Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-10-16
A & A, 363, 440 (2000)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 10 postscript figures, use aa.sty, to appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The cluster Abell 2104 is one of the lowest redshift clusters (z=0.153) known to have a gravitational lensing arc. We present detailed analysis of the cluster properties such as the gravitational potential using the X-ray data from ROSAT (HRI) and ASCA, as well as optical imaging and spectroscopic data from the CFHT. The cluster is highly luminous in the X-ray with a bolometric luminosity of Lx ~3x10^{45} ergs/s and a high gas temperature of ~10.4 keV. The X-ray emission extending out to at least a radius of 1.46 Mpc, displays significant substructure. The total mass deduced from the X-ray data under the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium and isothermal gas, is found to be M_tot(r<1.46Mpc) ~(8.0 +/- 0.8)x10^{14} solar mass. The gas fraction within a radius of 1.46 Mpc is ~5-10%. The cluster galaxy velocity distribution has a dispersion of 1200 +/- 200 km/s with no obvious evidence for substructure. The total mass within 1.46 Mpc, deduced from Jean's equation using the observed galaxy number density distribution and velocity dispersion, is found to be \~6.8x10^{14} solar mass to ~2.6x10^{15} solar mass marginally consistent with the X-ray deduced total mass.
Lemonon L.
Liang Haida
Pierre Mandrou
Soucail Genevieve
Valtchanov Ivan
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