Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-06-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PASJ 54 No.4
Scientific paper
We observed a group of galaxies, HCG 57, with ASCA. Regardless that their member galaxies are dominated by spiral galaxies, we detected extended thermal X-ray emission that is attributed to hot gas with a temperature of $1.04\pm0.10$ keV. This is the second clear detection of thermal X-ray emission from a spiral-dominant group of galaxies after HCG 92. The luminosity of the thermal emission is about $5\times10^{41}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in the 0.5--10 keV band, which is higher than that of HCG 92, but relatively less luminous among groups of galaxies. The X-ray emission is extended over several member galaxies, and is thus associated with the group rather than an individual galaxy. The metal abundance cannot be well constrained with a lower limit of 0.08 solar. The gas-to-stellar mass ratio is $\sim0.3$. Although this is relatively low among groups, the hot gas is also a significant component even in the spiral-dominant group. We suggest that the X-ray faintness of spiral-dominant groups is due to the low surface brightness and somewhat low gas mass, at least in the case of HCG 57.
Fukazawa Yasushi
Kawano Naomi
Ohto Akimitsu
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