Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-11-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages, 1 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of "Heating vs. Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies", August 2006, G
Scientific paper
Cold fronts were originally interpreted as being the result of subsonic/transonic motions of head-on merging substructures. This merger core remnant model is theoretically justified and hold relatively well for clusters that have clear signs of merging, such as 1E0657-56, but they do not work well for the increasing number of cold fronts found in clusters that do not show clear merging signs, such as A496. Here we report the results of a deeper observation of that cluster that allowed us to produce high quality maps of the gas parameters and to compare more closely the observations with the predictions given by different models for cold front formation. We found for the first time a ``cold arm'' characteristic of a flyby of a massive DM halo near the core of the cluster. The cold arm is accompanied by an enhanced SN II Fe mass fraction, inconsistent with the merger core remnant scenario.
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