The LX – Tvir relation in galaxy clusters: effects of radiative cooling and AGN heating
The LX – Tvir relation in galaxy clusters: effects of radiative cooling and AGN heating
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星系团中的 LXâTvir 关系:辐射冷却和 AGN 加热的影响
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/200913714
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
Jaritz
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作者:
Mittal;Reiprich;Jaritz
We present a detailed investigation of the X-ray luminosity (LX)-gas temperature (Tvir) relation of the complete X-ray flux-limited sample of the 64 brightest galaxy clusters in the sky (HIFLUGCS). We study the influence of two astrophysical processes, active galactic nuclei (AGN) heating and intracluster medium (ICM) cooling, on theLX−Tvirrelation, simultaneously for the first time. We employ homogeneously determined gas temperatures and central cooling times, measured withChandra, and information about a central radio source from Mittal and collaborators. We determine best-fit relations for different subsamples using the cool-core strength and the presence of central radio activity as selection criteria. We find the strong cool-core clusters (SCCs) with short cooling times ( < 1 Gyr) to display the steepest relation (\hbox{$\lx \propto \tvir^{3.33\pm0.15}$}) and the non-cool-core clusters (NCCs) with long cooling times ( > 7.7 Gyr) to display the shallowest (\hbox{$\lx \propto \tvir^{2.42\pm0.21}$}). This has the simple implication that on the high-mass scale (Tvir> 2.5 keV) the steepening of theLX−Tvirrelation is mainly due to the cooling of the intracluster medium gas. We propose that ICM cooling and AGN heating are both important in shaping theLX−Tvirrelation but on different length-scales. While our study indicates that ICM cooling dominates on cluster scales (Tvir> 2.5 keV), we speculate that AGN heating dominates the scaling relation in poor clusters and groups (Tvir< 2.5 keV). The intrinsic scatter about theLX−Tvirrelation in X-ray luminosity for the whole sample is 45.4% and varies from a minimum of 34.8% for weak cool-core clusters to a maximum of 59.4% for clusters with no central radio source. The scatter does not decrease if SCC clusters are excluded from the full sample. We find that the contribution of core luminosities within the cooling radiusrcool, where the cooling time is 7.7 Gyr and gas cooling may be important, to the total X-ray luminosities amounts to 44% and 15% for the SCC and WCC clusters, respectively. We find that after excising the cooling region, the scatter in theLX−Tvirrelation drops from 45.4% to 39.1%, implying that the cooling region contributes ~27% to the overall scatter. The remaining scatter is largely due to the NCCs. Lastly, the statistical completeness of the sample allows us to quantify and correct for selection effects individually for the subsamples. We find the true SCC fraction to be 25% lower than the observed one and the true normalizations of theLX−Tvirrelations to be lower by 12%, 7%, and 17% for SCC, WCC, and NCC clusters, respectively.
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影响因子:
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作者:
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DOI:
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发表时间:
2011
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The Astronomical Journal
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