Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 727, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/727/2/L38
Keywords
galaxies: groups: individual (Suzaku J1552+2739); large-scale structure of universe; X-rays: galaxies: clusters
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Funding
- JSPS
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [22.5467, 09J08405, 22-181, P08324]
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative, MEXT, Japan
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- University of Chicago
- Fermilab
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Japan Participation Group
- Johns Hopkins University
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy
- Max-Planck-Institute
- New Mexico State University
- University of Pittsburgh
- Princeton University
- United States Naval Observatory
- University of Washington
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [09J08405] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We report on a new merging group of galaxies, Suzaku J1552+2739, at z similar to 0.08 revealed by a Suzaku observation. The group was found by observing a junction of galaxy filaments optically identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic data. Suzaku J1552+2739 exhibits an irregular morphology and presents several peaks in its X-ray image. A bright elliptical galaxy, observable in the central peak, allows the localization of the group at z = 0.083. We found a significant hot spot visible in the X-ray hardness map, close to the second peak. The spectroscopic temperature is T = 1.6+(0.4)(-0.1) keV within R-500 = 0.6 Mpc and T = 3-5 keV in the hot spot. We interpret those results as Suzaku J1552+2739 being located in the center of a major merging process. The observation of a galaxy group showing multiple X-ray peaks and a hot spot at the same time is rare and we believe in particular that the study of Suzaku J1552+2739 is potentially of significant interest for better understanding the dynamical and thermal evolution of the intragroup and intracluster medium, as well as its relation with the surrounding environment.
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