How the Coherent Tides Obstruct the Radial Infalls of Satellite Galaxies onto Clusters
arXiv:1901.03994 · doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab0287
Abstract
A direct numerical evidence for the obstructing effect of the coherent tides on the infall-zone satellites around the cluster halos is presented. Analyzing the numerical data from a high-resolution N-body simulation, we calculate the mean fractions of the radial and tangential velocities of the infall-zone satellites around the cluster halos and investigate if and how they depend on the tidal coherence defined as the alignments between the major principal axes of the local tidal fields smoothed on the linear and nonlinear scales. It is found that the infall-zone satellites located in the regions with higher tidal coherence have significantly smaller and larger mean fractions of the radial and tangential velocities, respectively, which indicates that the radial infall of satellites onto host clusters are obstructed by the coherent tides. We also show that those satellites separated by shorter distances from the host clusters, having lower-masses, and embedded in the anisotropic large-scale environments like filaments and sheets, are more vulnerable to the obstructing effect of the coherent tides.
arXiv commentAccepted for publication in ApJL, revised version, 11 figures, 1 table
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