Scaling laws in X-ray Galaxy Clusters at redshift between 0.4 and 1.3

Details Scaling laws in X-ray Galaxy Clusters at redshift between 0.4 and 1.3 Scaling laws in X-ray Galaxy Clusters at redshift between 0.4 and 1.3

2003-12-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312239v2

Astron.Astrophys. 417 (2004) 13-27

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in A&A; typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20034119

(Abriged) We present a study of the integrated physical properties of a sample of 28 X-ray galaxy clusters observed with Chandra at redshift between 0.4 and 1.3. In particular, we have twelve objects in the redshift range 0.4-0.6, five between 0.6 and 0.8, seven between 0.8 and 1 and four at z>1, compounding the largest sample available for such a study. We focus particularly on the properties and evolution of the X-ray scaling laws. We fit both a single and a double beta-model with the former which provides a good representation of the observed surface brightness profiles, indicating that these clusters do not show any significant excess in their central brightness. By using the best-fit parameters of the beta-model together with the measured emission-weighted temperature (in the range 3-11 keV), we recover gas luminosity, gas mass and total gravitating mass out to R500. We observe scaling relations steeper than expected from self-similar model by a significant (>3 sigma) amount in the L-T and Mgas-T relations. We detect hints of negative evolution in the L-T, Mgas-T and L-Mtot relations, thus suggesting that systems at higher redshift have lower X-ray luminosity and gas mass for fixed temperature. In particular, when the 16 clusters at z>0.6 are considered, the evolution becomes more evident and its power-law modelization is a statistically good description of the data.

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