Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-08-03
Astrophys.J. 616 (2004) 178-191
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astrophysical Journal, in press; 15 pages, including 11 figures and 3 tables
Scientific paper
10.1086/424911
We present an analysis of Chandra observations of the central regions of the cooling flow cluster Abell 2029. We find a number of X-ray filaments in the central 40 kpc, some of which appear to be associated with the currently active central radio galaxy. The outer southern lobe of the steep-spectrum radio source appears to be surrounded by a region of cool gas and is at least partially surrounded by a bright X-ray rim similar to that seen around radio sources in the cores of other cooling flow clusters. Spectroscopic fits show that the overall cluster emission is best fitted by either a two temperature gas (kT_high=7.47 keV, kT_low=0.11 keV), or a cooling flow model with gas cooling over the same temperature range. This large range of temperatures (over a factor of 50) is relatively unique to Abell 2029 and may suggest that this system is a very young cooling flow where the gas has only recently started cooling to low temperatures. The cooling flow model gives a mass deposition rate of Mdot=56 +16/-21 Msun/yr. In general, the cluster emission is elongated along a position angle of 22 degrees with an ellipticity of 0.26. The distribution of the X-ray emission in the central region of the cluster is asymmetric, however, with excess emission to the north-east and south-east compared to the south-west and north-west, respectively. Fitting and subtracting a smooth elliptical model from the X-ray data reveals a dipolar spiral excess extending in a clockwise direction from the cluster core to radii of ~150 kpc. We estimate a total mass of M_spiral ~6 x 10^12 Msun in the spiral excess. The most likely origins of the excess are either stripping of gas from a galaxy group or bare dark matter potential which has fallen into the cluster, or sloshing motions in the cluster core induced by a past merger.
Blanton Elizabeth L.
Clarke Tracy E.
Sarazin Craig L.
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