Are Large X-ray Clusters at Thermal Equilibrium ?

Details Are Large X-ray Clusters at Thermal Equilibrium ? Are Large X-ray Clusters at Thermal Equilibrium ?

1997-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709183v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, LaTex2e, accepted for publication in ApJ also available at http://www-dapnia.cea.fr/Publications/Sap/sap97.html

Scientific paper

10.1086/305305

We simulate the formation of a large X-ray cluster using a fully 3D hydrodynamical code coupled to a Particle-Mesh scheme which models the dark matter component. We focus on a possible decoupling between electrons and ions temperatures. We then solve the energy transfer equations between electrons, ions and neutrals without assuming thermal equilibrium between the three gases (T_e <> T_i <> T_n). We solve self-consistently the chemical equations for an hydrogen/helium primordial plasma without assuming ionization-recombination equilibrium. We find that the electron temperature differs from the true dynamical temperature by 20% at the Virial radius of our simulated cluster. This could lead marginally to an underestimate of the total mass in the outer regions of large X-ray clusters.

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