Chemical abundances in galaxy clusters - A theoretical approach

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Aug 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988a%26a...202...21m&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 202, no. 1-2, Aug. 1988, p. 21-26.

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Abundance, Elliptical Galaxies, Galactic Clusters, Galactic Evolution, Chemical Evolution, Computational Astrophysics, Galactic Mass, Heavy Elements, Mass Spectra, Spectral Line Width

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Models of chemical evolution of elliptical galaxies with galactic winds powered by supernova explosions (types I and II) and predicting the evolutionary paths of abundances of some heavy elements (24Mg, 28Si, and 56Fe), are used to estimate the total masses of these elements as well as the total gas mass which can be ejected into the intergalactic medium, as functions of the initial galactic mass. These quantities have been computed by integrating the contribution of each single galaxy over the galactic mass distribution inside a cluster. The derived abundances of Si and Fe in the cluster medium are in very good agreement with those estimated from X-ray emission of intergalactic gas, as long as it is assumed that intergalactic gas is mainly primordial gas.

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