The build-up of the Coma cluster by infalling substructures

Details The build-up of the Coma cluster by infalling substructures The build-up of the Coma cluster by infalling substructures

2005-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507542v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 10 Postscript figures, accepted in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053504

We present a new multiwavelength analysis of the Coma cluster subclustering based on recent X-ray data and on a compilation of nearly 900 redshifts. We characterize subclustering using the Serna&Gerbal (1996) hierarchical method which makes use of galaxy positions, redshifts, and magnitudes, and identify 17 groups. One of these groups corresponds to the main cluster, one is the well known group associated with the infalling galaxy NGC4839 and one is associated with NGC4911/NGC4926. About one third of the 17 groups have velocity distributions centered on the velocities of the very bright cluster galaxies they contain (magnitudes R<13). In order to search for additional substructures, we make use of the isophotes of X-ray brightness residuals left after the subtraction of the best-fit beta-model from the overall X-ray gas distribution (Neumann et al. 2003). We select galaxies within each of these isophotes and compare their velocity distributions with that of the whole cluster. We confirm in this way the two groups associated, respectively, with NGC4839, and with the southern part of the extended western substructure visible in X-rays. We discuss the group properties in the context of a scenario in which Coma is built by the accretion of groups infalling from the surrounding large scale structure. We estimate the recent mass accretion rate of Coma and compare it with hierarchical models of cluster evolution.

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