Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-07
Astrophys.J.640:673-690,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
39 pages, 37 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Version with high-quality color figures at http://cosmic.riken.jp/ota
Scientific paper
10.1086/500294
An observational approach is presented to constrain the global structure and evolution of the intracluster medium based on the ROSAT and ASCA distant cluster sample. From statistical analysis of the gas density profile and the connection to the LX-T relation under the beta-model, the scaled gas profile is nearly universal for the outer region and the LX(>0.2r500) is tightly related to the temperature through T^3 rather than T^2. On the other hand, a large density scatter exists in the core region and there is clearly a deviation from the self-similar scaling for clusters with a small core size. A direct link between the core size and the radiative cooling timescale suggest that t_cool is a parameter to control the gas structure and the appearance of small cores in regular clusters may be much connected with the thermal evolution. We derive the luminosity-ambient temperature (T') relation, assuming the universal temperature profile to find the dispersion around the relation significantly decreases: L_1keV is almost constant for a wide range of t_cool. We further examined the LX-Tbeta and LX-T'beta relations and showed a trend that merging clusters segregate from the regular clusters on the planes. A good correlation between t_cool and the X-ray morphology on the L_1keV-t_cool/t_age plane leads us to define three phases according to the different level of cooling, and draw a phenomenological picture: after a cluster collapses and t_cool falls below t_age, the core cools radiatively with quasi-hydrostatic balancing in the gravitational potential, and the central density gradually becomes higher to evolve from an outer-core-dominant cluster to inner-core-dominant cluster.
Kitayama Tetsu
Masai Kuniaki
Mitsuda Kazuhisa
Ota Naomi
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