CONSTRAINING SUPERNOVA NUCLEOSYNTHESIS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTRA OF THE INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM
Aurora Simionescu (SRON) with S. Nakashima, H. Yamaguchi, K. Matsushita, F. Mernier, N. Werner, T. Tamura, K. Nomoto, S.-C. Leung, J. de Plaa, E. Bulbul, C. Pinto, and many many other members of the Hitomi Collaboration WHY STUDY CLUSTERS TO UNDERSTAND SUPERNOVAE??
(1) Most of the metals in the local Universe were ejected from their parent galaxies and are found in the X-ray emitting intergalactic gas.
(2) The ICM is optically thin and in collisional ionisation equilibrium, so abundances are easy to extract from spectra. SOURCES OF METALS IN THE ICM
Zinit = 0.001 SNcc Zinit = 0.004 Kepler Cas A Zinit = 0.008 Zinit = 0.02 solar) (SN core collapse) − (SN type Ia) X/Fe abundance ratio (proto
0246 O Ne Mg Si S Ar Ca Cr Fe Ni 10 15 20 25 Atomic Number
W7 WDD1 CDD1 W70 WDD2 CDD2 SNIa WDD3 solar)
− Deflagration Delayed−detonation X/Fe abundance ratio (proto
0123 O Ne Mg Si S Ar Ca Cr Fe Ni 10 15 20 25 Atomic Number