Testing the Large-Scale Environments of Cool-core and Noncool-core Clusters with Clustering Bias

Abstract

There are well-observed differences between cool-core (CC) and non-cool-core (NCC) clusters, but the origin of this distinction is still largely unknown. Competing theories can be divided into internal (inside-out), in which internal physical processes transform or maintain the NCC phase, and external (outside-in), in which the cluster type is determined by its initial conditions, which in turn lead to different formation histories (i.e., assembly bias). We propose a new method that uses the relative assembly bias of CC to NCC clusters, as determined via the two-point cluster-galaxy cross-correlation function (CCF), to test whether formation history plays a role in determining their nature. We apply our method to 48 ACCEPT clusters, which have well resolved central entropies, and cross-correlate with the SDSS-III/BOSS LOWZ galaxy catalog. We find that the relative bias of NCC over CC clusters is $b=1.42\pm 0.35$ ($1.6\sigma$ different from unity). Our measurement is limited by the small number of clusters with core entropy information within the BOSS footprint, 14 CC and 34 NCC. Future compilations of X-ray cluster samples, combined with deep all-sky redshift surveys, will be able to better constrain the relative assembly bias of CC and NCC clusters and determine the origin of the bimodality.

arXiv comment8 pages, 7 figures, replaced with ApJ published version; figure added to address referee's comments

References in corpus (73)

• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
• Large scale bias and the peak background split
• The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III
• SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
• The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III
• An analytic model for the spatial clustering of dark matter haloes
• Heating Hot Atmospheres with Active Galactic Nuclei
• Spectroscopic Target Selection for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Luminous Red Galaxy Sample
• Dark matter halo concentrations in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe year 5 cosmology
• Tracing cosmic evolution with clusters of galaxies
• The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data
• redMaPPer I: Algorithm and SDSS DR8 Catalog
• Extragalactic Science, Cosmology and Galactic Archaeology with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS)
• The age dependence of halo clustering
• Mechanical Feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
• The MCXC: a Meta-Catalogue of X-ray detected Clusters of galaxies
• The Dependence of Halo Clustering on Halo Formation History, Concentration, and Occupation
• Intracluster Medium Entropy Profiles for a Chandra Archival Sample of Galaxy Clusters
• What is a Cool-Core Cluster? A Detailed Analysis of the Cores of the X-ray Flux-Limited HIFLUGCS Cluster Sample
• Statistical Analysis of Galaxy Surveys - I. Robust error estimation for 2-point clustering statistics
• Assembly bias in the clustering of dark matter haloes
• The redMaPPer Galaxy Cluster Catalog From DES Science Verification Data
• Halo Assembly Bias in Hierarchical Structure Formation
• The Excursion Set Theory of Halo Mass Functions, Halo Clustering, and Halo Growth
• The MICE Grand Challenge Lightcone Simulation I: Dark matter clustering
• Gas expulsion by quasar-driven winds as a solution to the over-cooling problem in galaxy groups and clusters
• Raining on black holes and massive galaxies: the top-down multiphase condensation model
• Cool Core Clusters from Cosmological Simulations
• Simulations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Power Spectrum with AGN Feedback
• Cooling, AGN Feedback and Star Formation in Simulated Cool-Core Galaxy Clusters
• Hydrodynamical simulations of cluster formation with central AGN heating
• A refined sub-grid model for black hole accretion and AGN feedback in large cosmological simulations
• The MICE Grand Challenge Lightcone Simulation III: Galaxy lensing mocks from all-sky lensing maps
• The MICE Grand Challenge Lightcone Simulation II: Halo and Galaxy catalogues
• Mass Function Predictions Beyond LCDM
• The dependence of dark halo clustering on the formation epoch and the concentration parameter
• Cold, clumpy accretion onto an active supermassive black hole
• Detection of the Splashback Radius and Halo Assembly bias of Massive Galaxy Clusters
• The Dance of Heating and Cooling in Galaxy Clusters: 3D Simulations of Self-Regulated AGN Outflows
• Cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters
• Galaxy clustering in the CFHTLS-Wide: the changing relationship between galaxies and haloes since z ~ 1.2
• Jet-regulated cooling catastrophe
• An algorithm to build mock galaxy catalogues using MICE simulations
• The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the correlation function of LOWZ and CMASS galaxies in Data Release 12
• X-ray cavities in a sample of 83 SPT-selected clusters of galaxies: Tracing the evolution of AGN feedback in clusters of galaxies out to z=1.2
• A statistically-selected Chandra sample of 20 galaxy clusters -- I. Temperature and cooling time profiles
• Is the gas in cooling-flows multi-phase?
• Modeling AGN Feedback in Cool-Core Clusters: The Balance between Heating and Cooling
• The answer is blowing in the wind: Simulating the interaction of jets with dynamic cluster atmospheres
• Cooling Time, Freefall Time, and Precipitation in the Cores of ACCEPT Galaxy Clusters
• The relation between gas density and velocity power spectra in galaxy clusters: high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations and the role of conduction
• Evidence of Halo Assembly Bias in Massive Clusters
• Environmental Dependence of Cold Dark Matter Halo Formation
• The Clustering of Massive Halos
• On Detecting Halo Assembly Bias with Galaxy Populations
• The assembly bias of dark matter haloes to higher orders
• A statistically-selected Chandra sample of 20 galaxy clusters -- II. Gas properties and cool-core/non-cool core bimodality
• The stripping of a galaxy group diving into the massive cluster A2142
• Observational Evidence for an Age Dependence of Halo Bias
• Can AGN feedback break the self-similarity of galaxies, groups, and clusters?
• Cool core remnants in galaxy clusters
• The formation of the brightest cluster galaxies in cosmological simulations: the case for AGN feedback
• Detection of galaxy assembly bias
• Measuring the growth of matter fluctuations with third-order galaxy correlations
• Bandpass Dependence of X-ray Temperatures in Galaxy Clusters
• Thermo-dynamic and chemical properties of the Intra-Cluster Medium
• Back and forth from cool core to non-cool core: clues from radio-halos
• Shaping the X-ray spectrum of galaxy clusters with AGN feedback and turbulence
• QSO-LRG 2-Point Cross-Correlation Function and Redshift-Space Distorions
• On the cross-correlation of sub-mm sources and optically-selected galaxies
• The nature of assembly bias - III. Observational properties
• The clustering amplitude of X-ray selected AGN at z=0.8: Evidence for a negative dependence on accretion luminosity
• A group-galaxy cross-correlation function analysis in zCOSMOS

Cited by in corpus (5)

• The Remarkable Similarity of Massive Galaxy Clusters From z~0 to z~1.9
• The Megaparsec-scale Gas-sloshing Spiral in the Remnant Cool Core Cluster Abell 1763
• A Massive Cluster at z = 0.288 Caught in the Process of Formation: The Case of Abell 959
• The evolving cluster cores: Putting together the pieces of the puzzle
• On the Assembly Bias of Cool Core Clusters Traced by H$\alpha$ Nebulae