Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-02-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.342:1025,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in MNRAS: 18 pages, 13 figures. Paper with high-resolution figures available at http://www.daut.univ.trieste.it/borg
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06631.x
We discuss Tree+SPH simulations of galaxy clusters and groups, aimed at studying the effect of cooling and non-gravitational heating on observable properties of the ICM. We simulate at high resolution four halos,with masses in the range (0.2-4)10^{14}M_sol. We discuss the effects of using different SPH implementations and show that high resolution is mandatory to correctly follow the cooling pattern of the ICM. All of our heating schemes which correctly reproduce the X-ray scaling properties of clusters and groups do not succeed in reducing the fraction of collapsed gas below a level of 20 (30) per cent at the cluster (group) scale. Finally, gas compression in cooling cluster regions causes an increase of the temperature and a steepening of the temperature profiles, independent of the presence of non-gravitational heating processes. This is inconsistent with recent observational evidence for a decrease of gas temperature towards the center of relaxed clusters. Provided these discrepancies persist even for a more refined modeling of energy feedback, they may indicate that some basic physical process is still missing in hydrodynamical simulations.
Borgani Stefano
Matteucci Francesca
Menci Nicola
Murante Giuseppe
Springel Volker
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