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Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 000–000 (0000) Printed 9 May 2017 (MN L A T E X style file v2.2) Dark matter distribution in X-ray luminous galaxy clusters with Emergent Gravity S. Ettori 1,2 , V. Ghirardini 1,3 , D. Eckert 4 , F. Dubath 4 , E. Pointecouteau 5,6 1 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Pietro Gobetti 93/3, 40129 Bologna, Italy 2 INFN, Sezione di Bologna, viale Berti Pichat 6/2, I-40127 Bologna, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia Universit` a di Bologna, via Pietro Gobetti 93/2, 40129 Bologna, Italy 4 Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, ch. d’Ecogia 16, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland 5 CNRS; IRAP; 9 Av. colonel Roche, BP 44346, F-31028 Toulouse cedex 4, France 6 Universit´ e de Toulouse; UPS-OMP; IRAP; Toulouse, France 9 May 2017 ABSTRACT We present the radial distribution of the dark matter in two massive, X-ray luminous galaxy clusters, Abell 2142 and Abell 2319, and compare it with the quantity predicted as apparent manifestation of the baryonic mass in the context of the “Emergent Gravity” scenario, recently suggested from Verlinde (2016). Thanks to the observational strategy of the XMM-Newton Cluster Outskirt Programme (X-COP), using the X-ray emission mapped with XMM-Newton and the SZ signal in the Planck survey, we recover the gas density, temperature and thermal pressure profiles up to R 200 , allowing to constrain at unprecedented level the total mass through the hydrostatic equilibrium equation. We show that, also including systematic uncer- tainties related to the X-ray based mass modelling, the apparent “dark” matter shows a radial profile that has a shape different from the traditional dark matter distribution, with larger dis- crepancies (by a factor 2–3) in the inner (r< 200 kpc) cluster’s regions and a remarkable agreement only across R 500 . Key words: galaxies: clusters: general – cosmology: miscellaneous – X-rays: galaxies: clus- ters. 1 INTRODUCTION The distribution of the gravitating mass in galaxy clusters is one of the key ingredients to use them as astrophysical laboratories and cosmological probes (see e.g. Allen, Evrard & Mantz 2011, Kravtsov & Borgani 2012). In the present favourite ΛCDM sce- nario, galaxy clusters are dominated by dark matter (80% of the total mass), with a contribution in the form of hot plasma emit- ting in X-ray and detectable through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ, Sunyaev & Zeldovich 1972) effect (about 15% of the total mass, i.e. MDM/Mgas 4 - 7) and the rest in stars (few per cent; see e.g. Gonzalez et al. 2013). Although an intriguing and plausible ex- planation to the observed gravitational effects induced from galaxy clusters, the still unknown nature of the dark matter invites to con- sider alternative scenarios. In this paper, we present and discuss the application of one such alternative model, the “Emergent Gravity” theory proposed recently in Verlinde (2016), to the mass distribution in X-ray lu- minous galaxy clusters. The “Emergent Gravity” theory is a theo- retical framework in which spacetime and gravity emerge together from the entanglement structure of an underlying microscopic the- ory. Although a description of the cosmology is not yet available for this theory, where, in the approximation used by Verlinde, the dark energy dominates our universe and ordinary matter only leads to small perturbations, the use of an effective ΛCDM background cosmology to convert from angular to physical scales is still a rea- sonable approximation at the low redshift regime where we oper- ate. For the ΛCDM model, we adopt the cosmological parameters H0 = 70 km s -1 Mpc -1 and Ωm =1 - ΩΛ =0.3. In a similar context, the “Emergent Gravity” theory has already shown a good capability to reproduce the observed signal of the galaxy-galaxy lensing profiles (Brouwer et al. 2016) and the velocity dispersion profiles of eight dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way (Diez- Tejedor et al. 2016). In this study, we refer often to radii, RΔ, and masses, MΔ, that are the corresponding values estimated at the given overden- sity Δ as MΔ =4/3 π Δ ρc,zR 3 Δ , where ρc,z =3H 2 z /(8πG) is the critical density of the universe at the observed redshift z of the cluster, and Hz = H0 ΩΛ m(1 + z) 3 0.5 is the value of the Hubble constant at the same redshift. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we describe the “Emergent Gravity” scenario and how an apparent dark mat- ter distribution can be associated to the observed baryonic mass. In Section 3, we present the dark matter profiles reconstructed through techniques based on X-ray and SZ data only in two massive galaxy clusters that are part of the X-COP sample, an XMM-Newton Large Program which targets the outer regions of a sample of 13 mas- arXiv:1612.07288v2 [astro-ph.CO] 8 May 2017

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Dark matter distribution in X-ray luminous galaxy clusters withEmergent Gravity

S. Ettori1,2, V. Ghirardini1,3, D. Eckert4, F. Dubath4, E. Pointecouteau5,61 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Pietro Gobetti 93/3, 40129 Bologna, Italy2 INFN, Sezione di Bologna, viale Berti Pichat 6/2, I-40127 Bologna, Italy3 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia Universita di Bologna, via Pietro Gobetti 93/2, 40129 Bologna, Italy4 Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, ch. d’Ecogia 16, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland5 CNRS; IRAP; 9 Av. colonel Roche, BP 44346, F-31028 Toulouse cedex 4, France6 Universite de Toulouse; UPS-OMP; IRAP; Toulouse, France

9 May 2017

ABSTRACTWe present the radial distribution of the dark matter in two massive, X-ray luminous galaxyclusters, Abell 2142 and Abell 2319, and compare it with the quantity predicted as apparentmanifestation of the baryonic mass in the context of the “Emergent Gravity” scenario, recentlysuggested from Verlinde (2016). Thanks to the observational strategy of the XMM-NewtonCluster Outskirt Programme (X-COP), using the X-ray emission mapped with XMM-Newtonand the SZ signal in the Planck survey, we recover the gas density, temperature and thermalpressure profiles up to ∼ R200, allowing to constrain at unprecedented level the total massthrough the hydrostatic equilibrium equation. We show that, also including systematic uncer-tainties related to the X-ray based mass modelling, the apparent “dark” matter shows a radialprofile that has a shape different from the traditional dark matter distribution, with larger dis-crepancies (by a factor 2–3) in the inner (r < 200 kpc) cluster’s regions and a remarkableagreement only across R500.

Key words: galaxies: clusters: general – cosmology: miscellaneous – X-rays: galaxies: clus-ters.

1 INTRODUCTION

The distribution of the gravitating mass in galaxy clusters is oneof the key ingredients to use them as astrophysical laboratoriesand cosmological probes (see e.g. Allen, Evrard & Mantz 2011,Kravtsov & Borgani 2012). In the present favourite ΛCDM sce-nario, galaxy clusters are dominated by dark matter (80% of thetotal mass), with a contribution in the form of hot plasma emit-ting in X-ray and detectable through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ,Sunyaev & Zeldovich 1972) effect (about 15% of the total mass,i.e. MDM/Mgas ∼ 4 − 7) and the rest in stars (few per cent; seee.g. Gonzalez et al. 2013). Although an intriguing and plausible ex-planation to the observed gravitational effects induced from galaxyclusters, the still unknown nature of the dark matter invites to con-sider alternative scenarios.

In this paper, we present and discuss the application of onesuch alternative model, the “Emergent Gravity” theory proposedrecently in Verlinde (2016), to the mass distribution in X-ray lu-minous galaxy clusters. The “Emergent Gravity” theory is a theo-retical framework in which spacetime and gravity emerge togetherfrom the entanglement structure of an underlying microscopic the-ory. Although a description of the cosmology is not yet availablefor this theory, where, in the approximation used by Verlinde, thedark energy dominates our universe and ordinary matter only leads

to small perturbations, the use of an effective ΛCDM backgroundcosmology to convert from angular to physical scales is still a rea-sonable approximation at the low redshift regime where we oper-ate. For the ΛCDM model, we adopt the cosmological parametersH0 = 70 km s−1 Mpc−1 and Ωm = 1 − ΩΛ = 0.3. In a similarcontext, the “Emergent Gravity” theory has already shown a goodcapability to reproduce the observed signal of the galaxy-galaxylensing profiles (Brouwer et al. 2016) and the velocity dispersionprofiles of eight dwarf spheroidal satellites of the Milky Way (Diez-Tejedor et al. 2016).

In this study, we refer often to radii, R∆, and masses, M∆,that are the corresponding values estimated at the given overden-sity ∆ as M∆ = 4/3π∆ ρc,zR

3∆, where ρc,z = 3H2

z/(8πG) isthe critical density of the universe at the observed redshift z of thecluster, and Hz = H0

[ΩΛ + Ωm(1 + z)3

]0.5 is the value of theHubble constant at the same redshift.

The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we describethe “Emergent Gravity” scenario and how an apparent dark mat-ter distribution can be associated to the observed baryonic mass. InSection 3, we present the dark matter profiles reconstructed throughtechniques based on X-ray and SZ data only in two massive galaxyclusters that are part of the X-COP sample, an XMM-Newton LargeProgram which targets the outer regions of a sample of 13 mas-

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sive clusters in the redshift range 0.04 − 0.1 at uniform depth. InSection 4, we compare these dark matter profiles with the ones re-covered though “Emergent Gravity”, assessing the systematic un-certainties affecting the X-ray mass measurements, and summarizeour main findings in Section 5. Unless mentioned otherwise, thequoted errors are statistical uncertainties at 1σ confidence level.

2 APPARENT DARK MATTER IN THE EMERGENTGRAVITY

In the ‘Emergent Gravity”, dark matter can appear as manifesta-tion of an additional gravitational force describing the “elastic” re-sponse due to the entropy displacement, and with a strength that canbe described in terms of the Hubble constant and of the baryonicmass distribution for a spherically symmetric, static and isolatedastronomical system as (equation 7.40 in Verlinde 2016):∫ r

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r′2dr′ =

MB(r) cH0 r

6. (1)

By operating the derivatives with respect to the radius of the twoterms, and rearranging the quantities to isolate the dark matter com-ponent MDM, it is straightforward to show that the following rela-tion holds:

M2DM,EG(r) =

cH0

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dr

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(MB(r) + r

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dr

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)=

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6Gr2MB(r) (1 + 3δB) , (2)

where MB(r) =∫ r

04πρBr

′2dr′ = Mgas(r) + Mstar(r) is thebaryonic mass equal to the sum of the gas and stellar masses, and

δB is equal to ρB(r)/ρB, with ρB = MB(r)/V (< r) represent-ing the mean baryon density within the spherical volume V (< r).In our case, the gas mass has been obtained from the integral overthe cluster’s volume of the gas density that is obtained from the ge-ometrical deprojection of the observed surface brightness (Fig. 1)including a careful treatment of the background subtraction. Thisallows to resolve the signal out to about R200. The stellar masshas been estimated using a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW, Navarroet al. 1997) profile with a concentration of 2.9 (see e.g. Lin et al.2004) and by requiring the Mstar(< R500)/Mgas(< R500) =

0.39(M500/1014M

)−0.84 (Gonzalez et al. 2013).It is worth noticing that Eq. 2 can be expressed as an accel-

eration gEG depending on the acceleration gB induced from thebaryonic mass

gEG = GMDM,EG +MB

r2

= gB

(1 + y−1/2

), (3)

where y = 6/(cH0)×gB/(1+3δB). Equation 3 takes a form verysimilar to the one implemented in MOND (e.g. Milgrom & Sanders2016) with a characteristic acceleration a0 = cH0(1 + 3δB)/6.

3 DARK MATTER WITH THE HYDROSTATICEQUILIBRIUM EQUATION

We evaluate how the apparent dark matter profile described in eq. 2reproduces the mass distribution recovered by using the hydro-static equilibrium equation applied to two massive, X-ray lumi-nous galaxy clusters that are part of the X-COP sample. The XMM-Newton Cluster Outskirts Project (X-COP; Eckert et al. 2016) hasbeen built to target the outer regions of a sample of 13 massiveclusters (M500 > 3 × 1014M) in the redshift range 0.04 − 0.1at uniform depth. The sample was selected based on the signal-

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Figure 2. (From top to bottom) Observed deprojected electron density, temperature and SZ pressure profiles, with the statistical error bars overplotted. Thedashed lines indicate the temperature and pressure profiles required from the best-fitting NFW mass model for the given gas density profile (see Sect. 3).

to-noise ratio in the Planck SZ survey (Planck Collaboration et al.2011) with the aim of combining high-quality X-ray and SZ con-straints throughout the entire cluster volume. Our observing strat-egy allows us to reach a sensitivity of 3 × 10−16 ergs cm−2 s−1

arcmin−2 in the [0.5-2.0] keV range thanks to a good control ofsystematic uncertainties. The two objects in exam, Abell 2142 andAbell 2319, are the first targets of the X-COP sample for which thecomplete XMM-Newton analysis of their gas properties out toR200

has been completed (see Fig. 1). Abell 2142 (z = 0.091) showsa relatively relaxed morphology extended along the SE/NW axis,and is undergoing some minor mergers in its outskirts (Owers et al.2011; Eckert et al. 2014). This cluster was mapped in the frame-work of X-COP pilot project (Tchernin et al. 2016). Abell 2319(z = 0.056, Struble & Rood 1999) is also a massive system inwhich the galaxy distribution indicates that it is a merger of twomain components with a 3:1 mass ratio, the smaller system beinglocated ∼ 10′ north of the main structure (Oegerle et al. 1995). Thecluster exhibits a prominent cold front SE of the main core (Ghiz-zardi et al. 2010) and a giant radio halo (Farnsworth et al. 2013;Storm et al. 2015). This is one of the most significant SZ detectionsin the Planck catalogue (Planck Collaboration et al. 2014) and itscomplete X-ray analysis, combined with the SZ pressure profileand resolved in 8 azimuthal sectors, will be presented in a forth-coming paper (Ghirardini et al. in prep.). Considering the mergingstate of this galaxy cluster, we present here the analysis performedin the most relaxed sector, the one enclosed between Position An-gles 180 and 225. Under a reasonable approximation, these clus-ters are following Verlinde’s prescriptions for the validity of the EGmodelling: they are reasonably spherical, quite isolated (being notembedded in the potential well of any neighbour objects and withno major mass accretion), and with the largest baryonic compo-nent, the hot plasma mapped in X-ray and SZ bands, in hydrostaticequilibrium.

The physical quantities directly observable are the densityngas and temperature Tgas of the X-ray emitting gas, and the SZpressure profile Pgas. The gas density is obtained from the geomet-

rical deprojection of the X-ray surface brightness in Fig. 1. Thanksto the observational strategy implemented in X-COP, we are ableto correct the X-ray emission for the presence of clumps both bymasking substructures spatially resolved with XMM-Newton and bymeasuring the azimuthal median, instead of the azimuthal mean,out to ∼ 1.2R200, with a median relative uncertainty of 6% and1% in A2142 and A2319, respectively. The estimates of the gastemperature are based on the modelling with an absorbed thermalcomponent of the XMM-Newton spectra extracted from concentricannuli around the X-ray peak in the [0.5–12] keV energy band andcorrected from the local sky background components (see Tcherninet al. 2016 for details). A typical statistical error lower than 5% isassociated to these spectral measurements, with a profile resolvedin 12 bins out to 1.4 Mpc in A2142 and in 14 bins out to 1.9 Mpc inA2319. The SZ electron pressure profile is obtained from the depro-jection of the azimuthally-averaged integrated Comptonization pa-rameter y extracted from a re-analysis of the SZ signal mapped withPlanck (e.g. Tchernin et al. 2016, Planck Collaboration et al. 2013)and that extends up to ∼ 3 and 4 Mpc in A2142 and A2319, respec-tively. The electron density, temperature and SZ pressure profilesare presented in Fig. 2.

Under the assumption that the intracluster medium has aspherically-symmetric distribution and follows the perfect gas law(Pgas = kTgasngas, where k is the Boltzmann’s constant, and ngas

is the sum of the electron and proton densities ne +np ≈ 1.83ne),the gas density, combined with the X-ray spectral measurementsof the gas temperature and/or the SZ derived gas pressure, allowsto evaluate the total mass within a radius r through the hydrostaticequilibrium equation (see e.g. Ettori et al. 2013)

Mtot(< r) = − r Pgas

µmuGngas

d logPgas

d log r, (4)

where G is the gravitational constant, mu = 1.66 × 10−24 g is theatomic mass unit, and µ = 0.61 is the mean molecular weight inatomic mass unit. In this analysis, we have applied both the back-ward and the forward method. In the backward method, a para-metric mass model is assumed and combined with the gas den-

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Figure 3. Dark matter profiles obtained using (i) the backward method with a NFW mass model; (ii) the forward method by fitting with functional forms thegas density profile and either the deprojected temperature profile (A2142) or the SZ pressure profile (A2319). In the latter case, the mass profiles are shownonly within the radial range where the data are fitted. The dark matter profiles (blue curve) predicted from the “Emergent Gravity” framework as obtained fromequation 2 are also shown. The thickness of the lines shows the statistical uncertainty associated to the best-fit mass model. Dotted/dashed/solid lines indicateR500/R200/outermost radius of the extracted gas density profile, respectively, as estimated in the X-ray analysis. In the bottom panel, the ratio between theNFW mass model and MDM,EG is shown.

sity profile to predict a gas temperature profile that is then com-pared, through e.g. a χ2 minimization, with the one either mea-sured in the spectral analysis or estimated as SZ Pgas/ngas (los-ing the spatial resolution in the inner regions because of the mod-est 7 arcmin FWHM angular resolution of our Planck SZ maps,but gaining in radial extension due to the Planck spatial coverage;Planck Collaboration et al. 2013) to constrain the mass model pa-rameters. Here, we combine both sets of constraints by summingup χ2

T =∑Nx

i (Ti − Tmod,i)2 /ε2T,i, that is estimated from the

spectral measurements of the gas temperature (and relative errorsεT ) resolved inNx radial bins, and χ2

SZ = ∆TC−1∆, that is eval-uated from the SZ pressure profile resolved in NSZ radial bins,by defining the elements of the matrix ∆ as ∆ij = Pi − Pmod,j

and properly weighting by its covariance matrix C. In the presentanalysis, we adopt a NFW mass model with two free parame-ters, the mass concentration and R200. This mass model providesa better representation (i.e. lower χ2) of our data than any massmodel including a central core. The statistical error associated tothe mass is evaluated at each radius considering the range of themass values allowed from the distribution of the best-fitted param-eters within a ∆χ2 = 2.3. The temperature and pressure pro-files required from the best-fitting NFW mass model are shownin Fig. 2. In the forward method, some functional forms are fit-ted to the gas density profile and the deprojected gas tempera-ture (or pressure) profile. The hydrostatic equilibrium equation(eq. 4) is then directly applied to evaluate the radial distributionof the mass. The errors are estimated through a Monte-Carlo pro-cess. The functional forms used to reproduce the profiles are adouble β−model for the gas density (Cavaliere & Fusco-Femiano1976), a 6-parameters function for the temperature, T = p0 (p3 +(r/p1)p4)/(1 + (r/p1)p4)/(1 + (r/p2)2)p5 (e.g. Vikhlinin et al.2006, Baldi et al. 2012), or 5-parameters generalized NFW for the

pressure, P = p0/ ((r/p1)p2(1 + (r/p1)p3)(p4−p2)/p3 (e.g. Ar-naud et al. 2010).

4 RESULTS ON THE DARK MATTER MASS PROFILES

From equation 4, using a backward method with a NFW model, wemeasure in A2142 a total mass of M500 = 8.7 × 1014M, with arelative statistical error of 3 per cent, and R200 = 2211 ± 47 kpc,with the gas density that extends up to r = 2890 kpc. As discussedin Tchernin et al. (2016), the hydrostatic mass profile agrees wellwith the one obtained by weak lensing and caustics measurementsout to R200. In A2319, we measure M500 = 7.5 × 1014M, witha relative statistical error of 2 per cent, andR200 = 2084±13 kpc,with the outermost radius for the gas density at 3 Mpc. A system-atic uncertainty of about 10 per cent on these mass measurementsis estimated by applying the forward method (with both the tem-perature and pressure profiles). The dark matter distribution is thenMDM = Mtot −MB, where MB is the baryonic mass estimatedas described in Section 2.

In Figure 3, we show the mass profiles obtained both in acontext of a ΛCDM model and following the prescriptions for anemergent dark matter contribution. An encouraging match betweenthe two mass profiles is obtained at r ≈ R500, where we mea-sure MDM/MDM,EG = 1.01 ± 0.04 in A2142 and 0.81 ± 0.02 inA2319, where the errors include only the propagation of the statis-tical uncertainties. On the contrary, MDM,EG underpredicts signif-icantly, by up to a factor of 2−3, the requested amount of matter tomaintain the hydrostatic equilibrium in the central regions, r < 200kpc. We conclude that, although the total masses within ≈ R500 arein good agreement, the overall shape of the DM profiles looks quitedifferent, with EG lacking some NFW-type curvature.

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By inverting the hydrostatic equilibrium equation, and assum-ing as boundary condition Pout = P (R500), we can also estimatethe gas temperature profiles that the computedMDM,EG would im-ply for the measured gas density profiles. The tension below 1000kpc can then be translated in a difference in the gas temperature of2–4 keV, that can be hardly accommodated with the present obser-vational constraints 1.

5 CONCLUSIONS

We have investigated the dark matter profiles in two massive X-rayluminous galaxy clusters for which the gas density and temperature(from XMM-Newton X-ray data) and SZ pressure profiles (fromPlanck) are recovered at very high accuracy up to about R200. Byapplying the hydrostatic equilibrium equation on these profiles, weconstrain the dark matter distribution using different methods andmodels, obtaining results consistent within ∼ 10 per cent. Othersystematic uncertainties might affect our mass reconstruction, suchas any other (e.g. non-thermal) contribution to the total gas pres-sure (e.g. Nelson et al. 2014b, Sereno et al. 2017), other terms thataccount for departures from the hydrostatic equilibrium (e.g. Nel-son et al. 2014a, Biffi et al. 2016), or the violation of the assumedsphericity of the gas distribution (e.g. Sereno et al. 2017). All thesecontributions have been shown to affect more significantly the clus-ters’ outskirts and tend to bias higher (by 10-30%) the total mass es-timates at r > R500, with lower effects in the inner regions. How-ever, in A2142, we observe an excellent agreement between thereconstructed mass profiles using X-ray, weak lensing and galaxydynamics (Tchernin et al. 2016), suggesting that, at least for thissystem, the hydrostatic equilibrium is a valid approximation allow-ing a robust constraint of the mass profile out to R200.

Then, we compare those to MDM,EG, the value predicted toplay the role of an apparent dark matter as manifestation of an ex-cess of gravity in the “Emergent Gravity” scenario suggested inVerlinde (2016), that has the appealing property to depend only onthe observed baryonic mass and the Hubble constant, with no ex-tra free parameter. To this aim, we recover the baryonic mass asthe sum of the observed gas mass and of the statistically estimatedmass in stars. We observe that MDM,EG reproduces well the darkmatter distribution requested to maintain the gas in pressure equi-librium beyond 1 Mpc from the cluster core, with a remarkablegood match at r ≈ R500, but presents significant discrepancies (bya factor 2 − 3) in the innermost 200 kpc.

We note that any underestimate of the hydrostatic mass (in theorder of 10 per cent or less, if any, in the latest analyses of samplesof galaxy clusters -e.g. Mahdavi et al. 2013, Donahue et al. 2014,Applegate et al. 2016, Smith et al. 2016; bias that we exclude inA2142 as discussed in Tchernin et al. 2016) would imply a highertrue mass at larger radii shifting the radius at which MDM,EG andthe expected dark matter value agree. Considering the extremelytight constraints on the gas density that come from the exquisitecombination of high statistics and control of the systematics in thebackground modelling, the only way to reconcile this discrepancywould require a systematic over-estimate of the gas temperature by2–4 keV at r < 1000 kpc, that is completely inconsistent with the

1 By comparing the predicted and the observed temperature profiles, weestimate a ∆χ2 between ∼200 (for A2319) and 830 (A2142) in disfavourof the MDM,EG. The null hypothesis that the NFW model, with two freeparameters, does not provide a better representation of the data than EG,with no free parameters, is excluded at > 99 per cent).

present observational constraints, also accounting for potential sys-tematics due to the calibration of the X-ray instruments (e.g. Schel-lenberger et al. 2015). Otherwise, this discrepancy might suggestthat some temperature (or gas entropy) contribution, with an effectcomparable with a modulation by some scale radius and larger inthe inner cluster’s regions, is still missing in the Verlinde’s formula.Massive (probably sterile) neutrinos can also accomodate this ten-sion (e.g. Nieuwenhuizen 2016).

A larger sample of high-quality data, as the ones that will beavailable in the X-COP project in the next future, will improve thestatistical constraints on the reliability of any alternative scenario,as the “Emergent Gravity” here discussed, to the dark matter.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank the anonymous referee for helpful comments that im-proved the presentation of the work. This research has receivedfunding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme un-der AHEAD project (grant agreement n. 654215). We thank Guil-laume Hurier to have generated the Planck SZ maps used in X-COP.SE acknowledges the financial support from contracts ASI-INAFI/009/10/0, NARO15 ASI-INAF I/037/12/0 and ASI 2015-046-R.0.

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