Chex-mate: Constraining the origin of the scatter in galaxy cluster radial X-ray surface brightness profiles

I. Bartalucci*, S. Molendi, E. Rasia, G. W. Pratt, M. Arnaud, M. Rossetti, F. Gastaldello, D. Eckert, M. Balboni, S. Borgani, H. Bourdin, M. G. Campitiello, S. De Grandi, M. De Petris, R. T. Duffy, S. Ettori, A. Ferragamo, M. Gaspari, R. Gavazzi, S. GhizzardiA. Iqbal, S. T. Kay, L. Lovisari, P. Mazzotta, B. J. Maughan, E. Pointecouteau, G. Riva, M. Sereno

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Abstract

We investigate the statistical properties and the origin of the scatter within the spatially resolved surface brightness profiles of the CHEX-MATE sample, formed by 118 galaxy clusters selected via the SZ effect. These objects have been drawn from the Planck SZ catalogue and cover a wide range of masses, M$_{500}=[2-15] \times 10^{14} $M$_{\odot}$, and redshift, z=[0.05,0.6]. We derived the surface brightness and emission measure profiles and determined the statistical properties of the full sample. We found that there is a critical scale, R$\sim 0.4 R_{500}$, within which morphologically relaxed and disturbed object profiles diverge. The median of each sub-sample differs by a factor of $\sim 10$ at $0.05\,R_{500}$. There are no significant differences between mass- and redshift-selected sub-samples once proper scaling is applied. We compare CHEX-MATE with a sample of 115 clusters drawn from the The Three Hundred suite of cosmological simulations. We found that simulated emission measure profiles are systematically steeper than those of observations. For the first time, the simulations were used to break down the components causing the scatter between the profiles. We investigated the behaviour of the scatter due to object-by-object variation. We found that the high scatter, approximately 110%, at $R
Original languageEnglish
Article numberA179
JournalAstronomy and Astrophysics
Volume674
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Jun 2023

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Funding Information:
The authors thank the referee for his/her comments. We acknowledge financial contribution from the contracts ASI-INAF Athena 2019-27-HH.0, “Attività di Studio per la comunità scientifica di Astrofisica delle Alte Energie e Fisica Astroparticellare” (Accordo Attuativo ASI-INAF No. 2017-14-H.0), and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme under the AHEAD2020 project (grant agreement No. 871158). This research was supported by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, through ISSI International Team project #565 (Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Culmination of Structure Formation in the Universe). The results reported in this article are based on data obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and NASA. GWP acknowledges financial support from CNES, the French space agency.

Funding Information:
The authors thank the referee for his/her comments. We acknowledge financial contribution from the contracts ASI-INAF Athena 2019-27-HH.0, “Attività di Studio per la comunità scientifica di Astrofisica delle Alte Energie e Fisica Astroparticellare” (Accordo Attuativo ASI-INAF No. 2017-14-H.0), and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme under the AHEAD2020 project (grant agreement No. 871158). This research was supported by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, through ISSI International Team project #565 (Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Culmination of Structure Formation in the Universe). The results reported in this article are based on data obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and NASA. GWP acknowledges financial support from CNES, the French space agency.

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Keywords

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