The history of metal enrichment traced by X-ray observations of high-redshift galaxy clusters

We present the analysis of deep X-ray observations of 10 massive galaxy clusters at redshifts $1.05 < z < 1.71$, with the primary goal of measuring the metallicity of the intracluster medium (ICM) at intermediate radii, to better constrain models of the metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium. The targets were selected from X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect surveys, and observed with both the \textit{XMM-Newton} and \textit{Chandra} satellites. For each cluster, a precise gas mass profile was extracted, from which the value of $r_{500}$ could be estimated. This allows us to define consistent radial ranges over which the metallicity measurements can be compared. In general, the data are of sufficient quality to extract meaningful metallicity measurements in two radial bins, $r<0.3r_{500}$ and $0.3

Keywords:

• Metallicity
• Physics
• Metal
• Galaxy cluster
• Astrophysics
• Power law
• Intracluster medium
• Cluster (physics)
• X-ray
• Redshift

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