2022ApJ...927..104B -
Astrophys. J., 927, 104-104 (2022/March-1)
The Missing Metal Problem in Galaxy Clusters: Characterizing the Early Enrichment Population.
BLACKWELL A.E., BREGMAN J.N. and SNOWDEN S.L.
Abstract (from CDS):
Rich and poor galaxy clusters have the same measured halo metallicity, 0.35-0.4 Z ☉, even though they are an order of magnitude apart in stellar fraction, M */M gas. The measured intracluster medium (ICM) metallicity in high-mass clusters cannot be explained by the visible stellar population as stars typically make up 3%-20% of the total baryon mass. The independence of metallicity of M */M gas suggests an external and universal source of metals such as an early enrichment population (EEP). Galaxy cluster RX J1416.4+2315, classified as a fossil system, has a stellar fraction of M */M gas = 0.054 ± 0.018, and here we improve the halo metallicity determination using archival Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. We determine the ICM metallicity of RXJ1416 to be 0.303 ± 0.053 Z ☉ within 0.3 < R/R 500 < 1, excluding the central galaxy. We combine this measurement with other clusters with a wider range of M */M gas, resulting in the fit of Z tot = (0.36 ± 0.01) + (0.10 ± 0.17)(M */M gas). This fit is largely independent of M */M gas and shows that for a low M */M gas system, the observed stellar population can make only 10%-20% of the total metals. We quantify the Fe contribution of the EEP further by adopting a standard Fe yield for visible stellar populations, and find that Z EEP = (0.36 ± 0.01) - - (0.96 ± 0.17)(M */M gas). To account for the observed Fe mass, a supernova (SN) rate of 10 ± 5 SNe yr–1 (Type Ia) and 40 ± 19 SNe yr–1 (core collapse) is required over the redshift range 3 < z < 10 for a single galaxy cluster with mass ∼3 x 1014 M ☉ at z = 0. These SNe might be visible in observations of high-redshift clusters and protoclusters with the James Webb Space Telescope.
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© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Galaxy clusters - Intracluster medium - Population II stars - X-ray astronomy
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