F.R., KNEBE A., CUI W., MOSTOGHIU R. and YEPES G.

Abstract (from CDS):

In the outer regions of a galaxy cluster, galaxies either may be falling into the cluster for the first time or have already passed through the cluster centre at some point in their past. To investigate these two distinct populations, we utilize THETHREEHUNDRED project, a suite of 324 hydrodynamical resimulations of galaxy clusters. In particular, we study the `backsplash population' of galaxies: those that have passed within R200 of the cluster centre at some time in their history, but are now outside of this radius. We find that, on average, over half of all galaxies between R200 and 2R200 from their host at z = 0 are backsplash galaxies, but that this fraction is dependent on the dynamical state of a cluster, as dynamically relaxed clusters have a greater backsplash fraction. We also find that this population is mostly developed at recent times (z <= 0.4), and is dependent on the recent history of a cluster. Finally, we show that the dynamical state of a given cluster, and thus the fraction of backsplash galaxies in its outskirts, can be predicted based on observational properties of the cluster.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): methods: numerical - galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: general

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