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2011MNRAS.412L..35S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 412, L35-L39 (2011/March-3)

Revealing O VII from stacked X-ray grating spectra of clusters, groups and elliptical galaxies.

SANDERS J.S. and FABIAN A.C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We stack 4.6 Ms of high spectral resolution XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer spectra from galaxy clusters, groups of galaxies and elliptical galaxies. For those objects with a central temperature of less than 1 keV, we detect O VII for the first time, with a probability of false detection of 2.5 {x} 10–4. The flux ratio of the O VII to Fe XVII lines is one-fourth to one-eighth of the emission expected for isobaric radiative cooling in the absence of heating. There is either a process preventing cooling below 0.5 keV, anomalous O/Fe abundance ratios, absorbing material around the coolest X-ray-emitting gas or non-radiative cooling taking place. The mean N VII emission line is strong in the sub-keV sample. As the ratio of the hydrogenic N and O lines is largely independent of temperature, we measure a mean N/O ratio of 4.0±0.6 Z. Although the continuum around the C VI lines is difficult to measure, we can similarly estimate that the C/O ratio is 0.9±0.3 Z.

Abstract Copyright: 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2011 RAS

Journal keyword(s): intergalactic medium - X-rays: galaxies: clusters

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