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The splashback radius is one popular method to constrain the size of galaxy clusters. It is typically measured through the logarithmic derivative of the galaxy number density profile, since doing so is more observationally viable and computationally inexpensive compared to other methods. However, measuring the splashback radius through the galaxy number density has consistently produced smaller values of the splashback radius than those measured with dark matter density or other processes. Dynamical friction has been posited as one possible reason that splashback radii measured through galaxy number densities are reduced, since it decays the orbits of subhaloes within the halo, however, the effects of dynamical friction cannot be isolated within cosmological simulations. Here, we present idealized simulations starting with isolated galaxy clusters drawn from the IllustrisTNG cosmological simulation, where we isolate dynamical friction. We show that although dynamical friction can reduce measurements of the splashback radius, it does not have a significant effect on clusters with $M_\mathrm{200,mean} > 10^{14} \mathrm{M_\odot}$, and thus cannot completely account for previously meas

Author

O'Shea, Talia M.; Borrow, Josh; O'Neil, Stephanie; Vogelsberger, Mark

Published

2024

Language

EN