Origin of central abundances in the hot intra-cluster medium - II. chemical enrichment and supernova yield models

Mernier, F. and Plaa, J. de and Pinto, C. and Kaastra, J. S. and Kosec, P. and Zhang, Y-Y and Mao, J. and Werner, N. and Pols, O. R. and Vink, J. (2016) Origin of central abundances in the hot intra-cluster medium - II. chemical enrichment and supernova yield models. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 595. A126. ISSN 0004-6361 (https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628765)

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Abstract

The hot intra-cluster medium (ICM) is rich in metals, which are synthesised by supernovae (SNe) and accumulate over time into the deep gravitational potential well of clusters of galaxies. Since most of the elements visible in X-rays are formed by type Ia (SNIa) and/or core-collapse (SNcc) supernovae, measuring their abundances gives us direct information on the nucleosynthesis products of billions of SNe since the epoch of the star formation peak (z~2-3). In this study, we compare the most accurate average X/Fe abundance ratios (compiled in a previous work from XMM-Newton EPIC and RGS observations of 44 galaxy clusters, groups, and ellipticals), representative of the chemical enrichment in the nearby ICM, to various SNIa and SNcc nucleosynthesis models found in the literature. The use of a SNcc model combined to any favoured standard SNIa model (deflagration or delayed-detonation) fails to reproduce our abundance pattern. In particular, the Ca/Fe and Ni/Fe ratios are significantly underestimated by the models. We show that the Ca/Fe ratio can be reproduced better, either by taking a SNIa delayed-detonation model that matches the observations of the Tycho supernova remnant, or by adding a contribution from the Ca-rich gap transient SNe, whose material should easily mix into the hot ICM. On the other hand, the Ni/Fe ratio can be reproduced better by assuming that both deflagration and delayed-detonation SNIa contribute in similar proportions to the ICM enrichment. In either case, the fraction of SNIa over the total number of SNe (SNIa+SNcc) contributing to the ICM enrichment ranges within 29-45%. This fraction is found to be systematically higher than the corresponding SNIa/SNe fraction contributing to the enrichment of the proto-solar environnement (15-25%). We also discuss and quantify two useful constraints on both SNIa and SNcc that can be inferred from the ICM abundance ratios.

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Mernier, F., Plaa, J. de, Pinto, C., Kaastra, J. S., Kosec, P., Zhang, Y-Y, Mao, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7557-9713, Werner, N., Pols, O. R. and Vink, J.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:70859
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    16 November 2016
    Published
    12 July 2016
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Astronomy
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:12 Dec 2019 16:18
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 12:31
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70859
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