Kinematic Substructures in the Coma Cluster Core as traced by Intracluster Planetary Nebulae

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2007-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703606v1

Proceedings of IAU Symposium 234, Cambridge University Press (2006), p. 337

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures. In 'Planetary Nebulae in our Galaxy and Beyond', eds. Michael J. Barlow and Roberto H. Mendez

Scientific paper

10.1017/S1743921306003188

The Coma cluster is the richest and most compact of the nearby clusters, yet there is growing evidence that its formation is still on-going. A sensitive probe of this evolution is the dynamics of intracluster stars, which are unbound from galaxies while the cluster forms, according to cosmological simulations. With a new multi-slit imaging spectroscopy technique pioneered at the 8.2 m Subaru telescope and FOCAS, we can now detect and measure the line-of-sight velocities of the intracluster planetary nebulae which are associated with the diffuse stellar population of stars, at 100 Mpc distance. We detect significant velocity substructures within a 6 arcmin diameter field, centred on the Coma X-ray cluster emission. One substructure ispresent at ~5000 km/s, probably from infall of a galaxy group, while the main intracluster stellar component moves at ~ 6500 km/s. Hence the ICPNs associated with the diffuse light at the position of the MSIS field are not bound to the nearby cD galaxy NGC 4874, whose radial velocity is ~ 700 km/s greater.

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