Imprints of Mass Accretion History on the Shape of the Intracluster Medium and the $T_X-M$ Relation

Huanqing Chen, Camille Avestruz, Andrey V. Kravtsov +2

We use a statistical sample of galaxy clusters from a large cosmological $N$-body$+$hydrodynamics simulation to examine the relation between morphology, or shape, of the X-ray emit…