Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-19
Astrophys.J.633:148-153,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted for publication in Astrophys. Journal, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/444584
A CHANDRA follow-up observation of an X-ray luminous galaxy cluster with a compact appearance, RXCJ1504.1-0248 discovered in our REFLEX Cluster Survey, reveals an object with one of the most prominent cluster cooling cores. With a core radius of ~30 kpc smaller than the cooling radius with ~140 kpc more than 70% of the high X-ray luminosity of Lbol = 4.3 10e45 erg s-1 of this cluster is radiated inside the cooling radius. A simple modeling of the X-ray morphology of the cluster leads to a formal mass deposition rate within the classical cooling flow model of 1500 - 1900 Msun yr-1 (for h=0.7), and 2300 - 3000 Msun yr-1 (for h=0.5). The center of the cluster is marked by a giant elliptical galaxy which is also a known radio source. Thus it is very likely that we observe one of the interaction systems where the central cluster AGN is heating the cooling core region in a self-regulated way to prevent a massive cooling of the gas, similar to several such cases studied in detail in more nearby clusters. The interest raised by this system is then due to the high power recycled in RXCJ1504-0248 over cooling time scales which is about one order of magnitude higher than what occurs in the studied, nearby cooling core clusters. The cluster is also found to be very massive, with a global X-ray temperature of about 10.5 keV and a total mass of about 1.7 10e15 Msun inside 3 Mpc.
Boehringer Hans
Burwitz Vadim
Nowak Nina
Schuecker Peter
Zhang Yajing
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