# Excess entropy and energy feedback from within cluster cores up to   r$_{200}$

**Authors:** Asif Iqbal, Subhabrata Majumdar, Biman B. Nath, Stefano Ettori,, Dominique Eckert, Manzoor A. Malik

arXiv: 1703.00028 · 2017-09-08

## TL;DR

This study estimates the non-gravitational entropy and energy feedback profiles in galaxy cluster cores up to r200, highlighting the importance of accounting for non-thermal pressure and gas clumping for accurate measurements.

## Contribution

It provides new estimates of entropy and energy feedback profiles in galaxy clusters, incorporating non-thermal pressure and gas clumping effects, and constrains pre-heating scenarios.

## Key findings

- Neglecting clumping underestimates entropy by up to 1100 keV cm$^2$ at r200.
- Ignoring non-thermal pressure overestimates entropy at r500 by about 100 keV cm$^2$.
- Entropy floor of 300 keV cm$^2$ is ruled out at 3σ across the entire radial range.

## Abstract

We estimate the "non-gravitational" entropy-injection profiles, $\Delta K$, and the resultant energy feedback profiles, $\Delta E$, of the intracluster medium for 17 clusters using their Planck SZ and ROSAT X-Ray observations, spanning a large radial range from $0.2r_{500}$ up to $r_{200}$. 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 $r_{500}$ and $r_{200}$ by 10\%-20\%. When clumpiness is not considered it leads to an under-estimation of $\Delta K\approx300$ keV cm$^2$ at $r_{500}$ and $\Delta K\approx1100$ keV cm$^2$ at $r_{200}$. On the other hand, neglecting non-thermal pressure results in an over-estimation of $\Delta K\approx 100$ keV cm$^2$ at $r_{500}$ and under-estimation of $\Delta K\approx450$ keV cm$^2$ at $r_{200}$. For the estimated feedback energy, we find that ignoring clumping leads to an under-estimation of energy per particle $\Delta E\approx1$ keV at $r_{500}$ and $\Delta E\approx1.5$ keV at $r_{200}$. Similarly, neglect of the non-thermal pressure results in an over-estimation of $\Delta E\approx0.5$ keV at $r_{500}$ and under-estimation of $\Delta E\approx0.25$ keV at $r_{200}$. We find entropy floor of $\Delta K\approx300$ keV cm$^2$ is ruled out at $\approx3\sigma$ throughout the entire radial range and $\Delta E\approx1$ keV at more than 3$\sigma$ beyond $r_{500}$, 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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