RXJ1716.6+6708: a young cluster at z=0.81

Details RXJ1716.6+6708: a young cluster at z=0.81 RXJ1716.6+6708: a young cluster at z=0.81

1999-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9902277v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Latex file, 18 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/300868

Clusters of galaxies at redshifts nearing one are of special importance since they may be caught at the epoch of formation. At these high redshifts there are very few known clusters. We present follow-up ASCA, ROSAT HRI and Keck LRIS observations of the cluster RXJ1716.6+6708 which was discovered during the optical identification of X-ray sources in the North Ecliptic Pole region of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. At z=0.809, RXJ1716.6+6708 is the second most distant X-ray selected cluster so far published and the only one with a large number of spectroscopically determined cluster member velocities. The optical morphology of RXJ1716.6+6708 resembles an inverted S-shape filament with the X-rays coming from the midpoint of the filament. The X-ray contours have an elongated shape that roughly coincide with the weak lensing contours. The cluster has a low temperature, kT=5.66{+1.37 -0.58} keV, and a very high velocity dispersion sigma_{los}=1522{+215 -150} km s^{-1}. While the temperature is commensurate with its X-ray luminosity of (8.19 +/- 0.43)x10^{44} h_{50}^{-2} erg s^{-1} (2-10 keV rest frame), its velocity dispersion is much higher than expected from the sigma-T_X relationship of present-day clusters with comparable X-ray luminosity. RXJ1716.6+6708 could be an example of a protocluster, where matter is flowing along filaments and the X-ray flux is maximum at the impact point of the colliding streams of matter.

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