The Velocity Dispersion -- Temperature Correlation from a Limited Cluster Sample

Abstract

Most studies of correlations between X-ray and optical properties of galaxy clusters have used the largest samples of data available, regardless of the morphological types of clusters included. Given the increasing evidence that morphology is related to a cluster's degree of dynamical evolution, we approach the study of X-ray and optical correlations differently. We evaluate the relationship between velocity dispersion and temperature for a limited set of galaxy clusters taken from Bird (1994), which all possess dominant central galaxies and which have been explicitly corrected for the presence of substructure. We find that ${\sigma }_r\propto T^{0.61\pm 0.13}$. We use a Monte Carlo computer routine to estimate the significance of this deviation from the ${\sigma }_r\propto T^{0.5}$ relationship predicted by the virial theorem. We find that the simulated correlation is steeper than the observed value only 4\% of the time, suggesting that the deviation is significant. The combination of protogalactic winds and dynamical friction reproduces nearly exactly the observed relationship between ${\sigma }_r$ and $T$.

27 pages, LaTeX, requires aasms.sty and epsf.tex; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 2 PostScript figures, as well as PostScript version of complete paper, available by anonymous ftp from ftp://kula.phsx.ukans.edu/

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