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Tracing the non-thermal pressure and hydrostatic bias in galaxy clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-12-29 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We present a modelization of the non-thermal pressure, PNTP_{NT}, and we apply it to the X-ray (and Sunayev-Zel'dovich) derived radial profiles of the X-COP galaxy clusters. We relate the amount of non-thermal pressure support to the hydrostatic bias, bb, and speculate on how we can interpret this PNTP_{NT} in terms of the expected levels of turbulent velocity and magnetic fields. Current upper limits on the turbulent velocity in the intracluster plasma are used to build a distribution N(<b)b\mathcal{N}(<b) - b, from which we infer that 50 per cent of local galaxy clusters should have b<0.2b < 0.2 (b<0.33b<0.33 in 80 per cent of the population). The measured bias in the X-COP sample that includes relaxed massive nearby systems is 0.03 in 50% of the objects and 0.17 in 80% of them. All these values are below the amount of bias required to reconcile the observed cluster number count in the cosmological framework set from Planck.

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@article{arxiv.2112.07554,
  title  = {Tracing the non-thermal pressure and hydrostatic bias in galaxy clusters},
  author = {S. Ettori and D. Eckert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07554},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A Letters