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2023MNRAS.526L.124M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 526, L124-L128 (2023/November-3)

Two large-scale sloshing cold fronts in the outskirts of the galaxy cluster Abell 3558.

MIRAKHOR M.S., WALKER S.A., SUNDQUIST M. and CHANDRA D.

Abstract (from CDS):

Previous studies of the massive nearby galaxy cluster Abell 3558 reported a cold front around the cluster core, which is attributed to the sloshing of the core as it responds to the gravitational disturbance created by a past minor merger. Here, using XMM-Newton mosaic, we report the detection of two rare large-scale sloshing cold fronts far outside the cooling radius of Abell 3558. One of the detected cold fronts is located 600 kpc from the cluster core to the south-east, while the other is located 1.2 Mpc from the cluster core to the north-west. The latter cold front is one of the most distant cold fronts ever observed in a galaxy cluster. Our findings are in agreement with previous studies that sloshing can extend well beyond the cooling radius, on scales exceeding half the virial radius, suggesting that sloshing is a cluster-wide phenomenon and may affect the cluster's global properties.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: clusters: individual: Abell 3558 - galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium - X-rays: galaxies: clusters

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