Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-01-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
32 pages. Accepted: ApJ 2000, 35 pages, Title was corrected
Scientific paper
10.1086/308882
X-ray spectral and imaging data from ASCA and ROSAT were used to measure the total mass profile in the central region of Abell 1060, a nearby and relatively poor cluster of galaxies. The ASCA X-ray spectra, after correcting for the spatial response of the X-ray telescope, show an isothermal distribution of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) within at least $\sim$ 12' (or $160h_{70}^{-1}$ kpc; $H_0 = 70 h_{70}$ km s$^{-1}$Mpc$^{-1}$) in radius of the cluster center. The azimuthally averaged surface brightness profile from the ROSAT PSPC exhibits a central excess above an isothermal $\beta$ model. The ring-sorted ASCA GIS spectra and the radial surface brightness distribution from the ROSAT PSPC were simultaneously utilized to constrain the gravitational potential profile. Some analytic models of the total mass density profile were examined. The ICM density profile was also specified by analytic forms. The ICM temperature distribution was constrained to satisfy the hydrostatic equilibrium, and to be consistent with the data. Then, the total mass distribution was found to be described better by the universal dark halo profile proposed by Navarro, Frenk, and White (1996;1997) than by a King-type model with a flat density core. A profile with a central cusp together with a logarithmic radial slope of $\sim 1.5$ was also consistent with the data. Discussions are made concerning the estimated dark matter distribution around the cluster center.
Fukazawa Yasushi
Ikebe Yasushi
Makishima Kazuo.
Tamura Takayuki
Xu Haiguang
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