Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-06-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
8 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS submitted
Scientific paper
We use the cosmological semi-analytic model (SAM) for galaxy formation presented in Paper I to study the metallicities and abundance ratios of the intracluster medium (ICM) within the hierarchical structure formation paradigm. By requiring a slightly flat IMF (x=1.15) and a two-population delay-time-distribution (DTD) for SN Ia explosions we found previously that this model is able to reproduce the abundance ratios and supernova rates of early-type galaxies in the local Universe. Predictions for elemental abundances in the ICM pose a further test of the model. We find that with the fiducial model from Paper I the overall metal content of the ICM is too low, although the abundance ratios are in good agreement with the data. However, we find that allowing a fraction of the metal-enriched material ejected by stars to be deposited directly into the hot ICM, instead of being deposited into the cold ISM, appears to be a plausible and physically-motivated solution.
Arrigoni Matías
Somerville Rachel S.
Trager Scott Charles
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