Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-05-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, source name corrected
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20010649
During an XMM-Newton observation of the galactic supernova remnant G21.5-09 a bright, previously uncatalogued, source (XMMU J183225.4-103645) was detected 18 arcmin from G21.5-09. The European Photon Imaging Camera data inside 1 arcmin (180/h_50 kpc) radius are consistent with a source at a redshift of 0.1242 [+0.0003, -0.0022] with an optically thin thermal spectrum of temperature 5.8 +- 0.6 keV and a metal abundance of 0.60 +- 0.10 solar. This model gives a 2 - 10 keV luminosity of 3.5[+0.8, -0.4]/h_50^2 10^44 erg/s. These characteristics, as well as the source extent of 2.0 arcmin (350/h_50 kpc), and the surface brightness profile are consistent with emission from the central region of a moderately rich cluster containing a cooling flow with mass flow rate of 400-600 M_Sun/yr. The absorption is 7.9 +- 0.5 10^22 atom/cm^2, 5 times that inferred from low-resolution HI data but consistent with higher spatial resolution infrared dust extinction estimates. XMMU J183225.4-103645 is not visible in earlier ROSAT observations due to high amount of absorption. This discovery demonstrates the capability of XMM-Newton to map the cluster distribution close to the Galactic plane, where few such systems are known. The ability of XMM-Newton to determine cluster redshifts to 1% precision at z = 0.1 is especially important in optically crowded and absorbed fields such as close to the Galactic plane, where the optical redshift measurements of galaxies are difficult.
Lumb David
Nevalainen Jukka
Parmar Arvind N.
Santos Sergio Dos
Siddiqui Hassan
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