Published 2022 | Version v1
Journal article

Characterizing the bulk and turbulent gas motions in galaxy clusters

  • 1. IRAP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Toulouse (France)
  • 2. Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Ch. d'Ecogia 16, CH-1290 Versoix (Switzerland)

Description

The most massive halos of matter in the Universe grow via accretion and merger events throughout cosmic times. These violent processes generate shocks at many scales and induce large-scale bulk and turbulent motions. These processes inject kinetic energy at large scales, which is transported to the viscous dissipation scales, contributing to the overall heating and virialisation of the halo, and acting as a source of non-thermal pressure in the intra-cluster medium. Characterizing the physical properties of these gas motions will help us to better understand the assembly of massive halos, hence the formation and the evolution of these large-scale structures. We base this characterization on the study of the X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect brightness fluctuations. Our work relies on three complementary samples covering a wide range of red-shifts, masses and dynamical states of clusters. We present the results of our X-ray analysis for the low redshift sample, X-COP, and a subsample of higher redshift clusters. We investigate the derived properties according to the dynamical state of our clusters, and the possibility of a self-similar behaviour based on the reconstructed gas motions power-spectra and the correlation with various morphological indicators.

Availability note (English)

Available from https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2022/01/epjconf_mmUniverse2021_00015.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/8900f7da64914f2bb711c2b37942e534

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
EPJ. Web of Conferences
Journal Volume
257
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
2100-014X

Conference

Title
International Conference on Observing the mm Universe with the NIKA2 camera
Acronym
mm Universe @ NIKA2
Dates
28 Jun - 2 Jul 2021
Place
Rome (Italy)

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
53090097
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BRIGHTNESS; GALAXY CLUSTERS; HEATING; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; RED SHIFT; SPECTRA; TRANSPORT; UNIVERSE; X RADIATION
Descriptors DEC
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY; IONIZING RADIATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIONS