Properties and metal abundances of clusters Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Maughan B.J.
  2. Jones C.
  3. Forman W.
  4. Van Speybroeck L.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We have assembled a sample of 115 galaxy clusters at 0.1<z<1.3 with archived Chandra ACIS-I observations. We present X-ray images of the clusters and make available region files containing contours of the smoothed X-ray emission. The structural properties of the clusters were investigated, and we found a significant absence of relaxed clusters (as determined by centroid shift measurements) at z>0.5. The slope of the surface brightness profiles at large radii were steeper on average by 15% than the slope obtained by fitting a simple {beta}-model to the emission. This slope was also found to be correlated with cluster temperature, with some indication that the correlation is weaker for the clusters at z>0.5. We measured the mean metal abundance of the cluster gas as a function of redshift and found significant evolution, with the abundances dropping by 50% between z=0.1 and z~1. This evolution was still present (although less significant) when the cluster cores were excluded from the abundance measurements, indicating that the evolution is not solely due to the disappearance of relaxed, cool core clusters (which are known to have enhanced core metal abundances) from the population at z>~0.5.

Keywords
  1. galaxy-clusters
  2. x-ray-sources
  3. chemical-abundances
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008ApJS..174..117M
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/174/117
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/174/117
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21740117

Access

Web browser access HTML
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/174/117
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/174/117
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/174/117
IVOA Table Access TAP
https://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/174/117/clusters?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/174/117/clusters?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/174/117/clusters?
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/174/117/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/174/117/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/174/117/table1?

History

2009-11-12T15:01:06Z
Resource record created
2009-11-12T15:01:06Z
Created
2017-06-02T08:37:21Z
Updated

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