The complex intracluster medium of Abell 1569 and its interaction with central radio galaxies

Tiwari, Juhi; Singh, Kulinder Pal

doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3188

Title: The complex intracluster medium of Abell 1569 and its interaction with central radio galaxies

Journal Article · Wed Nov 03 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3188· OSTI ID:1833451

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Here, we present the first in-depth study of X-ray emission from a nearby (z ~ 0.0784) galaxy cluster Abell 1569 using an archival Chandra observation. A1569 consists of two unbound subclusters – a northern subcluster (A1569N) hosting a double-lobed radio galaxy 1233+169 at its centre, and a southern subcluster (A1569S) harbouring a wide-angle-tailed (WAT) radio source 1233+168. X-ray emission from A1569N and A1569S extends to a radius r ~248 kpc and r ~370 kpc, respectively, indicating that the two gas clumps are group-scale systems. The two subclusters have low X-ray luminosities (~10^42–43 erg s^–1), average elemental abundances ~1/4 Z_⊙, low average temperatures (~2 keV), and lack large (r ≳ 40–50 kpc) cool cores associated with the intracluster gas. We detect a pair of cavities coincident with the radio lobes of 1233+169 in A1569N. The total mechanical power associated with the cavity pair is an order of magnitude larger than the X-ray radiative loss in the cavity-occupied region, providing corroborating evidence for cavity-induced heating of the intragroup gas in A1569N. A1569S exhibits possible evidence for a small-scale cluster-subcluster merger, as indicated by its high central entropy, and the presence of local gas elongation and a density discontinuity in between the bent radio tails of 1233+168. The discontinuity is indicative of a weak merger shock with Mach Number, M ~ 1.7. The most plausible geometry for the ongoing interaction is a head-on merger occurring between A1569S and a subcluster falling in from the west along the line bisecting the WAT tails.

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Research Organization:: US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington, DC (United States). Office of Science, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

OSTI ID:: 1833451

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1982557

Journal Information:: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 509 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 0035-8711

Publisher:: Oxford University PressCopyright Statement

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