Evidence for a heated gas bubble inside the "cooling flow" region of MKW3s

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2001-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107557v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 5 color figures and 1 BW figure, emulateapj5, Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/323512

We report on the deep Chandra observation of central r=200kpc region of the cluster of galaxies MKW3s which was previously identified as a moderate cooling flow cluster. The Chandra image reveals two striking features -- a 100kpc long and 21kpc wide filament, extending from the center to the south-west and a nearly circular, 50kpc diameter depression 90 kpc south of the X-ray peak. The temperature map shows that the filamentary structure is colder while the surface brightness depression is hotter than the average cluster temperature at any radius. The hot and the cold regions indicate that both cooling and heating processes are taking place in the center of MKW3s. We argue that the surface brightness depression is produced by a heated, low-density gas bubble along the line of sight. We suggest that the heated bubble is produced by short-lived nuclear outbursts from the central galaxy.

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