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We present the X-ray properties and scaling relations of a flux-limited morphology-unbiased sample of 12 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at redshift around 0.2 based on XMM-Newton observations. The scaled radial profiles are characterized by…

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We examine a sample of $\sim 250 000$ "locally brightest galaxies" selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to be central galaxies within their dark matter halos. These were previously stacked by the Planck Collaboration to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael E. Anderson , Massimo Gaspari , Simon D. M. White , Wenting Wang , Xinyu Dai

Using a sample of ten nearby (z< 0.15), relaxed galaxy clusters in the temperature range [2-9] keV, we have investigated the scaling relation between the mass at various density contrasts (delta=2500,1000,500,200) and the cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Arnaud , E. Pointecouteau , G. W. Pratt

We have revisited the X-ray scaling relations of early type galaxies (ETG) by investigating, for the first time, the LX,Gas - MTotal relation in a sample of 14 ETGs. In contrast to the large scatter (by a factor of 102-103) in the LX,Total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Dong-Woo Kim , Giuseppina Fabbiano

We compare the empirical relationships between the mass of a galaxy's globular system M_GCS, the gas mass in the hot X-ray atmosphere M_X within a fiducial radius of 5 r_e, the total gravitational mass M_grav within 5 r_e, and lastly the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Gretchen L. H. Harris , Iurii V. Babyk , William E. Harris , Brian R. McNamara

The interstellar medium of galaxies, with temperatures reaching several million degrees, provides a pivotal perspective for understanding the physical and chemical properties of star formation, galactic evolution, and their associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang

(Abridged) This is the second in a series of papers in which we derive simultaneous constraints on cosmology and X-ray scaling relations using observations of massive, X-ray flux-selected galaxy clusters. The data set consists of 238…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Adam Mantz , Steven W. Allen , Harald Ebeling , David Rapetti , Alex Drlica-Wagner

We analyze $Chandra$ observations of the hot atmospheres of 40 early spiral and elliptical galaxies. Using new temperature, density, cooling time, and mass profiles, we explore relationships between their hot atmospheres and cold molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Iu. V. Babyk , B. R. McNamara , P. D. Tamhane , P. E. J. Nulsen , H. R. Russell , A. C. Edge

Hot ionized interstellar medium interlinks star formation and stellar feedback processes, redistributing energy, momentum, and material throughout galaxies. We use X-ray data from $Chandra$ to extract the hot gas emission from 78 of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-01 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang

(Abridged) We examine the X-ray luminosity scaling relations of 31 nearby galaxy clusters from the Representative XMM-Newton Cluster Structure Survey (REXCESS). The objects are selected in X-ray luminosity only, optimally sampling the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 G. W. Pratt , J. H. Croston , M. Arnaud , H. Boehringer

The knowledge of the X-ray properties of the hot gas halos of early-type galaxies has significantly advanced in the past years, for large and homogeneously investigated samples. We compare these results with the X-ray properties of an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-06 Silvia Pellegrini , Luca Ciotti , Zhaoming Gan , Dong-Woo Kim , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We consider a sample of 22 nearby clusters of galaxies observed with the Medium Energy Concentrator Spectrometer (MECS) on board of BeppoSAX. They cover the range in gas temperature between 3 and 10 keV, with bolometric X-ray luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Ettori , S. De Grandi , S. Molendi

We have assembled a large sample of virialized systems, comprising 66 galaxy clusters, groups and elliptical galaxies with high quality X-ray data. To each system we have fitted analytical profiles describing the gas density and temperature…

We present a detailed diagnostic study of the observed temperatures of the hot X-ray coronae of early-type galaxies. By extending the investigation carried out in Pellegrini (2011) with spherical models, we focus on the dependence of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Silvia Posacki , Silvia Pellegrini , Luca Ciotti

We derive constraints on the mass-temperature relation of galaxy clusters from their observed luminosity-temperature relation and X-ray temperature function. Adopting the isothermal gas in hydrostatic equilibrium embedded in the universal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mamoru Shimizu , Tetsu Kitayama , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto

The standard self-similar model of galaxy cluster formation predicts that the X-ray luminosity-temperature ($L_X$-$T_X$) relation of galaxy clusters should have been $L_X\propto T_X^2$ in absence of the baryonic physics, such as radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-12 Yutaka Fujita , Han Aung

The relation between X-ray luminosity and near-infrared luminosity for early-type galaxies has been examined. Near-infrared (NIR) luminosities should provide a superior measure of stellar mass compared to optical luminosities used in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. C. Ellis , Ewan O'Sullivan

Combining conservation of energy throughout nearly-spherical collapse of galaxy clusters with the virial theorem, we derive the mass-temperature relation for X-ray clusters of galaxies $T=CM^{2/3}$. The normalization factor $C$ and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-29 Niayesh Afshordi , Renyue Cen

Understanding how the properties of galaxies relate to the properties of the hot circum-galactic medium (CGM) around them can constrain galaxy evolution models. We measured the X-ray luminosity of the hot CGM based on the surface brightness…

Combining X-ray data from the ROSAT PSPC and optical data drawn from the literature, we examine in detail the relationship between the X-ray and optical properties of X-ray bright galaxy groups. We find a relationship between optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stephen F. Helsdon , Trevor J. Ponman