Calcium-rich Gap Transients: Solving the Calcium Conundrum in the
  Intracluster Medium
  X-ray measurements suggest the abundance of Calcium in the intracluster
medium is higher than can be explained using favored models for core-collapse
and Type Ia supernovae alone. We investigate whether the Calcium conundrum in
the intracluster medium can be alleviated by including a contribution from the
recently discovered subclass of supernovae known as Calcium-rich gap
transients. Although the Calcium-rich gap transients make up only a small
fraction of all supernovae events, we find that their high Calcium yields are
sufficient to reproduce the X-ray measurements found for nearby rich clusters.
We find the $\chi^{2}$ goodness-of-fit metric improves from 84 to 2 by
including this new class. Moreover, Calcium-rich supernovae preferentially
occur in the outskirts of galaxies making it easier for the nucleosynthesis
products of these events to be incorporated in the intracluster medium via
ram-pressure stripping. The discovery of a Calcium-rich gap transients in
clusters and groups far from any individual galaxy suggests supernovae
associated with intracluster stars may play an important role in enriching the
intracluster medium. Calcium-rich gap transients may also help explain
anomalous Calcium abundances in many other astrophysical systems including
individual stars in the Milky Way, the halos of nearby galaxies and the
circumgalactic medium. Our work highlights the importance of considering the
diversity of supernovae types and corresponding yields when modeling the
abundance of the intracluster medium and other gas reservoirs.
