The origin of X-ray emission of two distant (z>1) cluster candidate with XMM-Newton

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2003-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304407v1

Astron.Astrophys. 406 (2003) 789-796

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A, 8 pages, 4 figures, figure 1 submitted as jpeg file

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20030657

We present here a study of XMM-Newton data of two distant galaxy cluster candidates. One of these was discovered serendipitously in near infrared data, CL J0533-2411, the other one corresponds to the cluster EIS J0533-2412 part of the EIS cluster survey. The estimated redshift of CL J0533-2411 is z=1.2-1.7. EIS J0533-2412 is a rich system (Lambda_cl=299), with a spectroscopically confirmed redshift of z=1.3. Both galaxy concentrations show firm X-ray detections, located within 30" of their optical center. However, we cannot resolve the sources with XMM-Newton. If the X-ray emission originates from the X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium (ICM) it would be extremely concentrated which is rather unlikely (core radii below 14 h_{65}^{-1}kpc and 40 h_{65}^{-1}kpc, respectively). We argue that the X-ray sources are more likely AGN members of the galaxy concentrations. We set an upper limit for the bolometric luminosity of a hot ICM in the range ~0.7-2.1 10^{44} h_{65}^{-2}erg/s for CL J0533-2411, depending on the exact redshift. For EIS J0533-2412 the limit is L_bol=(6.2+/-1.4) 10^{43} h_{65}^{-2}erg/s. We interpret our result in the following way: EIS J0533-2412 (and possibly CL J0533-2411) are proto-clusters and show matter overdensities before collapse, which explains the low significance of extended X-ray emission.

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