Discovery of the X-ray selected galaxy cluster XMMU J0338.8+0021 at z = 1.49 - Indications for a young system with a forming brightest galaxy

Details Discovery of the X-ray selected galaxy cluster XMMU J0338.8+0021 at z = 1.49 - Indications for a young system with a forming brightest galaxy Discovery of the X-ray selected galaxy cluster XMMU J0338.8+0021 at z = 1.49 - Indications for a young system with a forming brightest galaxy

2011-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/1106.5784v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

6 pages, 4 figures, 2 Tables

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We report on the discovery of a galaxy cluster at z = 1.490 originally selected as an extended X-ray source in the XMM-Newton Distant Cluster Project. Further observations carried out with the VLT-FORS2 spectrograph allowed the spectroscopic confirmation of seven secure cluster members, providing a median system redshift of z = 1.490 +/- 0.009. The color magnitude diagram of XMMU J0338.8+0021 reveals the presence of a well populated red sequence with z-H ~ 3, albeit with an apparent significant scatter in color. Since we do not detect indications for strong star formation activity in any of the objects, the color spread could indicate different stellar ages of the member galaxies. In addition, we found the brightest cluster galaxy in a very active dynamical state, with an interacting, merging companion located at a physical projected distance of d ~ 20kpc. From the X-ray luminosity we estimate a cluster mass of M200 ~ 1.2 x 10^(14) Msun. The data seem to suggest a scenario in which XMMU J0338.8+0021 is a young system, possibly caught in a moment of active ongoing mass assembly.

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