Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-11-04
Astron.Astrophys. 415 (2004) 415-424
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, A&A in press
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20031672
The environmental influence of cluster media on its member galaxies, known as Butcher--Oemler effect, has recently been subject to revision due to numerous observations of strong morphological transformations occurring outside the cluster virial radii, caused by some unidentified gas removal processes. In this context we present new XMM-Newton observations of M86 group. The unique combination of high spatial and spectral resolution and large field of view of XMM-Newton allows an in-depth investigation of the processes involved in the spectacular disruption of this object. We identify a possible shock with Mach number of ~1.4 in the process of crushing the galaxy in the North-East direction. The latter is ascribed to the presence of a dense X-ray emitting filament, previously revealed in the RASS data. The shock is not associated with other previously identified features of M86 X-ray emission, such as the plume, the north-eastern arm and the southern extension, which are found to have low entropy, similar to the inner 2 kpc of M86. Finally, mere existence of the large scale gas halo around the M86 group, suggests that the disruptions of M86's X-ray halo may be caused by small-scale types of interactions such as galaxy-galaxy collisions.
Aschenbach Bernd
Finoguenov Alexis
Miniati Francesco
Pietsch Wolfgang
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