TRACING THE GAS TO THE VIRIAL RADIUS (R-100) IN A FOSSIL GROUP
Author | dc.contributor.author | Humphrey, Philip J. | |
Author | dc.contributor.author | Buote, David A. | es_CL |
Author | dc.contributor.author | Brighenti, Fabrizio | es_CL |
Author | dc.contributor.author | Flohic, Hélène M. L. G. | es_CL |
Author | dc.contributor.author | Gastaldello, Fabio | es_CL |
Author | dc.contributor.author | Mathews, William G. | es_CL |
Admission date | dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-09T15:04:16Z | |
Available date | dc.date.available | 2012-05-09T15:04:16Z | |
Publication date | dc.date.issued | 2012-03-20 | |
Cita de ítem | dc.identifier.citation | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Volume: 748 Issue: 1 Article Number: 11 Published: MAR 20 2012 | es_CL |
Identifier | dc.identifier.issn | 0004-637X | |
Identifier | dc.identifier.other | DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/11 | |
Identifier | dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/125584 | |
Abstract | dc.description.abstract | We present a Chandra, Suzaku and Rosat study of the hot Intra Group Medium (IGrM) of the relaxed fossil group/ poor cluster RXJ 1159+5531. This group exhibits an advantageous combination of flat surface brightness profile, high luminosity and optimal distance, allowing the gas to be detected out to the virial radius (Rvir≡ R108 =1100 kpc) in a single Suzaku pointing, while the complementary Chandra data reveal a round morphology and relaxed IGrMimage down to kpc scales. We measure the IGrM entropy profile over ∼3 orders of magnitude in radius, including 3 data bins beyond ∼ 0.5R200 that have good azimuthal coverage (>30%). We find no evidence that the profile flattens at large scales (>R500), and when corrected for the enclosed gas fraction, the entropy profile is very close to the predictions from self-similar structure formation simulations, as seen in massive clusters. Within Rvir, we measure a baryon fraction of 0.17 ± 0.02, consistent with the Cosmological value. These results are in sharp contrast to the gas behaviour at large scales recently reported in the Virgo and Perseus clusters, and indicate that substantial gas clumping cannot be ubiquitous near Rvir, at least in highly evolved (fossil) groups. | es_CL |
Patrocinador | dc.description.sponsorship | NASA NNX10AD07G | es_CL |
Lenguage | dc.language.iso | en | es_CL |
Publisher | dc.publisher | IOP PUBLISHING LTD | es_CL |
Keywords | dc.subject | Cosmology: dark matter | es_CL |
Título | dc.title | TRACING THE GAS TO THE VIRIAL RADIUS (R-100) IN A FOSSIL GROUP | es_CL |
Document type | dc.type | Artículo de revista |
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