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Abstract
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey optical photometry has been used to study the galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) of 14 X-ray selected clusters from the XMM Large Scale Survey (XMM-LSS) survey. These are mostly groups and poor clusters, with masses (M-500) in the range 0.6 to 19 x 1013 M-circle dot and redshifts 0.05 <z <0.61. Hence, these are some of the highest redshift X-ray selected groups to have been studied. Lower and upper colour cuts were used to determine cluster members. We derive individual LFs for all clusters as well as redshift-stacked and temperature-stacked LFs in three filters, g', r' and z', down to M = -14.5. All LFs were fitted by Schechter functions which constrained the faint-end slope, alpha, but did not always fit well to the bright end. Derived values of alpha ranged from -1.03 to as steep as -2.1. We find no evidence for upturns at faint magnitudes. Evolution in alpha was apparent in all bands: it becomes shallower with increasing redshift; for example, in the z' band it flattened from -1.75 at low redshift to -1.22 in the redshift range z = 0.43-0.61. Eight of our systems lie at z similar to 0.3, and we combine these to generate a galaxy LF in three colours for X-ray selected groups and poor clusters at redshift 0.3. We find that at z similar to 0.3 alpha is steeper (-1.67) in the green (g') band than it is (-1.30) in the red (z') band. This colour trend disappears at low redshift, which we attribute to reddening of faint blue galaxies from z similar to 0.3 to 0. We also calculated the total optical luminosity and found it to correlate strongly with X-ray luminosity (L-X proportional to L2.1(OPT)), and also with ICM temperature (L-OPT proportional to T1.62), consistent with expectations for self-similar clusters with constant mass-to-light ratio. We did not find any convincing correlation of Schechter parameters with mean cluster temperature.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 941-962 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices |
Volume | 401 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Jan 2010 |
Keywords
- galaxies: clusters: general
- galaxies: structure
- galaxies: luminosity function
- galaxies: evolution
- mass function
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Birmingham Astrophysics - Rolling Grant 2007-2012
Ponman, T., Cruise, M., Freise, A., Raychaudhury, S., Smith, G., Speake, C., Stevens, I. & Vecchio, A.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/04/07 → 31/03/12
Project: Research Councils