Iron abundances in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Hydrodynamical SPH simulations of galaxy clusters are used to investigate the metal enrichment of the intracluster medium. The final metallicity abundances of the simulated clusters are determined according to the numerical resolution and a number of model parameters. For a fiducial set of model prescriptions the results of the simulations indicate iron abundances in broad agreement with data. Final X-ray properties are not sensitive to the heating of the ICM. This supports a scenario where the ICM evolution of cool clusters is driven by radiative cooling.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0211111,
title = {Iron abundances in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters},
author = {R. Valdarnini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0211111},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the XXXVIIth Moriond Astrophysics Meeting "The Cosmological Model", Les Arcs, France, March 2002