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氦沉降对星系团X射线测量的影响

Effect of Helium Sedimentation on X-ray Measurements of Galaxy Clusters

Fang Peng, Daisuke Nagai

摘要:

团内X射线发射介质(ICM)中氦氢丰度比的均匀性是星系团X射线分析中常用的假设之一,也是由此测量得到的宇宙学约束之一。在这项工作中,我们调查的影响,他的沉积对X射线测量的星系团,以评估这一假设和相关的系统的不确定性。通过求解一组H-He等离子体的流动方程,我们发现在团簇的内部区域,氦氢质量比显著增强。如果不考虑He沉降的影响,则会在使用X射线观测得出的团簇的可观测性质中引入系统偏差。我们发现,这些偏见也引入了一个明显的演变所观察到的气体质量分数的X射线发光,动态放松集群和观测约束的暗能量方程的状态参数,w,来自集群距离红移关系的偏见。由X射线和Sunyaev-Zel'dovich效应(SZE)测量组合得到的哈勃参数也受到He沉积过程的影响。未来的测量,旨在限制w或H_0优于10%可能需要考虑的影响,他的沉积。我们建议,在集群的内部区域的气体质量分数的演变应该提供独特的观测诊断的He沉积过程。

英文摘要:

The uniformity of the helium-to-hydrogen abundance ratio in X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM) is one of the commonly adopted assumptions in X-ray analyses of galaxy clusters and cosmological constraints derived from these measurements. In this work, we investigate the effect of He sedimentation on X-ray measurements of galaxy clusters in order to assess this assumption and associated systematic uncertainties. By solving a set of flow equations for a H-He plasma, we show that the helium-to-hydrogen mass ratio is significantly enhanced in the inner regions of clusters. The effect of He sedimentation, if not accounted for, introduces systematic biases in observable properties of clusters derived using X-ray observations. We show that these biases also introduce an apparent evolution in the observed gas mass fractions of X-ray luminous, dynamically relaxed clusters and hence biases in observational constraints on the dark energy equation of state parameter, w, derived from the cluster distance-redshift relation. The Hubble parameter derived from the combination of X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) measurements is affected by the He sedimentation process as well. Future measurements aiming to constrain w or H_0 to better than 10% may need to take into account the effect of He sedimentation. We propose that the evolution of gas mass fraction in the inner regions of clusters should provide unique observational diagnostics of the He sedimentation process.

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