The impact of mergers on relaxed X-ray clusters - II. Effects on global X-ray and SZ properties and their scaling relations

Details The impact of mergers on relaxed X-ray clusters - II. Effects on global X-ray and SZ properties and their scaling relations The impact of mergers on relaxed X-ray clusters - II. Effects on global X-ray and SZ properties and their scaling relations

2007-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701586v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 14 figures, submitted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12107.x

We use the suite of simulations presented in Poole et al (2006) to examine global X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) observables for systems of merging relaxed X-ray clusters. In all of the scaling relations generated from the properties we have studied, we observe a generic evolution (in good qualitative agreement with previous authors): a rapid transient roughly along the mass scaling relations, a subsequent slow drift across the scatter until virialization, followed by a slow evolution along and up the mass scaling relations as cooling recovers in the cluster cores. However, this drift is not sufficient to account for the observed scatter in the scaling relations. We also study the effects of mergers on several theoretical temperature measures of the intracluster medium: emission weighted measures (T_ew), the spectroscopic-like measure proposed by Mazzotta et al (2004; T_sl) and plasma model fits to the integrated spectrum of the system (T_spec). We find that T_sl tracks T_spec for the entire duration of our mergers, illustrating that it remains a good tool for observational comparison even for highly disturbed systems. Furthermore, the transient temperature increases produced during first and second pericentric passage are 15-40% larger for T_ew than for T_sl or T_spec. This suggests that the effects of transient temperature increases on sigma_8 and Omega_M derived by Randall et al (2002) are over estimated. Lastly, we examine the X-ray SZ proxy proposed by Kravtsov et al (2006) and find that the tight mass scaling relation they predict remains secure through the entire duration of a merger event, independent of projection effects.

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