Excess entropy and energy feedback from within cluster cores up to r200
Abstract
We estimate the "non-gravitational" entropy-injection profiles, K, and the resultant energy feedback profiles, E, of the intracluster medium for 17 clusters using their Planck SZ and ROSAT X-Ray observations, spanning a large radial range from 0.2r500 up to r200. The feedback profiles are estimated by comparing the observed entropy, at fixed gas mass shells, with theoretical entropy profiles predicted from non-radiative hydrodynamic simulations. We include non-thermal pressure and gas clumping in our analysis. The inclusion of non-thermal pressure and clumping results in changing the estimates for r500 and r200 by 10\%-20\%. When clumpiness is not considered it leads to an under-estimation of K≈300 keV cm2 at r500 and K≈1100 keV cm2 at r200. On the other hand, neglecting non-thermal pressure results in an over-estimation of K≈ 100 keV cm2 at r500 and under-estimation of K≈450 keV cm2 at r200. For the estimated feedback energy, we find that ignoring clumping leads to an under-estimation of energy per particle E≈1 keV at r500 and E≈1.5 keV at r200. Similarly, neglect of the non-thermal pressure results in an over-estimation of E≈0.5 keV at r500 and under-estimation of E≈0.25 keV at r200. We find entropy floor of K≈300 keV cm2 is ruled out at ≈3σ throughout the entire radial range and E≈1 keV at more than 3σ beyond r500, strongly constraining ICM pre-heating scenarios. We also demonstrate robustness of results w.r.t sample selection, X-Ray analysis procedures, entropy modeling etc.
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