The Nearest Neighbor Alignment of Cluster X-ray Isophotes

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2001-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102218v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Moderate revisions, including additional test for systematic error. Conclusions unchanged. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/324278

We examine the orientations of rich galaxy cluster X-ray isophotes with respect to their rich nearest neighbors using existing samples of Abell cluster position angles measured from {\it Einstein} and {\it ROSAT} observations. We study a merged subset of these samples using updated and improved positions and redshifts for Abell/ACO clusters. We find high confidence for alignment, which increases as nearest neighbor distance is restricted. We conclude that there is a strong alignment signal in all this data, consistent with gravitational instability acting on Gaussian perturbations.

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