Yen-Ting Lin, S. Adam Stanford, Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Alexey Vikhlinin, Ben J. Maughan, Andrey Kravtsov
We study the relationship between two major baryonic components in galaxy
clusters, namely the stars in galaxies, and the ionized gas in the intracluster
medium (ICM), using 94 clusters that span the redshift range 0-0.6. Accurately
measured total and ICM masses from Chandra observations, and stellar masses
derived from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Two-Micron All-Sky
Survey allow us to trace the evolution of cluster baryon content in a
self-consistent fashion. We find that, within r_{500}, the evolution of the ICM
mass--total mass relation is consistent with the expectation of self-similar
model, while there is no evidence for redshift evolution in the stellar
mass--total mass relation. This suggests that the stellar mass and ICM mass in
the inner parts of clusters evolve differently.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1705
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