The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: stellar mass growth in massive galaxy clusters from DR5 over the past 7 billion years
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| author | Ragavan, Damien C. Sureshkumar, Unnikrishnan Hilton, Matt Hughes, John P. Moodley, Kavilan Mroczkowski, Tony Partridge, Bruce Salatino, Maria Sifón, Cristóbal Vavagiakis, Eve M. Wollack, Edward J. |
| author_facet | Ragavan, Damien C. Sureshkumar, Unnikrishnan Hilton, Matt Hughes, John P. Moodley, Kavilan Mroczkowski, Tony Partridge, Bruce Salatino, Maria Sifón, Cristóbal Vavagiakis, Eve M. Wollack, Edward J. |
| contents | We probe the stellar mass growth in a sample of 568 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters with masses greater than $2.9 \times 10^{14} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ and redshifts in the range $0.2 < z < 0.8$, drawn from the fifth data release of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT DR5). By utilising deep photometry from the tenth data release of the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS DR10), we construct redshift- and cluster mass-binned composite cluster stellar mass functions (SMFs), down to $M_* = 10^{9.5} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$. This work presents the first analysis of the cluster SMF for this cluster sample at this epoch. We find that the characteristic stellar mass ($M^*$) of the cluster SMF evolves marginally from $0.55 \leq z < 0.8$, with most of the measurable growth occurring at $ 0.2 < z < 0.55$. This suggests that most of the massive galaxy population in clusters ($M_* \gtrsim 10^{10.75} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$) is largely established by $z \sim 0.8$, with subsequent evolution driven by late-time assembly processes. The low-mass slope ($α$) of the composite cluster SMF is flat at high-$z$ ($z \sim 0.8$) but steepens at $z < 0.55$, suggesting an abundance of massive galaxies in high-$z$ clusters compared to low-$z$ clusters. We measure the evolution of cluster stellar mass fractions contained within galaxies with $M_* > 10^{9.5} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ between $ 0.2 < z < 0.8$, and find evidence of significant growth, by a factor of $2.5$, after accounting for the growth in cluster halo mass over this epoch. |
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| spellingShingle | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: stellar mass growth in massive galaxy clusters from DR5 over the past 7 billion years Ragavan, Damien C. Sureshkumar, Unnikrishnan Hilton, Matt Hughes, John P. Moodley, Kavilan Mroczkowski, Tony Partridge, Bruce Salatino, Maria Sifón, Cristóbal Vavagiakis, Eve M. Wollack, Edward J. Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We probe the stellar mass growth in a sample of 568 Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) selected galaxy clusters with masses greater than $2.9 \times 10^{14} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ and redshifts in the range $0.2 < z < 0.8$, drawn from the fifth data release of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT DR5). By utilising deep photometry from the tenth data release of the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS DR10), we construct redshift- and cluster mass-binned composite cluster stellar mass functions (SMFs), down to $M_* = 10^{9.5} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$. This work presents the first analysis of the cluster SMF for this cluster sample at this epoch. We find that the characteristic stellar mass ($M^*$) of the cluster SMF evolves marginally from $0.55 \leq z < 0.8$, with most of the measurable growth occurring at $ 0.2 < z < 0.55$. This suggests that most of the massive galaxy population in clusters ($M_* \gtrsim 10^{10.75} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$) is largely established by $z \sim 0.8$, with subsequent evolution driven by late-time assembly processes. The low-mass slope ($α$) of the composite cluster SMF is flat at high-$z$ ($z \sim 0.8$) but steepens at $z < 0.55$, suggesting an abundance of massive galaxies in high-$z$ clusters compared to low-$z$ clusters. We measure the evolution of cluster stellar mass fractions contained within galaxies with $M_* > 10^{9.5} \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ between $ 0.2 < z < 0.8$, and find evidence of significant growth, by a factor of $2.5$, after accounting for the growth in cluster halo mass over this epoch. |
| title | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: stellar mass growth in massive galaxy clusters from DR5 over the past 7 billion years |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00975 |