XRISM XTEND observation 300053010

Title

NON-THERMAL PRESSURE SUPPORT IN RELAXED GALAXY CLUSTERS

Abstract

We propose XRISM Resolve observations to measure the turbulence and bulk motion of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the outer regions of a relaxed galaxy cluster, Abell 2029. Such non-thermal pressure support causes a bias in cluster masses measured from X-rays under the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium, and understanding its magnitude has broad implications for cosmological results that use cluster mass scaling relations. These will be the first direct measurements of the kinematic ICM structure outside the cluster core, and they will also confront predictions from numerical simulations that suggest non-thermal pressure support could be substantial here. We will simultaneously obtain Xtend spectral imaging at the virial radius to a depth exceeding existing Suzaku observations.

FITS header

TELESCOP= 'XRISM   '           / Mission name
INSTRUME= 'XTEND   '           / Instrument name
OBS_ID  = '300053010'          / Observation identification string
OBJECT  = 'Abell2029_N2'       / Object name
OBSERVER= 'XRISM Collaboration' / PI name
OBS_MODE= 'POINTING'           / POINTING or SLEW or ALL
RA_OBJ  =             227.7941 / [deg] Object Right ascension
DEC_OBJ =               5.8243 / [deg] Object Declination
RA_PNT  =     227.808844188406 / Pointing RA
DEC_PNT =     5.82675015843195 / Pointing DEC
RA_NOM  =     227.794314069496 / [deg] Nominal aspect point R.A.
DEC_NOM =     5.82454761614817 / [deg] Nominal aspect point Dec.
PA_NOM  =     284.999190822666 / [deg] Nominal aspect point roll.
TELAPSE =     698440.963135988 / Elapsed time
DATE-OBS= '2024-07-27T17:15:09.036864' / Start date
DATE-END= '2024-08-04T19:15:50' / Stop date
ONTIME  =          350240.0645 / On-source time
EXPOSURE=          350240.0645 / Exposure time
PROCVER = '03.00.013.009'      / Processing script version
MKFFF   = 'ISAS/JAXA'          / Origin of First FITS file
ORIGIN  = 'GSFC/NASA'          / Origin of Processed FITS file
SOFTVER = 'Hea_21Aug2024_V6.34_XRISM_21Aug2024_V001' / Version of HEADAS used
CALDBVER= 'gen20240315_xtd20240815_rsl20240815' / Version of CALDB used
DATE    = '2024-09-25T06:53:51' / Date and time this file was created or updated
SIB2_VER=                      / SIB2 version JAXA

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