Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-11-19
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.335:256,2002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Final version (MNRAS, in press). Small improvments including more details on lensing and merger models
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05554.x
We present Chandra observations of RXJ1347.5-1145, the most X-ray luminous cluster of galaxies known. We report the discovery of a region of relatively hot, bright X-ray emission, located approximately 20 arcsec to the southeast of the main X-ray peak, at a position consistent with the region of enhanced Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect reported by Komatsu et al. (2001). We suggest that this region contains shocked gas resulting from a recent subcluster merger event. Excluding the data for the southeast quadrant, the cluster appears relatively relaxed. The X-ray gas temperature rises from kT~6 keV within the central 25 h_50^{-1} kpc radius to a mean value of ~16 keV between 0.1-0.5 h_50^{-1} Mpc. The mass profile for the relaxed regions of the cluster, determined under the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium, can be parameterized by a Navarro, Frenk & White (1997) model with a scale radius r_s~0.4 h_50^{-1} Mpc and a concentration parameter c~6. The best-fit Chandra mass model is in good agreement with independent measurements from weak gravitational lensing studies. Strong lensing data for the central regions of the cluster can be also explained by the introduction of an additional mass clump centred on the second brightest galaxy. We argue that this galaxy is likely to have been the dominant galaxy of the recently merged subcluster.
Allen Steven W.
Fabian Andrea C.
Schmidt Robert W.
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