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We show that Compton scattering by electrons of the hot intergalactic gas in galaxy clusters should lead to peculiar distortions of the cosmic background X-ray and soft gamma-ray radiation—an increase in its brightness at hv ≲ 60−100 keV and a drop at higher energies. The background distortions are proportional to the cluster gas surface density, in contrast to the intensity of the thermal gas radiation proportional to the density squared, which allows the most important cluster parameters to be measured. The spectral shape of the background distortions and its dependence on the gas temperature, optical depth, and surface density distribution law have been studied using detailed Monte Carlo calculations and conformed by analytical estimations. In the cluster frame the maximum of the background decrease due to the recoil effect occurs at hv ∼ 500−600 keV. The photoionization of hydrogen- and helium-like iron and nickel ions leads to additional distortions in the background spectrum—a strong absorption line with the threshold at hv ∼ 9 keV (and also to an absorption jump at hv ≳ 2 keV for cold clusters). The absorption of intrinsic thermal radiation from the cluster gas by these ions also leads to such lines. In nearby (z ≲ 1) clusters the line at hv ∼ 2 keV is noticeably enhanced by absorption in the colder (∼106 K) plasma of their peripheral (≲3 Mpc) regions; moreover, the absorption line at hv ∼ 1.3 keV, which does not depend on the properties of the hot cluster gas, splits off from it. The redshift of distant clusters shifts the absorption lines in the background spectrum (at ∼2, ∼9, and ∼500 keV) to lower energies. Thus, in contrast to the microwave background radiation scattering effect, this effect depends on the cluster redshift z, but in a very peculiar way. When observing clusters at z ≳ 1, the effect allows one to determine how the X-ray background evolved and how it was “gathered” with z. To detect the effect, the accuracy of measurements should reach ∼0.1%. We consider the most promising clusters for observing the effect and discuss the techniques whereby the influence of the thermal gas radiation hindering the detection of background distortions should be minimal.
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S.A. Grebenev is grateful to R.A. Burenin and S.Yu. Sazonov for the useful discussion and consultations and the Basic Research Program 12 of the Russian Academy of Sciences (“Questions of the Origin and Evolution of the Universe with the Application of Methods of Ground-Based Observations and Space Research”)—for financial support. R.A. Sunyaev is grateful to the Russian Science Foundation for support by grant no. 19-12-00369. This study was performed within the “Universe” theme of the research program at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Grebenev, S.A., Sunyaev, R.A. Decrease in the Brightness of the Cosmic X-ray and Soft Gamma-ray Background toward Clusters of Galaxies. Astron. Lett. 45, 791–820 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773719120016
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