Chandra Observations of the Disruption of the Cool Core in Abell 133

Details Chandra Observations of the Disruption of the Cool Core in Abell 133 Chandra Observations of the Disruption of the Cool Core in Abell 133

2002-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204188v1

Astrophys.J. 575 (2002) 764-778

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

38 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/341352

We present the analysis of a Chandra observation of the galaxy cluster Abell 133, which has a cooling flow core, a central radio source, and a diffuse, filamentary radio source which has been classified as a radio relic. The X-ray image shows that the core has a complex structure. The most prominent feature is a "tongue" of emission which extends from the central cD galaxy to the northwest and partly overlaps the radio relic. One possibility is that this tongue is produced by Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instabilities through the interaction between the cold gas around the cD galaxy and hot intracluster medium. We estimate the critical velocity and time scale for the KH instability to be effective for the cold core around the cD galaxy. We find that the KH instability can disrupt the cold core if the relative velocity is >~400 km s^-1. We compare the results with those of clusters in which sharp, undisrupted cold fronts have been observed; in these clusters, the low temperature gas in their central regions has a more regular distribution. In contrast to Abell 133, these cluster cores have longer timescales for the disruption of the core by the KH instability when they are normalized to the timescale of the cD galaxy motion. Thus, the other cores are less vulnerable to KH instability. Another possible origin of the tongue is that it is gas which has been uplifted by a buoyant bubble of nonthermal plasma that we identify with the observed radio relic. From the position of the bubble and the radio estimate of the age of the relic source, we estimate avelocity of ~700 km s^-1 for the bubble. The structure of the bubble and this velocity are consistent with numerical models for such buoyant bubbles. (abridged)

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