期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 747, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/747/1/32
关键词
galaxies: individual (A3112); X-rays: galaxies: clusters
资金
- NASA XMM [NNX09AP92G]
- NASA ROSES-ADP [NNX09AC71G]
- NASA [NNX09AP92G, 108956] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We examine high signal-to-noise XMM-Newton European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) and Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) observations to determine the physical characteristics of the gas in the cool core and outskirts of the nearby rich cluster A3112. The XMM-Newton Extended Source Analysis Software data reduction and background modeling methods were used to analyze the XMM-Newton EPIC data. From the EPIC data, we find that the iron and silicon abundance gradients show significant increase toward the center of the cluster while the oxygen abundance profile is centrally peaked but has a shallower distribution than that of iron. The X-ray mass modeling is based on the temperature and deprojected density distributions of the intracluster medium determined from EPIC observations. The total mass of A3112 obeys the M-T scaling relations found using XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of massive clusters at r(500). The gas mass fraction f(gas) = 0.149(-0.032)(+0.036) at r(500) is consistent with the seven-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe results. The comparisons of line fluxes and flux limits on the Fe XVII and Fe XVIII lines obtained from high-resolution RGS spectra indicate that there is no spectral evidence for cooler gas associated with the cluster with temperature below 1.0 keV in the central <38 '' (similar to 52 kpc) region of A3112. High-resolution RGS spectra also yield an upper limit to the turbulent motions in the compact core of A3112 (206 km s(-1)). We find that the contribution of turbulence to total energy is less than 6%. This upper limit is consistent with the energy contribution measured in recent high-resolution simulations of relaxed galaxy clusters.
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