Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-05-22
Astron.Astrophys.299:L9,1995
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, including 3 figures, A&A Letters (in press)
Scientific paper
We report the discovery of two bright arcs in what turns out to be the brightest X--ray cluster in the ROSAT band ever observed, RXJ1347.5-1145. Its luminosity is $(6.2\pm0.6) \cdot10^{45}$erg s$^{-1}$ (in the range 0.1--2.4~keV). The arcs are most probably gravitationally lensed images of background galaxies. They were found serendipitously during our ongoing large--scale redshift survey of X--ray clusters detected by the ROSAT All Sky Survey. The arcs are almost opposite to each other with respect to the cluster centre, with a distance from it of about $35''$ ($=240 h^{-1}_{50}$ kpc), a radius that enables the probing of a rather large cluster volume. In this Letter we limit ourselves to the discussion of the general optical and X--ray features of this cluster and to the potential implications of the gravitational arcs. A more detailed discussion of the different mass estimates and of the cosmological implications for this exceptional object are left for future work based on more accurate optical and X--ray data, which are currently being collected.
Böhringer Hans
Briel Ulrich G.
Chincarini Guido
Collins Charles Aloysius
de Grandi Sabrina
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