Baryon content of galaxy groups Ming Sun (University of Virginia) ‏ M. Voit, M. Donahue (MSU) A. Vikhlinin, W. Forman, C. Jones (CfA) N. Sehgal (KIPAC) C. Sarazin (Virginia)

Groups? Why do we care? M ʘ M ʘ group cluster Galaxy groups are the smallest halos where the bulk of baryons are accounted for. Mass function group cluster Detected baryons (McGaugh )‏

Groups are : 1) Ideal systems to study baryonic physics (e.g., SN winds, cooling, AGN heating), which dominates the systematic uncertainties for cluster cosmology. 2)The same baryonic physics is important to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies (most galaxies are in groups). Stellar fraction (McGaugh )

Are groups gas / baryon poor ? Are groups metal poor ?

Sun ; Vikhlinin , Chandra samples (r 2500 ~ 1/3 r vir, r 500 ~ 2/3 r vir ) Groups are gas poor around the center cosmic baryon fraction

L X - T Groups (Sun+09), Chandra + REXCESS (Pratt+09, +10), XMM (both samples also agree well on other scaling relations) Bolometric < r 500 Bolometric (0.15 r 500, r 500 )

Are groups gas poor at large radii ? Vikhlinin + 09; REXCESS (Pratt + 09); Sun + 09

Humphrey et al. 2011, Chandra Deep observations are required for gas at large radii ! L X, 2500 / L X, 500 ~ 4/5 vs. M gas, 2500 / M gas, 500 ~ 1/ M 2500 or M 500 (M ʘ )

Pressure content in groups Sun, Sehgal The key to understand the SZ power spectrum (from SPT and ACT) as ~ half of the SZ power at l = 3000 comes from low-mass systems ! Low SZ power measured from SPT ( ~50% of expected for  8 = 0.8) Lueker and Shirokoff

What about baryon content in groups? 1) f gas  at r > r 500 (NFW, β=0.5, ~ 80% increase from r 500 to r 101 ) (but, slope change? mass bias? sample bias? clumping?) 2) Intragroup light (IGL) ? cosmic baryon fraction (Lin+03; Gonzalez+07; Giodini+09 Sun+09; Vikhlinin+09) stars gas + stars

Are groups gas / baryon poor ? Are groups metal poor ?

Baumgartner et al Are groups metal (iron) poor ? Emission-weighted (ASCA) M gas -weighted Sun et al (also see Rasmussen & Ponman, 2009; Bregman )

Why ? metal loss at early time (e.g., SN winds, Quasars) late time (e.g., radio AGN) Group gas is also iron poor around the center If all metals produced were kept … abundance of clusters

Looking forward … 1) Hydrostatic equilibrium mass to be calibrated 2) Selection bias ? --- (try different samples) 3) Extending to lower masses ! (low nH and back.) 4) Go beyond r 500 (e.g., stacking) 5) More theory / simulation work

Conclusions: 1) Groups are gas poor around the center (e.g., < 1/3 r vir ) but not necessarily gas poor at large radii. The gas distribution has important implications on e.g., feedback and SZ power spectrum. 2) Groups have a higher SF efficiency than clusters but the group stellar fraction (including IGL) needs to be better constrained. 3) Groups are also metal (iron) poor around the center (e.g., < 1/3 r vir ).

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Entropy scaling relations ( Sun et al. 2009, 43 groups; Vikhlinin et al. 2009, 14 clu.; Pratt et al. 2010, 31 clu.)‏

Halo mass Stellar mass / Halo mass Halo Stellar Fraction

Sehgal et al Arnaud et al (REXCESS) Battaglia et al Shaw et al Trac et al Sun, Sehgal et al. 2011

Why are groups metal poor? Systematic issues: 1) “iron bias” (Buote 2000) for group cool cores, but NOT the reason here 2) “inverse iron bias” (Rasia et al. 2008) for 2 – 3 keV systems, up to 40% Physical reasons: 1) re-accretion of pristine gas (e.g., Renzini 1997) ? 2) metal loss at early times (SN winds)? related to pre-heating (see Rasmussen & Ponman 2009) 3) late-stage metal loss (AGN? Kirkpatrick et al.; Simionescu, Werner et al.)

1) No pretty Chandra images 2) Hydrostatic equilibrium mass 3) Selection bias 4) Correlated errors

Are groups gas poor at large radii ? Vikhlinin + 09; REXCESS (Pratt + 09); Sun + r 500

L X - T Groups (Sun+09), Chandra + REXCESS (Pratt+09, +10), XMM Bolometric < r keV < r 500 Bolometric (0.15 r 500, r 500 ) keV (0.15 r 500, r 500 )