Does the virial mass drive the intra-cluster light? The relationship between the ICL and M${}_{vir}$ from VEGAS

Abstract

In this Letter we revisit the relationship between the fraction of the intra-cluster light (ICL) and both the virial mass and the fraction of Early Type Galaxies in the host halo. This is based on a statistically significant and homogeneous sample of 22 groups and clusters of galaxies in the local Universe ($z\le 0.05$), obtained with the VST Early-type GAlaxy Survey (VEGAS). Taking advantage of the long integration time and large area of the VEGAS images, we are able to map the galaxy outskirts and ICL down to ${\mu }_g$ $\ge$ 29-30 mag/arcsec${}^2$ and out to hundreds of kpc. With this data-set, we have expanded the sample of ICL measurements, doubling the previous measures available from the literature for z $\le$ 0.05. The main result of this work is the lack of any significant trend between the fraction of ICL and the virial mass of the host environment, covering a wide range of virial masses ( $\sim$ $10^{12.5}\le M_{vir}\le 10^{15.5}{M}_{\odot }$), in agreement with some theoretical studies. Since the new data points are all derived with the same methodology and from the same observational setup, and all have comparable depth, the large observed scatter indicates an intrinsic variation in the ICL fraction.On the other hand, there is a weak relation between the fraction of ICL and the fraction of Early Type Galaxies in the host halo, where a larger fraction of ICL is found in groups and clusters of galaxies dominated by earlier morphological types, indicating a connection between the ICL and the dynamical state of the host system.

Letter to the editor, accepted for publication in A&A. 8 pages, 3 figures

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