Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-02-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to MNRAS letters (December 1997). 6 pages, 2 figures in MNRAS LaTex style. Minor revisions
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01738.x
We explore the relationship between the metallicity of the intracluster gas in clusters of galaxies, determined by X-ray spectroscopy, and the presence of cooling flows. Using ASCA spectra and ROSAT images, we demonstrate a clear segregation between the metallicities of clusters with and without cooling flows. On average, cooling-flow clusters have an emission-weighted metallicity a factor ~ 1.8 times higher than that of non-cooling flow systems. We suggest this to be due to the presence of metallicity gradients in the cooling flow clusters, coupled with the sharply peaked X-ray surface brightness profiles of these systems. Non-cooling flow clusters have much flatter X-ray surface brightness distributions and are thought to have undergone recent merger events which may have mixed the central high-metallicity gas with the surrounding less metal-rich material. We find no evidence for evolution in the emission-weighted metallicities of clusters within z~0.3.
Allen Steven W.
Fabian Andrea C.
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