Astronomers from the University of Alabama in Huntsville have investigated the galaxy cluster Abell 3558 using ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft. In their results, they detected two large-scale sloshing cold fronts in the outskirts of this cluster. The finding was reported in a paper published August 30 on the pre-print server arXiv.
Background-subtracted, exposure-corrected XMM mosaicked image of the galaxy cluster Abell 3558 in the 0.7–1.2 keV energy band. The white circle marks the location of the rradius and the black curved line shows the location of the inner cold front. The two newly identified outer edges, one at 600 kpc from the core to the south-east and the other at 1.2 Mpc from the core to the north-west, are highlighted with arrows.
At a redshift of 0.048, Abell 3558 is one of the clusters in the Abell 3558 cluster complex located in the Shapley Supercluster. It has a mass of about 980 trillioncold front at a distance of approximately 320,000 light years to the north-west of the cluster's core. In general, the so-called cold fronts are sharp surface brightness discontinuities observed in X-ray images, where the drop of the surface brightness and gas density is accompanied by a jump in the gas temperature, with the denser region colder than the more rarefied region.
The cold front detected in Abell 3558 is assumed to be due to large-scale sloshing, induced by a passage of a small galaxy group, likely SC 1327–312, or by an off-axis merger with a more massive system. A team ofled by Mohammad Mirakhor has analyzed archival XMM-Newton images of Abell 3558 in order to shed more light on this cold front, what resulted in the discovery of two new such features.
The researchers identified two abrupt surface brightness discontinuities at large-scale radii outside the core of Abell 3558 that have not been reported previously. One of them is located about 2 million light years from the cluster core to the south-east and the other is situated approximately 4 millionconfirmed that these two discontinuities are in fact large-scale cold fronts. Based on the collected data, the astronomers estimate that the cold front in the south-east direction is about 8.
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