Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-09-19
Astron.Astrophys. 396 (2002) 65-72
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages with encapsulated figures, A&A in press
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20021366
In this paper we study A3560, a rich cluster at the southern periphery of the A3558 complex, a chain of interacting clusters in the central part of the Shapley Concentration supercluster. From a ROSAT-PSPC map we find that the X-ray surface brightness distribution of A3560 is well described by two components, an elliptical King law and a more peaked and fainter structure, which has been modeled with a Gaussian. The main component, corresponding to the cluster, is elongated with the major axis pointing toward the A3558 complex. The second component, centered on the Dumb-bell galaxy which dominates the cluster, appears significantly offset (by about 0.15 Mpc) from the cluster X-ray centroid. From a Beppo-SAX observation we derive the radial temperature profile, finding that the temperature is constant (at kT~3.7 keV) up to 8 arcmin, corresponding to 0.3 Mpc: for larger distances, the temperature significantly drops to kT~1.7 keV. We analyze also temperature maps, dividing the cluster in 4 sectors and deriving the temperature profiles in each sector: we find that the temperature drop is more sudden in the sectors which point towards the A3558 complex. From VLA radio data, at 20 and 6 cm, we find a peculiar bright extended radio source (J1332-3308), composed by a core (centered on the northern component of the Dumb-bell galaxy), two lobes, a "filament" and a diffuse component. The morphology of the source could be interpreted either with a strong interaction of the radio source with the intracluster medium or with the model of intermittency of the central engine.
Bardelli Sandro
de Grandi Sabrina
Ettori Stefano
Molendi Silvano
Venturi Tiziana
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