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Table 2.

Summary of priors for the 3D gas density and 3D temperature models (see Appendix B for equations) used in the X-ray hydrostatic mass method described in Sect. 3.1.

Density profile
n0 rc rs α β ϵ n02 rc2 β2
(cm−3) (kpc) (kpc) (cm−3) (kpc)

(10−4, 10−1) (5, 800) (100, 4000) (0, 3) (0.3, 1.5) (0, 5) (0, 10−1) (1, 70) (0.1, 5)

Temperature profile

T0 rcool acool Tmin rt a b c
(keV) (kpc) (keV) (kpc)

(0.5, 18) (10, 500) (0, 3) (0.1, 6 or T0) (100, 500) (−0.5, 0.5) (0, 5) (0, 1)

Notes. All are flat uniform priors (in linear space) with lower and upper bounds in parentheses.

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