# The Three Hundred Project: Ram pressure and gas content of haloes and subhaloes in the phase-space plane

## TL;DR

This study uses simulations of galaxy clusters to analyze how gas content in haloes relates to their phase-space position and the impact of ram pressure, revealing a strong correlation and potential causal link.

## Contribution

It provides new insights into the relationship between gas content, phase-space position, and ram pressure effects in galaxy cluster environments using a large suite of simulations.

## Key findings

- Halo gas content is tightly correlated with phase-space position.
- Steep decline in gas content at 1.5-2 R200 suggests an accretion shock.
- Subhaloes are more gas-poor, indicating ongoing pre-processing.

## Abstract

We use TheThreeHundred project, a suite of 324 resimulated massive galaxy clusters embedded in a broad range of environments, to investigate (i) how the gas content of surrounding haloes correlates with phase-space position at $z=0$, and (ii) to investigate the role that ram pressure plays in this correlation. By stacking all 324 normalised phase-space planes containing 169287 haloes and subhaloes, we show that the halo gas content is tightly correlated with phase-space position. At $\sim\,1.5-2\,\text{R}_{\text{200}}$ of the cluster dark matter halo, we find an extremely steep decline in the halo gas content of infalling haloes and subhaloes irrespective of cluster mass, possibly indicating the presence of an accretion shock. We also find that subhaloes are particularly gas-poor, even in the cluster outskirts, which could indicate active regions of ongoing pre-processing. By modelling the instantaneous ram pressure experienced by each halo and subhalo at $z=0$, we show that the ram pressure intensity is also well correlated with phase-space position, which is again irrespective of cluster mass. In fact, we show that regions in the phase-space plane with high differential velocity between a halo or subhalo and its local gas environment, are almost mutually exclusive with high halo gas content regions. This suggests a causal link between the gas content of objects and the instantaneous ram pressure they experience, where the dominant factor is the differential velocity.