Note on a polytropic beta-model to fit the X-ray surface brightness of clusters of galaxies

Details Note on a polytropic beta-model to fit the X-ray surface brightness of clusters of galaxies Note on a polytropic beta-model to fit the X-ray surface brightness of clusters of galaxies

1999-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9908252v2

MNRAS, 311, 313

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, references added, version printed on MNRAS. Also available at http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~settori/paper.html

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03037.x

In this note, I suggest that the beta-model used to fit the X-ray surface brightness profiles of extended sources, like groups and clusters of galaxies, has to be corrected when the counts are collected in a wide energy band comparable to the mean temperature of the source and a significant gradient in the gas temperature is observed. I present a revised version of the beta-model for the X-ray brightness that applies to a intracluster gas with temperature and density related by a polytropic equation and extends the standard version that is strictly valid for an isothermal gas. Given a temperature gradient observed through an energy window of 1--10 keV typical for the new generation of X-ray observatories, the beta parameter can change systematically up to 20 per cent from the value obtained under isothermal assumption, i.e. by an amount larger that any statistical uncertainty obtained from the present data. Within the virial regions of typical clusters of galaxies, these systematic corrections affect the total gravitating mass estimate by 5--10 per cent, the gas mass by 10--30 per cent and the gas fraction value up to 50 per cent, when compared to the measurements obtained under the isothermal assumption.

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