The Cluster-EAGLE project: a comparison of dynamical mass estimators using simulated clusters

Abstract

Forthcoming large-scale spectroscopic surveys will soon provide data on thousands of galaxy clusters. It is important that the systematics of the various mass estimation techniques are well understood and calibrated. We compare three different dynamical mass estimators using the C-EAGLE galaxy clusters, a set of high resolution simulations with resolved galaxies a median total mass, $M_{200c}=10^{14.7}{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$. We quantify the bias and scatter of the Jeans, virial, and caustic mass estimators using all galaxies with a stellar mass $M_{\ast }>10^9{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$, both in the ideal 3D case and in the more realistic projected case. On average we find our mass estimates are unbiased, though relative to the true mass within $r_{200c}$ the scatter is large with a range of $0.09$ - $0.15$ dex. We see a slight increase in the scatter when projecting the clusters. Selecting galaxies using the same criteria, we find no significant difference in the mass bias or scatter when comparing results from hydrodynamical and dark matter only simulations. However, selecting galaxies by stellar mass reduces the bias compared to selecting by total mass. Comparing X-ray derived hydrostatic and dynamical masses, the former are $\sim 30$ per cent lower. We find a slight dependence between substructure, measured using two different metrics, and mass bias. In conclusion, we find that dynamical mass estimators, when averaged together, are unbiased with a scatter of $0.11\pm 0.02$ dex when including interloper galaxies and with no prior knowledge of $r_{200c}$.

arXiv commentAccepted in MNRAS, 14 figures in main text

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