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星系团和星系团的排列

Alignment of Galaxies and Clusters

Yasuhiro Hashimoto, J. Patrick Henry, Hans Boehringer

摘要:

通过研究最亮星系团(BCG)位置角相对于主星系团X射线位置角的排列,研究了环境对星系团的影响。集群的位置角测量使用高空间分辨率的X射线数据从钱德拉ACIS档案,显着提高了集群形状的确定相比,传统的方法使用光学图像。同时,使用由安装在斯巴鲁8米望远镜上的Suprime-Cam拍摄的高空间分辨率光学图像组成的均匀数据集测量BCGs的那些。我们发现了一个强烈的迹象表明,集群X射线发射和光学光从BCG之间的对齐,而我们看到没有明确的直接相关性的程度的椭圆度的X射线和光学BCG形态,尽管两个椭圆形结构的明显对齐。我们还研究了可能的依赖关系的位置角排列的X射线形态的集群,并没有明确的趋势被发现的事实,即没有明显的趋势是关于频率或程度的对齐相对于X射线形态可能是一致的解释,作为一个缺乏依赖的集群的动力学状态。

英文摘要:

We investigated the influence of environment on cluster galaxies by examining the alignment of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) position angle with respect to the host cluster X-ray position angle. The cluster position angles were measured using high spatial resolution X-ray data taken from the Chandra ACIS archive, that significantly improved the determination of the cluster shape compared to the conventional method of using optical images. Meanwhile, those of the BCGs were measured using homogeneous dataset composed of high spatial resolution optical images taken with Suprime-Cam mounted on Subaru 8m telescope. We found a strong indication of an alignment between the cluster X-ray emission and optical light from BCGs, while we see no clear direct correlation between the degree of ellipticity of X-ray and optical BCG morphologies, despite the apparent alignment of two elliptical structures. We have also investigated possible dependence of the position angle alignment on the X-ray morphology of the clusters, and no clear trends are found. The fact that no trends are evident regarding frequency or degree of the alignment with respect to X-ray morphology may be consistent with an interpretation as a lack of dependence on the dynamical status of clusters.

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