Simulated X-ray galaxy clusters at the virial radius: slopes of the gas density, temperature and surface brightness profiles

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2006-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609824v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.373:1339-1350,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 6 figures; added reference and other minor changes

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11143.x

Using a set of hydrodynamical simulations of 9 galaxy clusters with masses in the range 1.5 10^{14} M_sun < M_vir < 3.4 10^{15} M_sun, we have studied the density, temperature and X-ray surface brightness profiles of the intracluster medium in the regions around the virial radius. We have analyzed the profiles in the radial range well above the cluster core, the physics of which are still unclear and matter of tension between simulated and observed properties, and up to the virial radius and beyond, where present observations are unable to provide any constraints. We have modeled the radial profiles between 0.3 R_200 and 3 R_200 with power laws with one index, two indexes and a rolling index. The simulated temperature and [0.5-2] keV surface brightness profiles well reproduce the observed behaviours outside the core. The shape of all these profiles in the radial range considered depends mainly on the activity of the gravitational collapse, with no significant difference among models including extraphysics. The profiles steepen in the outskirts, with the slope of the power-law fit that changes from -2.5 to -3.4 in the gas density, from -0.5 to -1.8 in the gas temperature, and from -3.5 to -5.0 in the X-ray soft surface brightness. We predict that the gas density, temperature and [0.5-2] keV surface brightness values at R_200 are, on average, 0.05, 0.60, 0.008 times the measured values at 0.3 R_200. At 2 R_200, these values decrease by an order of magnitude in the gas density and surface brightness, by a factor of 2 in the temperature, putting stringent limits on the detectable properties of the intracluster-medium (ICM) in the virial regions.

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