Discovery of X-ray emission rom the distant lensing cluster of galaxies CL2236-04 at z = 0.552

Details Discovery of X-ray emission rom the distant lensing cluster of galaxies CL2236-04 at z = 0.552 Discovery of X-ray emission rom the distant lensing cluster of galaxies CL2236-04 at z = 0.552

1998-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9803092v1

Astrophys.J. 503 (1998) 593

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, including 4 postscripts figs, LaTex. To appear in Part 1 of The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/306039

X-ray emission from the distant lensing cluster CL2236-04 at $z$ = 0.552 was discovered by ASCA and ROSAT/HRI observations. If the spherical symmetric mass distribution model of the cluster is assumed, the lensing estimate of the cluster mass is a factor of two higher than that obtained from X-ray observations as reported for many distant clusters. However, the elliptical and clumpy lens model proposed by Kneib et al.(1993) is surprisingly consistent with the X-ray observations assuming that the X-ray emitting hot gas is isothermal and in a hydrostatic equilibrium state. The existence of the cooling flow in the central region of the cluster is indicated by the short central cooling time and the excess flux detected by ROSAT/HRI compared to the ASCA flux. However, it is shown that even if the AXJ2239-0429 has a cooling flow in the central region, the temperature measured by ASCA which is the mean emission-weighted cluster temperature in this case, should not be cooler than and different from the virial temperature of the cluster. Therefore, we conclude that the effect of the clumpiness and non-zero ellipticity in the mass distribution of the cluster are essential to explain the observed feature of the giant luminous arc, and there is no discrepancy between strong lensing and X-ray estimation of the mass of the cluster in this cluster.

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