The intra-cluster light as a tracer of the total matter density distribution: a view from simulations

Alonso Asensio, I.; Dalla Vecchia, C.; Bahé, Y. M.; Barnes, D. J.; Kay, S. K.
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Contributions to the XIV.0 Scientific Meeting (virtual) of the Spanish Astronomical Society

Fecha de publicación:
7
2020
Número de autores
5
Número de autores del IAC
2
Número de citas
0
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0
Descripción
By using deep observations of clusters of galaxies, it has been recently found that the projected stellar mass density closely follows the projected total (dark and baryonic) mass density. In this work, we aim to test these observations using the Cluster-EAGLE simulations. We find that the shape of the stellar mass distribution follows that of the total matter even more closely than observed, although their radial profiles differ substantially. The ratio between stellar and total matter density profiles in circular apertures shows a slope close to -1, with a small dependence on the cluster's total mass. We propose an indirect method to calculate the halo mass and mass density profile from the radial profile of the intra-cluster stellar mass density.