An XMM-Newton observation of the dynamically active binary cluster A1750

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Issue		A&A Volume 415, Number 3, March I 2004


Page(s)		821 - 838
Section		Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
DOI		http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20034239

A&A 415, 821-838 (2004)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20034239

An XMM-Newton observation of the dynamically active binary cluster A1750

E. Belsole^{1, 2}, G. W. Pratt¹, J.-L. Sauvageot¹ and H. Bourdin³

¹ Service d'Astrophysique, CEA Saclay, L'Orme des Merisiers, Bât. 709, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
e-mail: gwp@discovery.saclay.cea.fr; jsauvageot@cea.fr
² H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
³ Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
e-mail: bourdin@obs-nice.fr

(Received 28 August 2003 / Accepted 19 November 2003 )

Abstract
We present results from the XMM-Newton observation of the binary cluster A1750 at z = 0.086. We have performed a detailed study of the surface brightness, temperature and entropy distribution and confirm that the two main clusters of the system (A1750 N and A1750 C) have just started to interact. From the temperature distribution, we calculate that they are likely to merge sometime in the next 1 Gyr. The more massive cluster, A1750 C, displays a more complicated temperature structure than expected. We detect a hot region associated with a density jump ~450 kpc east of the cluster centre, which appears to be a shock wave. This shock is not connected with the binary merger, but it is intrinsic to A1750 C itself. From simple physical arguments and comparison with numerical simulations, we argue that this shock is related to a merging event that A1750 C has suffered in the past 1-2 Gyr. The larger scale structure around A1750 suggests that the system belongs to a rich supercluster, which would presumably increase the likelihood of merger events. These new XMM-Newton data thus show that A1750 is a complex system, where two clusters are starting to interact before having re-established equilibrium after a previous merger. This merger within a merger indicates that the present day morphology of clusters may depend not only on on-going interactions or the last major merging event, but also on the more ancient merger history, especially in dense environments.

Key words: X-rays: galaxies: clusters -- X-rays: individual: A1750 -- X-rays: general -- cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe -- shock waves

Offprint request: E. Belsole, e.belsole@bristol.ac.uk

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