Implications of the central metal abundance peak in cooling core clusters of galaxies

被引:80
作者
Böhringer, H
Matsushita, K
Churazov, E
Finoguenov, A
Ikebe, Y
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys, D-85740 Garching, Germany
[2] Sci Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Shinjyuku Ku, Tokyo 1628601, Japan
[3] Max Planck Inst Astrophys, D-85740 Garching, Germany
[4] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Phys, Joint Ctr Astrophys, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
来源
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | 2004年 / 416卷 / 03期
关键词
clusters of galaxies; cooling flows; supernovae; chemical evolution;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361:20040047
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Recent XMM-Newton observations of clusters of galaxies have provided detailed information on the distribution of heavy elements in the central regions of clusters with cooling cores providing strong evidence that most of these metals come from recent SN type Ia. In this paper we compile information on the cumulative mass profiles of iron, the most important metallicity tracer. We find that long enrichment times (greater than or equal to5 Gyr) are necessary to produce the central abundance peaks. Classical cooling flows, a strongly convective intracluster medium, and a complete metal mixing by cluster mergers would destroy the observed abundance peaks too rapidly. Thus the observations set strong constraints on cluster evolution models requiring that the cooling cores in clusters are preserved over very long times. We further conclude from the observations that the innermost part of the intracluster medium is most probably dominated by gas originating predominantly from stellar mass loss of the cD galaxy.
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页码:L21 / L25
页数:5
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