The Three Hundred project: galaxy groups do not survive cluster infall
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UAM. Departamento de Física TeóricaPublisher
Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical SocietyDate
2022-03-29Citation
10.1093/mnras/stac2809
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 518.1 (2023): 1316-1334
ISSN
0035-8711 (print); 1365-2966 (online)DOI
10.1093/mnras/stac2809Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/734374/EU//LACEGALEditor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2809Subjects
Methods: Numerical; Galaxies: Clusters; Galaxies: General; Galaxies: Groups; FísicaRights
© 2022 The Author(s)Abstract
Galaxy clusters grow by accreting galaxies as individual objects, or as members of a galaxy group. These groups can strongly
impact galaxy evolution, stripping the gas from galaxies, and enhancing the rate of galaxy mergers. However, it is not clear how
the dynamics and structure of groups are affected when they interact with a large cluster, or whether all group members necessarily
experience the same evolutionary processes. Using data from THE THREE HUNDRED project, a suite of 324 hydrodynamical
resimulations of large galaxy clusters, we study the properties of 1340 groups passing through a cluster. We find that half of
group galaxies become gravitationally unbound from the group by the first pericentre, typically just 0.5–1 Gyr after cluster entry.
Most groups quickly mix with the cluster satellite population; only 8 per cent of infalling group haloes later leave the cluster,
although for nearly half of these, all of their galaxies have become unbound, tidally disrupted or merged into the central by this
stage. The position of galaxies in group-centric phase space is also important – only galaxies near the centre of a group (r
0.7R200) remain bound once a group is inside a cluster, and slow-moving galaxies in the group centre are likely to be tidally
disrupted, or merge with another galaxy. This work will help future observational studies to constrain the environmental histories
of group galaxies. For example, groups observed inside or nearby to clusters have likely approached very recently, meaning that
their galaxies will not have experienced a cluster environment before
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Google Scholar:Haggar, Roan
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Kuchner, Ulrike
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Gray, Meghan E.
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Pearce, Frazer R.
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Knebe, Alexander
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Yepes Alonso, Gustavo
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Cui, Weiguang
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