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合并中的星系团A520 -一个破碎的冷核,一个黑暗的子星系团和一个X射线通道

The merging galaxy cluster A520 --- a broken-up cool core, a dark subcluster, and an X-ray channel

Qian Wang, Maxim Markevitch, Simona Giacintucci

摘要:

我们提出的结果,从深钱德拉X射线观测的合并星系团A520。一张高分辨率的气体温度图,在减去星系团尺度的辐射后,揭示了一条长的密集的冷星系团的踪迹-显然是一个冷核心的碎片,它已经被冲压压力从下落的子星系团中完全剥离出来。在这种情况下,我们可以假设团块仍然由磁场线连接。所观察到的温度变化意味着热导率在磁场的假定方向上被抑制了100倍以上(如在其他集群中发现的),并且沿着场线也被抑制了几倍。在弱透镜质量图和X射线图像中可以看到,A520外围的两个大质量团块在合并过程中显然已经完全剥离了气体,但随后在离开星团时重新吸积了周围的高熵气体。其中一个团块(具有简单几何形状)的X射线流体静力学质量估计与透镜质量一致。它目前的气体质量占总质量的比例非常低,只有1.5- 3%,这使它成为一个“暗子星系团”。我们还发现了一个奇怪的低X射线亮度通道(在投影中可能是一个低密度片)沿着一个明显的二次合并的方向穿过星团。该沟道可由放大磁场(具有等离子体$β\sim 10-20$)的区域中的等离子体耗尽引起。A520中的激波将在另一篇论文中研究。

英文摘要:

We present results from a deep Chandra X-ray observation of a merging galaxy cluster A520. A high-resolution gas temperature map, after the subtraction of the cluster-scale emission, reveals a long trail of dense, cool clumps --- apparently the fragments of a cool core that has been completely stripped from the infalling subcluster by ram pressure. In this scenario, we can assume that the clumps are still connected by the magnetic field lines. The observed temperature variations imply that thermal conductivity is suppressed by a factor >100 across the presumed direction of the magnetic field (as found in other clusters), and is also suppressed -along- the field lines by a factor of several. Two massive clumps in the periphery of A520, visible in the weak lensing mass map and the X-ray image, have apparently been completely stripped of gas during the merger, but then re-accreted the surrounding high-entropy gas upon exit from the cluster. An X-ray hydrostatic mass estimate for one of the clumps (that has simple geometry) agrees with the lensing mass. Its current gas mass to total mass ratio is very low, 1.5-3%, which makes it a "dark subcluster". We also found a curious low X-ray brightness channel (likely a low-density sheet in projection) going across the cluster along the direction of an apparent secondary merger. The channel may be caused by plasma depletion in a region of an amplified magnetic field (with plasma $β\sim 10-20$). The shock in A520 will be studied in a separate paper.

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