Farahi, A, Evrard, AE, McCarthy, IG, Barnes, DJ and Kay, ST (2018) Localized massive halo properties in Bahamas and Macsis simulations: scalings, log-normality, and covariance. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478 (2). pp. 2618-2632. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

Using tens of thousands of halos realized in the BAHAMAS and MACSIS simulations produced with a consistent astrophysics treatment that includes AGN feedback, we validate a multi-property statistical model for the stellar and hot gas mass behavior in halos hosting groups and clusters of galaxies. The large sample size allows us to extract fine-scale mass--property relations (MPRs) by performing local linear regression (LLR) on individual halo stellar mass (${\rm M}_{\rm star}$) and hot gas mass (${\rm M}_{\rm gas}$) as a function of total halo mass (${\rm M}_{\rm halo}$). We find that: 1) both the local slope and variance of the MPRs run with mass (primarily) and redshift (secondarily); 2) the conditional likelihood, $p({\rm M}_{\rm star},\ {\rm M}_{\rm gas} | \ {\rm M}_{\rm halo}, z)$ is accurately described by a multivariate, log-normal distribution, and; 3) the covariance of ${\rm M}_{\rm star}$ and ${\rm M}_{\rm gas}$ at fixed ${\rm M}_{\rm halo}$ is generally negative, reflecting a partially closed baryon box model for high mass halos. We validate the analytical population model of Evrard et al. (2014), finding sub-percent accuracy in the log-mean halo mass selected at fixed property, $\langle \ln {\rm M}_{\rm halo} | {\rm M}_{\rm gas} \rangle$ or $\langle \ln {\rm M}_{\rm halo} | {\rm M}_{\rm star} \rangle$, when scale-dependent MPR parameters are employed. This work highlights the potential importance of allowing for running in the slope and scatter of MPRs when modeling cluster counts for cosmological studies. We tabulate LLR fit parameters as a function of halo mass at $z=0$, $0.5$ and 1 for two popular mass conventions.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article has been accepted for publication inMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2018The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Related URLs:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04922v1
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2018 12:13
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 10:20
DOI or ID number:	10.1093/mnras/sty1179
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/8946

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