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Table 4

Observationally determined slopes of the M − T relation.

Relation Slope Comments Reference

M500 − T 1.64 ± 0.04 88 clusters, ROSAT/ASCA Finoguenov01
Mprof − T 1.78 ± 0.01 Finoguenov01
M500 − Ta 1.48 ± 0.12 75 clusters, ROSAT/ASCA Finoguenov01
M2500 − T 1.51 ± 0.27 6 relaxed clusters Allen01
M200 − Tb 1.84 ± 0.06 groups and clusters Sanderson03
M500 − T 1.71 ± 0.09 28 clusters, z = 0.4−1.3 Ettori04
M500 − T 1.71 ± 0.09 10 relaxed clusters Arnaud05
M500 − Tc 1.49 ± 0.15 6 relaxed clusters Arnaud05
M200 − Td 1.25 ± 0.37 11 clusters, z = 0.6 − 1.0 Maughan06
M2500 − Td 2.01 ± 0.26 Maughan06
M500 − Tm 1.58 ± 0.11 13 relaxed clusters Vikhlinin06
M500 − Tspec 1.47 ± 0.10 Vikhlinin06
M500 − T 1.74 ± 0.09 70 clusters, z = 0.18 − 1.24 O’Hara07
M500 − Te 1.56 ± 0.10 O’Hara07
M2500 − T 1.63 ± 0.18 27 RCS & CNOC clusters Hicks08
M500 − T 1.72 ± 0.18 13 RCS clusters, z = 0.6−1.1 Hicks08
M500 − Tf 1.65 ± 0.26 37 clusters, XMM-Newton Zhang08
M500 − Tg 1.53 ± 0.08 17 clusters, Chandra Vikhlinin09
M500 − T 1.76 ± 0.08 14 literature samples Reichert11

Notes.  The references are from top to bottom: Finoguenov et al. (2001), Allen & Fabian (2001), Sanderson et al. (2003), Ettori et al. (2004), Arnaud et al. (2005), Maughan et al. (2006), Vikhlinin et al. (2006), O’Hara et al. (2007), Hicks et al. (2008), Zhang et al. (2008), Vikhlinin et al. (2009), Reichert et al. (2011).

(a)

Limited to systems with temperature  ≥3 keV.

(b)

Limited to systems with temperature  ≥0.6 keV.

(c)

Limited to systems with temperature  ≥3.5 keV.

(d)

Masses determined assuming isothermal ICM.

(e)

Core excised LX and T with r ≥ 0.2r500.

(f)

Temperatures for r = 0.2−0.5 × r500.

(g)

Core-excised temperatures with r = 0.15−1 × r500.

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