A CHANDRA STUDY OF TEMPERATURE SUBSTRUCTURES IN INTERMEDIATE-REDSHIFT GALAXY CLUSTERS

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dc.contributor.authorGu, Liyi
dc.contributor.authorWang, Yu
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Zhongli
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-31T17:23:49Z
dc.date.available2021-08-31T17:23:49Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractBy analyzing the gas temperature maps created from the Chandra archive data, we reveal the prevailing existence of temperature substructures on ∼ 100 h −1 70 kpc scales in the central regions of nine intermediate-redshift (z ≈ 0.1) galaxy clusters, which resemble those found in the Virgo and Coma Clusters. Each substructure contains a clump of hot plasma whose temperature is about 2 − 3 keV higher than the environment, corresponding to an excess thermal energy of ∼ 1058−60 erg per clump. Since if there were no significant non-gravitational heating sources, these substructures would have perished in 108−9 yrs due to thermal conduction and turbulent flows, whose velocity is found to range from about 200 to 400 km s−1 , we conclude that the substructures cannot be created and sustained by inhomogeneous radiative cooling. We also eliminate the possibilities that the temperature substructures are caused by supernova explosions, or by the non-thermal X-ray emission due to the inverse-Comptonization of the CMB photons. By calculating the rising time of AGN-induced buoyant bubbles, we speculate that the intermittent AGN outbursts (≥ 1060 erg per burst) may have played a crucial role in the forming of the high temperature substructures. Our results are supported by recent study of McNamara & Nulsen (2007), posing a tight observational constraint on future theoretical and numerical studiesen_US
dc.identifier.citationGu et al, 2009. ACHANDRASTUDY OF TEMPERATURE SUBSTRUCTURES IN INTERMEDIATE-REDSHIFT GALAXY CLUSTERS. The Astrophysical Journal, 700(2), pp.1161-1172.en_US
dc.identifier.uriDOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/700/2/1161
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6571
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectgalaxiesen_US
dc.subjectclusters: generalen_US
dc.subjectgalaxies: intergalactic mediumen_US
dc.titleA CHANDRA STUDY OF TEMPERATURE SUBSTRUCTURES IN INTERMEDIATE-REDSHIFT GALAXY CLUSTERSen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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