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2007A&A...463..833F - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 463833-837 (2007/3-1)

An S-shaped arc in the galaxy cluster RX J0054.0-2823.

FAURE C., GIRAUD E., MELNICK J., QUINTANA H., SELMAN F. and WAMBSGANSS J.

Abstract (from CDS):

The center of the galaxy cluster RX J0054.0-2823 at z=0.292 is a dynamically active region that includes an interacting system of three galaxies surrounded by a large halo of intra-cluster light. We report here the discovery of an S-shaped feature of total length 11" in the central region of this cluster and discuss its physical nature.We test the gravitational lensing assumption by doing a mass modeling of the central part of the galaxy cluster. We very naturally reproduce position and form of this S-shaped feature as a gravitationally lensed background object at redshift between 0.5 and 1.0.We conclude that the lensing nature is the very probable explanation for this S-shaped arc; the ultimate proof will be the spectroscopic confirmation by measuring the high redshift of this elongated feature with surface brightness V∼24mag/arcsec2.

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Journal keyword(s): cosmology: observations - galaxies: clusters: individual: RX J0054.0-2823 - galaxies: interactions - galaxies: halos - gravitational lensing

Nomenclature: NAME RX J0054.0-2823 arc N=1.

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