Thermal or Non-thermal? Diffuse emission in the infall region of stacked galaxy groups

arXiv:2607.27804 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

E. Bulbul, X. Zhang, Z. Ding, T. Mistele, M. Kluge, E. Artis, Y. E. Bahar, K. Dennerl, D. Eckert, L. Fiorino, P. F. Hopkins, N. Malavasi, A. Merloni, K. Nandra, E. Quataert, M. E. Ramos-Ceja, J. S. Sanders, J. Strunk, S. Zelmer

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Comments: Submitted to A&A, 12 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 23× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Inverse Compton — 15× in this paper
• Calibration — 12× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accretion Shock — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosmic X-ray Background — 4× in this paper
• Metallicity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AGN Feedback — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics — 2× in this paper
• Bayesian Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bayesian X-ray Analysis — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Society of PhotoOptical Instrumentation Engineers — 1× in this paper
• Spectrum Roentgen Gamma — 1× in this paper

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• The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey: X-ray scaling relations of galaxy groups and clusters in the western Galactic hemisphere
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