Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-10-26
Astron.Lett. 29 (2003) 791
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
29 pages, 12 figures, Astronomy Letters 2003, v.29, p.791
Scientific paper
10.1134/1.1631412
Large-scale bulk motions and hydrodynamic turbulence in the intergalactic gas inside clusters of galaxies significantly broaden X-ray emission lines. For lines of heavy ions (primarily helium-like and hydrogen-like iron ions), the hydrodynamic broadening is significantly larger than the thermal broadening. Since cluster of galaxies have a negligible optical depth for resonant scattering in forbidden and intercombination lines of these ions, these lines are not additionally broadened. At the same time, they are very intense, which allows deviations of the spectrum from the Gaussian spectrum in the line wings to be investigated. The line shape becomes an important indicator of bulk hydrodynamic processes because the cryogenic detectors of new generation of X-ray observatories will have a high energy resolution (from 5 eV for ASTRO-E2 to 1-2 eV for Constellation-X and XEUS). We use the spectral representation of a Kolmogorov cascade in the inertial range to calculate the characteristic shapes of X-ray lines. Significant deviations in the line profiles from the Gaussian profile (shape asymmetry, additional peaks, sharp breaks in the exponential tails) are expected for large-scale turbulence. The kinematic SZ effect and the X-ray line profile carry different information about the hydrodynamic velocity distribution in clusters of galaxies and complement each other, allowing the redshift, the peculiar velocity of the cluster, and the bulk velocity dispersion to be measured and separated
Inogamov N. A.
Sunyaev Rashid A.
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