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Ram-Pressure Stripping of Galaxies in High-Redshift Clusters and Influence of ICM Heating

arXiv:astro-ph/0012252 · doi:10.1086/319811

Abstract

We have investigated the ram-pressure stripping of disk galaxies in clusters at various redshifts and in cluster progenitors; the clusters grow up on a hierarchical clustering scenario. We consider a radially infalling galaxy whose initial position and velocity are given by a spherical collapse model of structure formation. Moreover, since observations show that the intracluster medium (ICM) of nearby clusters is non-gravitationally heated, we study the effect of the non-gravitational heating on the ram-pressure stripping. For a given redshift, we find that ram-pressure stripping has more influence on galaxies in more massive clusters. On the other hand, for a given mass, it has more influence on galaxies in the clusters at higher redshifts. In particular, we predict that in rich clusters at z ~> 1, most of the galaxies are affected by the ram-pressure stripping. While the non-gravitational heating significantly reduces the influence of ram-pressure stripping on galaxies in clusters with mass smaller than 1-5 10^13 M_sun, it does not affect the influence in richer clusters. If the ICM is heated non-gravitationally at z>>1, ram-pressure stripping does not occur at z ~ 1-2 in the progenitors of clusters observed at 0 ~< z ~< 0.5, because the heat makes the ICM fraction of the cluster progenitors small. On the other hand, if the ICM is heated non-gravitationally at z ~ 0 for the first time, the ram-pressure stripping occurs even at z ~ 3. We compare the results with the observations of galaxies in clusters at various redshifts.

22 pages, 7 figures, to be published in ApJ

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