The IntraCluster Medium: An Invariant Stellar IMF

Details The IntraCluster Medium: An Invariant Stellar IMF The IntraCluster Medium: An Invariant Stellar IMF

1997-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9710195v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, LateX (aaspp4 macro), including one postscript figure. Accepted, ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/311021

Evidence supporting the hypothesis of an invariant stellar Initial Mass Function is strong and varied. The intra-cluster medium in rich clusters of galaxies is one of the few contrary locations where recent interpretations of the chemical abundances have favoured an IMF that is biased towards massive stars, compared to the `normal' IMF. This interpretation hinges upon the neglect of Type Ia supernovae to the ICM enrichment, and a particular choice of the nucleosynthesis yields of Type II supernovae. We demonstrate here that when one adopts yields determined empirically from observations of Galactic stars, rather than the uncertain model yields, a self-consistent picture may be obtained with an invariant stellar IMF, and about half of the iron in the ICM being produced by Type Ia supernovae.

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