Disentangling AGN Feedback and Sloshing in the Perseus Cluster with XRISM: Insights from Simulations
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| author | Bellomi, Elena ZuHone, John A. Truong, Nhut Zhuravleva, Irina Weinberger, Rainer Pfrommer, Christoph Zhang, Congyao Heinrich, Annie Ruszkowski, Mateusz McNamara, Brian Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie Gendron-Marsolais, Marie-Lou Vigneron, Benjamin |
| author_facet | Bellomi, Elena ZuHone, John A. Truong, Nhut Zhuravleva, Irina Weinberger, Rainer Pfrommer, Christoph Zhang, Congyao Heinrich, Annie Ruszkowski, Mateusz McNamara, Brian Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie Gendron-Marsolais, Marie-Lou Vigneron, Benjamin |
| contents | High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with XRISM has revealed complex, non-monotonic velocity dispersion profiles in the Perseus cluster, pointing to a complex interplay between at least two physical drivers of motions caused by dynamical processes within the intracluster medium (ICM). To further explore this conclusion, we perform a suite of idealized, controlled simulations targeting the relative roles of merger-induced sloshing and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. Our models systematically isolate and combine these mechanisms to predict observable velocity profiles and X-ray line shapes, providing direct comparison to XRISM and Hitomi data. We find that neither sloshing nor AGN activity alone can reproduce the observed velocity dispersion profile; only their combined action matches the elevated dispersions both at the cluster core and outskirts. Power-spectrum analysis reveals distinct spatial signatures: sloshing generates large-scale coherent motions, while AGN feedback injects turbulence and broadens the velocity spectrum at small scales, especially in the core. By forward-modeling spectral line profiles, we show how these dynamics imprint unique observational signatures on X-ray emission. Our results underscore the necessity of accounting for both large-scale and small-scale drivers of gas motions in the ICM when interpreting high-resolution spectroscopic data, and provide guidance for the analysis of forthcoming XRISM observations. |
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| spellingShingle | Disentangling AGN Feedback and Sloshing in the Perseus Cluster with XRISM: Insights from Simulations Bellomi, Elena ZuHone, John A. Truong, Nhut Zhuravleva, Irina Weinberger, Rainer Pfrommer, Christoph Zhang, Congyao Heinrich, Annie Ruszkowski, Mateusz McNamara, Brian Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie Gendron-Marsolais, Marie-Lou Vigneron, Benjamin High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with XRISM has revealed complex, non-monotonic velocity dispersion profiles in the Perseus cluster, pointing to a complex interplay between at least two physical drivers of motions caused by dynamical processes within the intracluster medium (ICM). To further explore this conclusion, we perform a suite of idealized, controlled simulations targeting the relative roles of merger-induced sloshing and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. Our models systematically isolate and combine these mechanisms to predict observable velocity profiles and X-ray line shapes, providing direct comparison to XRISM and Hitomi data. We find that neither sloshing nor AGN activity alone can reproduce the observed velocity dispersion profile; only their combined action matches the elevated dispersions both at the cluster core and outskirts. Power-spectrum analysis reveals distinct spatial signatures: sloshing generates large-scale coherent motions, while AGN feedback injects turbulence and broadens the velocity spectrum at small scales, especially in the core. By forward-modeling spectral line profiles, we show how these dynamics imprint unique observational signatures on X-ray emission. Our results underscore the necessity of accounting for both large-scale and small-scale drivers of gas motions in the ICM when interpreting high-resolution spectroscopic data, and provide guidance for the analysis of forthcoming XRISM observations. |
| title | Disentangling AGN Feedback and Sloshing in the Perseus Cluster with XRISM: Insights from Simulations |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12754 |