XMM-Newton detection of two clusters of galaxies with strong SPT Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect signatures

Details XMM-Newton detection of two clusters of galaxies with strong SPT Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect signatures XMM-Newton detection of two clusters of galaxies with strong SPT Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect signatures

2010-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/1003.3020v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Submitted to A&A, 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

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We report on the discovery of two galaxy clusters, SPT-CL J2332-5358 and SPT-CL J2342-5411, in X-rays. These clusters were also independently detected through their Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect by the South Pole Telescope, and confirmed in the optical band by the Blanco Cosmology Survey. They are thus the first clusters detected under survey conditions by all major cluster search approaches. The X-ray detection is made within the frame of the XMM-BCS cluster survey utilizing a novel XMM-Newton mosaic mode of observations. The present study makes the first scientific use of this operation mode. We estimate the X-ray spectroscopic temperature of SPT-CL J2332-5358 (at redshift z=0.32) to T = 9.3 (+3.3/-1.9) keV, implying a high mass, M_{500} = 8.8 +/- 3.8 \times 10^{14} M_{sun}. For SPT-CL J2342-5411, at z=1.08, the available X-ray data doesn't allow us to directly estimate the temperature with good confidence. However, using our measured luminosity and scaling relations we estimate that T = 4.5 +/- 1.3 keV and M_{500} = 1.9 +/- 0.8 \times 10^{14} M_{sun}. We find a good agreement between the X-ray masses and those estimated from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.

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