Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-05-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, using l-aa.sty and epsf.sty. Accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics. Postscript file including 8 files available at
Scientific paper
Recent X-ray observations have established that collisions between subclusters of galaxies are rather common phenomena. Prompted by such observations, we have performed N-body simulations of two equal-mass subclusters of galaxies, which are going to merge. We first have confirmed that only a part of kinetic energy associated with the relative motion of two subclusters is converted to internal energy of each subcluster at the first encounter. We performed simulations for a variety of dark-matter (DM) distributions, and find that the time scale for washing out the double peak structures after the first encounter strongly depends on the distribution of the density and velocity distributions of the DM. It takes longer when the DM is spatially extended. According to our calculation it takes more than $4 imes 10^9$yr after the first encounter until the density contour shows only a single peak. To explain the high fraction of the clusters with substructures among nearby clusters, Richstone,Loeb Turner(1992; hereafter RLT) required recent($$ $10^9 h^{-1}$yr) cluster formation. However, our results show that the timescale for subcluster merging is still uncertain and possibly much longer than the time scale assumed by RLT. Caution should be exercised when concluding that the density of the universe is high by using RLT's method.
Hattori Makoto
Mineshige Shin
Nakamura Fumitaka E.
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