Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-02-04
Astron.Astrophys. 514 (2010) 60
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
20 pages, 17 figures; Identical to the publication in A+A. Small language corrections. Minor additions: We check the influence
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361/200913810
We have discovered a strong lensing fossil group (J0454) at z=0.26, projected near the well-studied cluster MS0451-0305. Using multicolour Subaru/Suprime-Cam and CFHT/Megaprime imaging together with Keck spectroscopy we identify member galaxies. A VLT/FORS2 spectrum was taken to determine the redshifts of the brightest elliptical and the lensed arc. Using HST/ACS images we determine the group's weak lensing signal and model the strong lens system. This is the first time that a fossil group is analysed with lensing methods. The X-ray luminosity and temperature are derived from XMM-Newton data. We find two filaments extending over 4 Mpc, and within the virial radius we identify 31 members spectroscopically and 33 via the red sequence with i<22 mag. They segregate into spirals and a dynamically cooler central concentration of ellipticals with a velocity dispersion of 480 km/s. Weak lensing and cluster richness relations yield r200 = 830 kpc and M200 = 0.85 x 10^14 Msun. The brightest group galaxy (BGG) is inconsistent with the dynamic centre of J0454. It strongly lenses a galaxy at z~2.1, and we model the lens with a pseudo-isothermal elliptical mass distribution. A large external shear requires that the BGG must be offset from J0454's dark halo centre by at least 90-130 kpc. The X-ray halo is offset by 24 kpc from the BGG, shows no signs of a cooling flow and is well described by a beta-model. With L = 1.4 x 10^43 erg/s J0454 falls well onto standard X-ray cluster scaling relations, but appears cooler (1.1 keV) than expected (2 keV). We conclude that J0454 consists of two systems, a sparse cluster and an infalling fossil group, the latter seeding the BCG. An alternative explanation is that galaxies in a filament, projected along the line of sight, stream towards the denser fossil group.
Erben Thomas
Halkola Aleksi
Hildebrandt Hendrik
Schirmer Mischa
Schrabback Tim
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