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AGN feedback duty cycle in Planck SZ selected clusters using Chandra observations

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2022-08-31 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We present a systematic study of X-ray cavities using archival Chandra observations of nearby galaxy clusters selected by their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) signature in the Planck survey, which provides a nearly unbiased mass-selected sample to explore the entire AGN feedback duty cycle. Based on X-ray image analysis, we report that 30 of the 164 clusters show X-ray cavities, which corresponds to a detection fraction of 18%. After correcting for spatial resolution to match the high-zz SPT-SZ sample, the detection fraction decreases to 9%, consistent with the high-z sample, hinting that the AGN feedback has not evolved across almost 8 Gyrs. Our finding agrees with the lack of evolution of cool-core clusters fraction. We calculate the cavity power, P_{\rm cav}, and find that most systems of our sample have enough AGN heating to offset the radiative losses of the intracluster medium.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2208.04888,
  title  = {AGN feedback duty cycle in Planck SZ selected clusters using Chandra observations},
  author = {V. Olivares and Y. Su and P. Nulsen and R. Kraft and T. Somboonpanyakul and F. Andrade-Santos and C. Jones and W. Forman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.04888},
  year   = {2022}
}

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