Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-10-01
Astron.Lett.29:783-790,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 5 figures, Astronomy Letters, accepted
Scientific paper
10.1134/1.1631411
Cooling flows, cluster mergers and motions of galaxies through the cluster gas with supersonic and sonic velocities must lead to large scale motions of the intracluster medium (ICM). A high-resolution numerical simulation of X-ray cluster formation by Norman and Bryan predicts cluster-wide turbulence with v_turb ~ 300-600 ~km/s and eddy scales l_outer ~ 100-500 kpc, the larger numbers being characteristic of turbulence near the virial radius, while the smaller numbers pertain to the core. The simulation also predicts the existence of ordered bulk flows in the core with v ~ 400 km/s on scales of several hundred kpc. In this paper we consider the observability of such fluid motions via the distortions it induces in the CMB via the kinematic SZ effect, as well as via Doppler broadening and shifting of metal lines in the X-ray spectrum. We estimate |\Delta T/T|_kinematic < few X 10^{-6} -- at or below current limits of detectability. However, we find that an energy resolution of a few eV is sufficient to detect several Doppler shifted components in the 6.7 keV Fe line in the core of the cluster.
Bryan Greg L.
Norman Michael L.
Sunyaev Rashid A.
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