The Observed Growth of Massive Galaxy Clusters II: X-ray Scaling Relations

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2009-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/0909.3099v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.406:1773-1795,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

25 pages, 7 figures, 14 tables. v3: final version (typographic corrections). Results can be downloaded at https://www.stanfo

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(Abridged) This is the second in a series of papers in which we derive simultaneous constraints on cosmology and X-ray scaling relations using observations of massive, X-ray flux-selected galaxy clusters. The data set consists of 238 clusters drawn from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey with 0.1-2.4 keV luminosities >2.5e44 erg/second, and incorporates extensive follow-up observations using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Our analysis accounts self-consistently for all selection effects, covariances and systematic uncertainties. Here we describe the reduction of the follow-up X-ray observations, present results on the cluster scaling relations, and discuss their implications. Our constraints on the luminosity-mass and temperature-mass relations, measured within r_500, lead to three important results. First, the data support the conclusion that excess heating of the intracluster medium has altered its thermodynamic state from that expected in a simple, gravitationally dominated system; however, this excess heating is primarily limited to the central regions of clusters (r<0.15r_500). Second, the intrinsic scatter in the center-excised luminosity-mass relation is remarkably small, being undetected at the <10% level in current data; for the hot, massive clusters under investigation, this scatter is smaller than in either the temperature-mass or Y_X-mass relations (10-15%). Third, the evolution with redshift of the scaling relations is consistent with the predictions of simple, self-similar models of gravitational collapse, indicating that the mechanism responsible for heating the central regions of clusters was in operation before redshift 0.5 (the limit of our data) and that its effects on global cluster properties have not evolved strongly since then.

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