Solar chemical composition in the hot gas of cool-core ellipticals, groups, and clusters of galaxies

Mernier, François and Werner, Norbert and Plaa, Jelle de and Kaastra, Jelle S. and Raassen, Anton J. J. and Gu, Liyi and Mao, Junjie and Urdampilleta, Igone and Simionescu, Aurora (2018) Solar chemical composition in the hot gas of cool-core ellipticals, groups, and clusters of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480 (1). L95–L100. ISSN 0035-8711 (https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly134)

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Abstract

The hot intracluster medium (ICM) pervading galaxy clusters and groups is rich in metals, which were synthesised by billions of supernovae and have accumulated in cluster gravitational wells for several Gyrs. Since the products of both Type Ia and core-collapse supernovae - expected to explode over different time scales - are found in the ICM, constraining accurately the chemical composition these hot atmospheres can provide invaluable information on the history of the enrichment of large-scale structures. Recently, Hitomi observations reported solar abundance ratios in the core of the Perseus cluster, in tension with previous XMM-Newton measurements obtained for 44 cool-core clusters, groups, and massive ellipticals (the CHEERS sample). In this work, we revisit the CHEERS results by using an updated version of the spectral code used to fit the data (SPEXACT v3), the same as was used to obtain the Hitomi measurements. Despite limitations in the spectral resolution, the average Cr/Fe and Ni/Fe ratios are now found to be remarkably consistent with unity and in excellent agreement with the Hitomi results. Our updated measurements suggest that the solar composition of the ICM of Perseus is a very common feature in nearby cool-core systems.

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Mernier, François, Werner, Norbert, Plaa, Jelle de, Kaastra, Jelle S., Raassen, Anton J. J., Gu, Liyi, Mao, Junjie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7557-9713, Urdampilleta, Igone and Simionescu, Aurora;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:70833
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    23 July 2018
    Published
    23 July 2018
    Published Online
    16 July 2018
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Astronomy
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:12 Dec 2019 10:37
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 12:31
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70833
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