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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 488, Issue 4, Pages 5327-5339Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2059
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techniques: spectroscopic; galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium; galaxies: haloes; quasars: absorption lines
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- SERB from the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India [EMR/2017/002531]
- NASA from the Space Telescope Science Institute [HST GO-14655]
- NASA [NAS 5-26555]
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We present an ultraviolet quasar absorption line analysis of metal lines associated with three strong intervening Hi absorbers (with > 10(16.5) cm(-2)) detected in the outskirts of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect-selected galaxy clusters (z(cl) similar to 0.4-0.5), within clustocentric impact parameters of rho(cl) similar to (1.6-4.7)r(500). Discovered in a recent set of targeted far-UV HST/COS spectroscopic observations, these absorbers have among the highest H i column densities ever observed in the outskirts of galaxy clusters, and are also rich in metal absorption lines. Photoionization models yield single phase solutions for the three absorbers with gas densities of n(H) similar to 10(-3)-10(-4)cm(-3) and metallicities of [X/H] > -1.0 (from one-tenth solar to near-solar). The widths of detected absorption lines suggest gas temperatures of T similar to 10(4)K. The inferred densities (temperatures) are significantly higher (lower) compared to the X-ray emitting intracluster medium in cluster cores. The absorbers are tracing a cool phase of the intracluster gas in the cluster outskirts, either associated with gas stripped from cluster galaxies via outflows, tidal streams or ram-pressure forces, or denser regions within the intracluster medium that were uniformly chemically enriched from an earlier epoch of enhanced supernova and Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) feedback.
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