2014MNRAS.440.3520S -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 440, 3520-3531 (2014/June-1)
The MUSIC of Galaxy Clusters - III. Properties, evolution and Y-M scaling relation of protoclusters of galaxies.
SEMBOLINI F., DE PETRIS M., YEPES G., FOSCHI E., LAMAGNA L. and GOTTLOBER S.
Abstract (from CDS):
In this work, we study the properties of protoclusters of galaxies by employing the MultiDark SImulations of galaxy Clusters (MUSIC) set of hydrodynamical simulations, featuring a sample of 282 resimulated clusters with available merger trees up to z = 4. We study the characteristics and redshift evolution of the mass and the spatial distribution for all the protoclusters, which we define as the most massive progenitors of the clusters identified at z = 0. We extend the study of the baryon content to redshifts larger than 1 also in terms of gas and stars budgets: no remarkable variations with redshift are discovered. Furthermore, motivated by the proven potential of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich surveys to blindly search for faint distant objects, we compute the scaling relation between total object mass and integrated Compton y-parameter. We find that the slope of this scaling law is steeper than what expected for a self-similarity assumption among these objects, and it increases with redshift mainly when radiative processes are included. We use three different criteria to account for the dynamical state of the protoclusters, and find no significant dependence of the scaling parameters on the level of relaxation. We exclude the dynamical state as the cause of the observed deviations from self-similarity in protoclusters.
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© 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014)
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methods: numerical - galaxies: clusters: general - cosmology: miscellaneous - cosmology: theory
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