New observational recipes for measuring dynamical state of galaxy clusters

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyowon, Smith, Rory, Ko, Jongwan, Shinn, Jong-Ho, Chun, Kyungwon, Shin, Jihye, Yoo, Jaewon
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author Kim, Hyowon
Smith, Rory
Ko, Jongwan
Shinn, Jong-Ho
Chun, Kyungwon
Shin, Jihye
Yoo, Jaewon
author_facet Kim, Hyowon
Smith, Rory
Ko, Jongwan
Shinn, Jong-Ho
Chun, Kyungwon
Shin, Jihye
Yoo, Jaewon
contents During cluster assembly, a cluster's virialization process leaves behind signatures that can provide information on its dynamical state. However, no clear consensus yet exists on the best way to achieve this. Therefore, we attempt to derive improved recipes for classifying the dynamical state of clusters in observations using cosmological simulations. Cluster halo mass and their subhalos' mass are used to $ 10^{14}M_{\odot} h^{-1}$ and $10^{10}M_{\odot} h^{-1}$ to calculate five independent dynamical state indicators. We experiment with recipes by combining two to four indicators for detecting specific merger stages like recent and ancient mergers. These recipes are made by plotting merging clusters and a control sample of relaxed clusters in multiple indicators parameter space, and then applying a rotation matrix method to derive the best way to separate mergers from the control sample. The success of the recipe is quantified using the success rate and the overlap percentage of the merger and control histograms along the newly rotated $x$-axis. This provides us with recipes using different numbers of combined indicators and for different merger stage. Among the recipes, the stellar mass gap and center offset are the first and second most dominant of the indicators, and using more indicators improves the effectiveness of the recipe. When applied to observations, our results show good agreement with literature values of cluster dynamical state.
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spellingShingle New observational recipes for measuring dynamical state of galaxy clusters
Kim, Hyowon
Smith, Rory
Ko, Jongwan
Shinn, Jong-Ho
Chun, Kyungwon
Shin, Jihye
Yoo, Jaewon
Astrophysics of Galaxies
During cluster assembly, a cluster's virialization process leaves behind signatures that can provide information on its dynamical state. However, no clear consensus yet exists on the best way to achieve this. Therefore, we attempt to derive improved recipes for classifying the dynamical state of clusters in observations using cosmological simulations. Cluster halo mass and their subhalos' mass are used to $ 10^{14}M_{\odot} h^{-1}$ and $10^{10}M_{\odot} h^{-1}$ to calculate five independent dynamical state indicators. We experiment with recipes by combining two to four indicators for detecting specific merger stages like recent and ancient mergers. These recipes are made by plotting merging clusters and a control sample of relaxed clusters in multiple indicators parameter space, and then applying a rotation matrix method to derive the best way to separate mergers from the control sample. The success of the recipe is quantified using the success rate and the overlap percentage of the merger and control histograms along the newly rotated $x$-axis. This provides us with recipes using different numbers of combined indicators and for different merger stage. Among the recipes, the stellar mass gap and center offset are the first and second most dominant of the indicators, and using more indicators improves the effectiveness of the recipe. When applied to observations, our results show good agreement with literature values of cluster dynamical state.
title New observational recipes for measuring dynamical state of galaxy clusters
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06245