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28 March 2024
 
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CAIRNS: The Cluster And Infall Region Nearby Survey II. Environmental Dependence of Infrared Mass-to-Light Ratios
K. Rines ; M.J. Geller ; A. Diaferio ; M.J. Kurtz ; T.H. Jarrett ;
Date 10 Feb 2004
Journal Astron.J. 128 (2004) 1078
Subject astro-ph
AbstractCAIRNS (Cluster And Infall Region Nearby Survey) is a spectroscopic survey of the infall regions surrounding nine nearby rich clusters of galaxies. In Paper I, we used redshifts within $sim 10Mpc$ of the centers of the clusters to determine the mass profiles of the clusters based on the phase space distribution of the galaxies. Here, we use 2MASS photometry and an additional cziinew redshifts to investigate the environmental dependence of near-infrared mass-to-light ratios. In the virial regions, the halo occupation function is non-linear; the number of bright galaxies per halo increases more slowly than the mass of the halo. On larger scales, the light contained in galaxies is less clustered than the mass in rich clusters. Specifically, the mass-to-light ratio inside the virial radius is a factor of $1.8pm0.3$ larger than that outside the virial radius. This difference could result from changing fractions of baryonic to total matter or from variations in the efficiency of galaxy formation or disruption with environment. The average mass-to-light ratio $M/L_K = 53pm 5 h$ implies $Omega_m = 0.18pm 0.03$ (statistical) using the luminosity density based on 2dFGRS data. These results are difficult to reconcile with independent methods which suggest higher $Omega_m$. Reconciling these values by invoking bias requires that the typical value of $M/L_K$ changes significantly at densities of $lesssim3 ho_c$.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0402242
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