SIMBAD references

2016ApJ...817..122B - Astrophys. J., 817, 122 (2016/February-1)

IDCS J1426.5+3508: the most massive galaxy cluster at z > 1.5.

BRODWIN M., McDONALD M., GONZALEZ A.H., STANFORD S.A., EISENHARDT P.R., STERN D. and ZEIMANN G.R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a deep (100 ks) Chandra observation of IDCS J1426.5+3508, a spectroscopically confirmed, infrared-selected galaxy cluster at z = 1.75. This cluster is the most massive galaxy cluster currently known at z > 1.5, based on existing Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) and gravitational lensing detections. We confirm this high mass via a variety of X-ray scaling relations, including TX-M, fg-M, YX-M, and LX-M, finding a tight distribution of masses from these different methods, spanning M500= 2.3-3.3x1014M☉, with the low-scatter YX-based mass M500,Yx = 2.6–0.5+1.5 M☉. IDCS J1426.5+3508 is currently the only cluster at z > 1.5 for which X-ray, SZ, and gravitational lensing mass estimates exist, and these are in remarkably good agreement. We find a relatively tight distribution of the gas-to-total mass ratio, employing total masses from all of the aforementioned indicators, with values ranging from fgas,500= 0.087-0.12. We do not detect metals in the intracluster medium (ICM) of this system, placing a 2σ upper limit of Z (r < R500) < 0.18Z☉. This upper limit on the metallicity suggests that this system may still be in the process of enriching its ICM. The cluster has a dense, low-entropy core, offset by ∼30 kpc from the X-ray centroid, which makes it one of the few ''cool core'' clusters discovered at z > 1, and the first known cool core cluster at z > 1.2. The offset of this core from the large-scale centroid suggests that this cluster has had a relatively recent (≲500 Myr) merger/interaction with another massive system.

Abstract Copyright: ∼

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: clusters: individual: IDCS J1426.5+3508 - galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium - galaxies: high-redshift - large-scale structure of universe - X-rays: galaxies: clusters

Simbad objects: 6

goto Full paper

goto View the references in ADS

To bookmark this query, right click on this link: simbad:2016ApJ...817..122B and select 'bookmark this link' or equivalent in the popup menu