Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-07-01
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 4 figures, To appear in 1 Aug 1998 ApJ (heavily revised version of original preprint)
Scientific paper
10.1086/305923
We have observed the most distant (z=0.829) cluster of galaxies in the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey, with the ASCA and ROSAT satellites. We find an X-ray temperature of 12.3 +3.1/-2.2 keV for this cluster, and the ROSAT map reveals significant substructure. The high temperature of MS1054-0321 is consistent with both its approximate velocity dispersion, based on the redshifts of 12 cluster members we have obtained at the Keck and the Canada-France-Hawaii telescopes, and with its weak lensing signature. The X-ray temperature of this cluster implies a virial mass ~ 7.4 x 10^14 h^-1 solar masses, if the mean matter density in the universe equals the critical value, or larger if Omega_0 < 1. Finding such a hot, massive cluster in the EMSS is extremely improbable if clusters grew from Gaussian perturbations in an Omega_0 = 1 universe. Combining the assumptions that Omega_0 = 1 and that the intial perturbations were Gaussian with the observed X-ray temperature function at low redshift, we show that the probability of this cluster occurring in the volume sampled by the EMSS is less than a few times 10^{-5}. Nor is MS1054-0321 the only hot cluster at high redshift; the only two other $z > 0.5$ EMSS clusters already observed with ASCA also have temperatures exceeding 8 keV. Assuming again that the initial perturbations were Gaussian and Omega_0 = 1, we find that each one is improbable at the < 10^{-2} level. These observations, along with the fact that these luminosities and temperatures of the high-$z$ clusters all agree with the low-z L_X-T_X relation, argue strongly that Omega_0 < 1. Otherwise, the initial perturbations must be non-Gaussian, if these clusters' temperatures do indeed reflect their gravitational potentials.
Donahue Megan
Gioia Isabella Maria
Hughes John Patrick
Luppino Gerry
Stocke John T.
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