Implications of the Universal Temperature Profile for Galaxy Clusters

Details Implications of the Universal Temperature Profile for Galaxy Clusters Implications of the Universal Temperature Profile for Galaxy Clusters

2003-08-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308115v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.346:199,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages including 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, uses mn.sty (included)

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-2966.2003.07087.x

We study the X-ray cluster gas density distribution in hydrostatic equilibrium using the universal temperature profile obtained from recent simulations involving only gravitational processes. If this temperature profile is an indicator of the influence of gravitational processes alone on the intracluster medium, then the comparison of various X-ray parameters expected from this profile and the observed data would point towards any additional physics that may be required. We compare the entropy at 0.1 R_{200} and R_{500}, the scaled entropy profile, the gas fraction at 0.3 R_{200} and the gas fraction profile with recent observations and discuss the implications of this temperature profile in light of these data. We find that the entropy imparted to the gas from gravitational processes alone is larger than previously thought. The entropy at R_{500} for rich clusters is consistent with data, whereas the entropy at 0.1R_{200} is still less than the observed values. We also find that the gas fraction in the inner region of clusters, expected from gravitational processes alone, is smaller than previously thought but larger than the observed data. It does show a trend with the emission-weighted temperature () as shown by data. We therefore find that the role of any additional non-gravitational process influencing the physical state of ICM would have to be revised in light of these findings.

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