Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-09-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 11 figures, accepted by PASJ. High resolution version available at http://www-x.phys.metro-u.ac.jp/~akira_h/papers/
Scientific paper
A Chandra observation of the non-cooling flow cluster A 1060 has confirmed that the hot intracluster medium has fairly uniform distributions of temperature and metal abundance from a radius of about 230 kpc to the central 5 kpc region (H_0= 75 km/s/Mpc). The radial temperature profile shows a broad peak at 30-40 kpc from the center at a level ~20% higher than that in the outer region. Assuming spatially uniform temperature and abundance distributions, we derived a 3-dimensional density structure by iteratively correcting the beta model, and obtained the central gas density to be 8.2^{+1.8}_{-1.0} x 10^{-3} cm^{-3}. The distribution of gravitational mass was estimated from the density profile, and a central concentration of mass within a radius of 50 kpc was indicated. The data also suggest several high-abundance regions. The most significant blob adjacent to the central galaxy NGC 3311 has a radius of about 9 kpc, which indicates a metallicity of ~1.5 solar. We consider that this blob may be produced by the gas stripped off from NGC 3311.
Furusho Tae
Hayakawa Akira
Ishida Manabu
Ohashi Takaya
Yamasaki Noriko Y.
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