Strong AGN heating provides an alternative means for the disruption of cluster cool cores (CCs) to cluster mergers. In this work, we present a systematic Chandra study of a sample of 108 nearby (z < 0.1) galaxy clusters, to investigate the effect of AGN heating on CCs. About 40 per cent of clusters with small offsets between the BCG and the X-ray centre (≤50 kpc) have small CCs. For comparison, 14 of 17 clusters with large offsets have small CCs, which suggests that mergers or sloshing can be efficient in reducing the CC size. Relaxed, small CC clusters generally have weak radio AGNs (W Hz-1), and they show a lack of systems hosting a radio AGN with intermediate radio power (W Hz-1). We found that the strongest circumnuclear (<1 kpc) X-ray emission only exists in clusters with strong radio AGN. The duty cycle of relaxed, small CC clusters is less than half of that for large CC clusters. It suggests that the radio activity of BCGs is affected by the properties of the surrounding gas beyond the central ∼10 kpc, and strong radio AGNs in small X-ray CCs fade more rapidly than those embedded in large X-ray CCs. A scenario is also presented for the transition of large CCs and coronae due to radio AGN feedback. We also present a detailed analysis of galaxy cluster 3C 129.1 as an example of a CC remnant possibly disrupted by radio AGN.

X-ray cool core remnants heated by strong radio AGN feedback / Liu, W.; Sun, M.; Voit, G. M.; Lal, D. V.; Nulsen, P.; Gaspari, M.; Sarazin, C.; Ehlert, S.; Zheng, X.. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0035-8711. - 531:1(2024), pp. 2063-2078. [10.1093/mnras/stae1285]

X-ray cool core remnants heated by strong radio AGN feedback

Gaspari M.;
2024

Abstract

Strong AGN heating provides an alternative means for the disruption of cluster cool cores (CCs) to cluster mergers. In this work, we present a systematic Chandra study of a sample of 108 nearby (z < 0.1) galaxy clusters, to investigate the effect of AGN heating on CCs. About 40 per cent of clusters with small offsets between the BCG and the X-ray centre (≤50 kpc) have small CCs. For comparison, 14 of 17 clusters with large offsets have small CCs, which suggests that mergers or sloshing can be efficient in reducing the CC size. Relaxed, small CC clusters generally have weak radio AGNs (W Hz-1), and they show a lack of systems hosting a radio AGN with intermediate radio power (W Hz-1). We found that the strongest circumnuclear (<1 kpc) X-ray emission only exists in clusters with strong radio AGN. The duty cycle of relaxed, small CC clusters is less than half of that for large CC clusters. It suggests that the radio activity of BCGs is affected by the properties of the surrounding gas beyond the central ∼10 kpc, and strong radio AGNs in small X-ray CCs fade more rapidly than those embedded in large X-ray CCs. A scenario is also presented for the transition of large CCs and coronae due to radio AGN feedback. We also present a detailed analysis of galaxy cluster 3C 129.1 as an example of a CC remnant possibly disrupted by radio AGN.
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X-ray cool core remnants heated by strong radio AGN feedback / Liu, W.; Sun, M.; Voit, G. M.; Lal, D. V.; Nulsen, P.; Gaspari, M.; Sarazin, C.; Ehlert, S.; Zheng, X.. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0035-8711. - 531:1(2024), pp. 2063-2078. [10.1093/mnras/stae1285]
Liu, W.; Sun, M.; Voit, G. M.; Lal, D. V.; Nulsen, P.; Gaspari, M.; Sarazin, C.; Ehlert, S.; Zheng, X.
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