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Context. The internal structure of the intracluster medium (ICM) is tightly linked to the assembly history and physical processes in groups and clusters, but the role of recent accretion in shaping these profiles has not been fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

Non-gravitational feedback affects the nature of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). X-ray cooling of the ICM and in situ energy feedback from AGN's and SNe as well as {\it preheating} of the gas at epochs preceding the formation of clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Biman B. Nath , Stefano Ettori , Dominique Eckert , Manzoor A. Malik

Using XMM-Newton observations, we investigate the scaling and structural properties of the ICM entropy in a sample of 10 nearby (z < 0.2) relaxed galaxy clusters in the temperature range 2-9 keV. We derive the local entropy-temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud , E. Pointecouteau

We measure the intracluster medium temperature distributions for 62 galaxy clusters in the HIFLUGCS, an X-ray flux-limited sample, with available X-ray data from XMM-Newton. We search for correlations between the width of the temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-28 K. A. Frank , J. R. Peterson , K. Andersson , A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders

We jointly analyze Bolocam Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect and Chandra X-ray data for a set of 45 clusters to derive gas density and temperature profiles without using spectroscopic information. The sample spans the mass and redshift range $3…

On the basis of a large scale 'adiabatic', namely non-radiative and non-dissipative, cosmological smooth particle hydrodynamic simulation we compare the entropy profiles of the gas and the dark matter (DM) in galaxy clusters. The quantity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Faltenbacher , Y. Hoffman , S. Gottloeber , G. Yepes

We examine deep {\it XMM-Newton} EPIC-pn observations of the Centaurus cluster to study the hot intracluster medium (ICM) and radial metal distributions within such an environment. We found that the best-fit spectral model corresponds to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-07 Efrain Gatuzz , J. S. Sanders , K. Dennerl , A. Liu , A. C. Fabian , C. Pinto , D. Eckert , S. A. Walker , J. ZuHone

(Abridged) We examine the radial entropy distribution and its scaling using 31 nearby galaxy clusters from the Representative XMM-Newton Cluster Structure Survey (REXCESS). The entropy profiles are robustly measured at least out to R_1000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-22 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud , R. Piffaretti , H. Boehringer , T. J. Ponman , J. H. Croston , G. M. Voit , S. Borgani , R. G. Bower

I investigate an analytical model of galaxy clusters based on the assumption that the intracluster medium plasma is polytropic and is in hydrostatic equilibrium. The Einasto profile is adopted as a model for the spatial-density distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Mohammad S. Mirakhor

Studies of cluster X-ray scaling relations have led to suggestions that non-gravitational processes, e.g., radiative cooling and/or "preheating", have significantly modified the entropy of the intracluster medium (ICM). For the first time,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ian G. McCarthy , Gilbert P. Holder , Arif Babul , Michael L. Balogh

We present a statistically-optimal and model-independent method to extract the pressure profile of hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM). Using the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, we constrain the mean pressure profile of the ICM by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-02 Siavash Aslanbeigi , Guilhem Lavaux , Amir Hajian , Niayesh Afshordi

We present a set of cluster models that link the present-day properties of clusters to the processes that govern galaxy formation. These models treat the entropy distribution of the intracluster medium as its most fundamental property.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Mark Voit , Greg L. Bryan , Michael L. Balogh , Richard G. Bower

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Suparna Roychowdhury , Biman B. Nath

The entropy of the intracluster medium at large radii has been shown recently to deviate from the self-similar scaling with temperature. Using N-body/hydrodynamic simulations of the LCDM cosmology, we demonstrate that this deviation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott T. Kay

Previous analysis of the fossil-group/cluster RXJ1159+5531 with X-ray observations from a central Chandra pointing and an offset-North Suzaku pointing indicate a radial intracluster medium (ICM) entropy profile at the virial radius ($R_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yuanyuan Su , David Buote , Fabio Gastaldello , Fabrizio Brighenti

We present results from a set of high (512^3 effective resolution), and ultra-high (1024^3) SPH adiabatic cosmological simulations of cluster formation aimed at studying the internal structure of the intracluster medium (ICM). We derive a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Yepes , Y. Ascasibar , R. Sevilla , S. Gottlober , V. Muller

We show that galaxy clusters conform to a tight relation between X-ray isophotal size R_I and emission weighted intracluster medium (ICM) temperature T_X. The best fit relation for 41 members of an X-ray flux limited cluster sample is:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Joseph J. Mohr , August E. Evrard

In this work, we investigate the relation between the radially-resolved thermodynamic quantities of the intracluster medium in the X-COP cluster sample, aiming to assess the stratification properties of the ICM. We model the relations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Vittorio Ghirardini , Stefano Ettori , Dominique Eckert , Silvano Molendi

We examine an ensemble of 48 simulated clusters to determine the effects of small-scale density fluctuations and large-scale substructure on X-ray measurements of the intracluster medium (ICM) mass. We measure RMS density fluctuations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Mathiesen , A. E. Evrard , J. J. Mohr

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters are routinely used to derive radial distributions of ICM thermdynamical properties such as density and temperature. However, observations allow us to access quantities projected on the celestial sphere…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 I. Veronesi , I. Bartalucci , E. Rasia , S. Molendi , M. Balboni , S. De Grandi , F. Gastaldello , C. Grillo , S. Ghizzardi , L. Lovisari , G. Riva , M. Rossetti