On the merging cluster Abell 578 and its central radio galaxy 4C+67.13
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science JAXA, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210 (Japan)
- Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)
- Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 (United States)
- Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, ul. Orla 171, 30-244 Kraków (Poland)
Here we analyze radio, optical, and X-ray data for the peculiar cluster Abell 578. This cluster is not fully relaxed and consists of two merging sub-systems. The brightest cluster galaxy (BCG), CGPG 0719.8+6704, is a pair of interacting ellipticals with projected separation ∼10 kpc, the brighter of which hosts the radio source 4C+67.13. The Fanaroff–Riley type-II radio morphology of 4C+67.13 is unusual for central radio galaxies in local Abell clusters. Our new optical spectroscopy revealed that both nuclei of the CGPG 0719.8+6704 pair are active, albeit at low accretion rates corresponding to the Eddington ratio ∼10{sup −4} (for the estimated black hole masses of ∼3×10{sup 8} M{sub ⊙} and ∼10{sup 9} M{sub ⊙}). The gathered X-ray (Chandra) data allowed us to confirm and to quantify robustly the previously noted elongation of the gaseous atmosphere in the dominant sub-cluster, as well as a large spatial offset (∼60 kpc projected) between the position of the BCG and the cluster center inferred from the modeling of the X-ray surface brightness distribution. Detailed analysis of the brightness profiles and temperature revealed also that the cluster gas in the vicinity of 4C+67.13 is compressed (by a factor of about ∼1.4) and heated (from ≃2.0 keV up to 2.7 keV), consistent with the presence of a weak shock (Mach number ∼1.3) driven by the expanding jet cocoon. This would then require the jet kinetic power of the order of ∼10{sup 45} erg s{sup −1}, implying either a very high efficiency of the jet production for the current accretion rate, or a highly modulated jet/accretion activity in the system.
- OSTI ID:
- 22883156
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 805, Issue 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Since 2009, the country of publication for this journal is the UK.; ISSN 0004-637X
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
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journal | May 2018 |
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journal | April 2019 |
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