Abstract
Abstract
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 × 1014
M
⊙ at z = 0. These SNe might be visible in observations of high-redshift clusters and protoclusters with the James Webb Space Telescope.
Funder
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cited by
2 articles.
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