Evidence for Merging in the Centaurus Cluster

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1998-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802166v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/307421

We present a two dimensional map of the gas temperature distribution in the Centaurus cluster, based on ASCA observations derived using a novel approach to account for the energy dependent point spread function. Along with a cool region, centered on NGC4696, asymmetric temperature variations of moderate amplitude are detected. The hottest region roughly coincides with the position of the second brightest galaxy NGC4709, known to be the dominant galaxy of one of the subgroups in the Centaurus cluster. ROSAT images show faint surface brightness emission also centered on this galaxy. The imaging and spectral results suggest that a subcluster, centered on NGC4709 is merging with the main cluster centered on NGC4696, in agreement with the earlier suggestion by Lucey et al. (1986) that these two systems are located at the same distance despite their different line-of-sight velocities.

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