Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-01-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
We present the first determination of the intrinsic triaxial shapes and tree-dimensional physical parameters of both dark matter (DM) and intra-cluster medium (ICM) for the galaxy cluster Abell 1689. We exploit the novel method we recently introduced (Morandi et al. 2010) in order to infer the tree-dimensional physical properties in triaxial galaxy clusters by combining jointly X-ray and strong lensing data. We find that Abell 1689 can be modeled as a triaxial galaxy cluster with DM halo axial ratios 1.24 +/- 0.13 and 2.37 +/- 0.11 on the plane of the sky and along the line of sight, respectively. We show that accounting for the three-dimensional geometry allows to solve the discrepancy between the mass determined from X-ray and strong gravitational lensing observations. We also determined the inner slope of the DM density profile alpha: we measure alpha = 0.90 +/- 0.05 by accounting explicitly for the 3D structure for this cluster, a value which is close to the cold dark matter (CDM) predictions, while the standard spherical modeling leads to the biased value alpha = 1.16 +/- 0.04. Our findings dispel the potential inconsistencies arisen in the literature between the predictions of the CDM scenario and the observations, providing further evidences that support the CDM scenario.
Limousin Marceau
Morandi Andrea
Pedersen Kristian
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