Galaxy Clusters, a Novel Look at Diffuse Baryons Withstanding Dark Matter Gravity

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2009-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/0903.5224v1

Astrophys. J.698:580, 2009; Astrophys.J.698:580-593,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

13 pages, 8 figures, uses RevTeX4 + emulateapj.cls and apjfonts.sty. Typos corrected. Accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/698/1/580

[abridged] The equilibria of the intracluster plasma (ICP) and of the gravitationally dominant dark matter (DM) are governed by the hydrostatic and the Jeans equation. Jeans, with the DM `entropy' set to K ~ r^\alpha and \alpha ~ 1.25 - 1.3 applying from groups to rich clusters, yields our radial \alpha-profiles. In the ICP the entropy run k(r) is mainly shaped by shocks, as steadily set by supersonic accretion of gas at the cluster boundary, and intermittently driven from the center by merging events or by AGNs; the resulting equilibrium is described by the exact yet simple formalism constituting our ICP Supermodel. With a few parameters, this accurately represents the runs of density n(r) and temperature T(r) as required by recent X-ray data on surface brightness and spectroscopy for both cool core (CC) and non cool core (NCC) clusters; the former are marked by a middle temperature peak, whose location is predicted from rich clusters to groups. The Supermodel inversely links the inner runs of n(r) and T(r), and highlights their central scaling with entropy n_c ~ k_c^-1 and T_c ~ k_c^0.35, to yield radiative cooling times t_c ~ 0.3 (k_c/15 keV cm^2)^1.2 Gyr. We discuss the stability of the central values so focused either in CC and NCC clusters. From the Supermodel we derive as limiting cases the classic polytropic \beta-models, and the `mirror' model with T(r) ~ \sigma^2(r) suitable for NCC and CC clusters, respectively; these highlight how the ICP temperature T(r) tends to mirror the DM velocity dispersion \sigma^2(r) away from entropy injections. Finally, we discuss how the Supermodel connects information derived from X-ray and gravitational lensing observations.

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