ASCA and ROSAT observations of distant massive cooling flows

Details ASCA and ROSAT observations of distant massive cooling flows ASCA and ROSAT observations of distant massive cooling flows

1996-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9609201v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS in press. 21 pages, 14 figures in MNRAS LaTex style. Full verison with encapsulated postscript images available at htt

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We present the results from a detailed ASCA/ROSAT X-ray study of three distant, massive cooling flows; Zwicky 3146 (z=0.291), Abell 1835 (z=0.252) and E1455+223 (Zwicky 7160; z=0.258). Using multiphase models fitted to the ASCA spectra, we determine values for the temperature, metallicity, luminosity and cooling rates in the clusters. These results are combined with deprojection analyses of the ROSAT images to provide detailed constraints on the mass distributions in the systems, and on the properties of their cooling flows. The spectral and imaging data identify these clusters as the three most-massive cooling flows known, with mass deposition rates of ~ 1400, 2300, and 1500 solar masses per year, respectively. We highlight the need for multiphase models to consistently model the spectral and imaging X-ray data, and discuss the importance of using these models in X-ray determinations of the cluster masses. We also present results from an extensive optical study of the clusters and report the discovery of a gravitational arc in Abell 1835. The lensing data provide an indepenent constraint on the distribution of mass in the cluster, in good agreement with the results from the mutliphase (although not single-phase) X-ray analysis. We present measurements of the galaxy distributions in Abell 1835 and E1455+223 and relate these to the distributions of the total mass. The ASCA spectra place firm constraints on the column density of intrinsic X-ray absorbing material in the clusters. Abell 1835 and E1455+223 exhibit large intrinsic column densities associated with their cooling flows. These clusters also exhibit significant amounts of reddening in the optical spectra of their central galaxies. The data for Zwicky 3146 indicate lower lower levels of X-ray absorption and reddening. All three clusters exhibit excellent alignment

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