Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-11-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in A&A. 16 pages, 18 figures
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20065125
To investigate the relationships between dynamical status and other important characteristics of galaxy clusters, we conducted a study of X-ray cluster morphology using a sample of 101 clusters at redshift z=0.05-1 taken from the Chandra archive. The X-ray morphology is quantitatively characterized by a series of objectively measured simple statistics of the X-ray surface brightness distribution, which are designed to be robust against variations of image quality caused by various exposure times and various cluster redshifts. We found: (1) The distorted and non-distorted clusters occupy well-defined loci in the L-T plane, demonstrating the measurements of the global luminosity and temperature for distorted clusters should be interpreted with caution, or alternatively, a rigorous morphological characterization is necessary when we use a sample of clusters with heterogeneous morphological characteristics to investigate the L-T or other related scaling relations. (2) Ellipticity and Off-center show no evolutionary effects between high and low redshift cluster subsets, while there may be a hint of weak evolutions for the Concentration and Asymmetry, in such a way that high-z clusters show more distorted morphology. (3) No correlation is found between X-ray morphology and X-ray luminosity or X-ray morphology and X-ray temperature of clusters, implying that interaction of clusters may not enhance or decrease the luminosity or temperature of clusters for extended period of time.
Boehringer Hans
Hashimoto Yasuhiro
Hasinger Guenther
Henry Patrick J.
Szokoly Gyula
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