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Issue A&A
Volume 449, Number 2, April II 2006
Page(s) 475 - 491
Section Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20053868

A&A 449, 475-491 (2006)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20053868

XMM-Newton spectroscopy of the cluster of galaxies 2A 0335+096

N. Werner1, J. de Plaa1, 2, J. S. Kaastra1, Jacco Vink1, 2, J. A. M. Bleeker1, 2, T. Tamura3, J. R. Peterson4 and F. Verbunt2

1  SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
    e-mail: n.werner@sron.nl
2  Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, PO Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
3  Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan
4  KIPAC, Stanford University, PO Box 90450, MS 29, Stanford, CA 94039, USA

(Received 20 July 2005 / Accepted 30 November 2005 )

Abstract
We present here the results of a deep (130 ks) XMM-Newton observation of the cluster of galaxies 2A 0335+096. The deep exposure allows us to study in detail its temperature structure and its elemental abundances. We fit three different thermal models and find that the multi-temperature wdem model fits our data best. We find that the abundance structure of the cluster is consistent with a scenario where the relative number of type Ia supernovae contributing to the enrichment of the intra-cluster medium is ~25%, while the relative number of core collapse supernovae is ~75%. Comparison of the observed abundances to the supernova yields does not allow us to put any constrains on the contribution of Pop III stars to the enrichment of the ICM. Radial abundance profiles show a strong central peak of both type Ia and core collapse supernova products. Both the temperature and iron abundance maps show an asymmetry in the direction of the elongated morphology of the surface brightness. In particular the temperature map shows a sharp change over a brightness edge on the southern side of the core, which was identified as a cold front in the Chandra data. This suggests that the cluster is in the process of a merger with a subcluster. Moreover, we find that the blobs or filaments discovered in the core of the cluster by Chandra are, contrary to the previous results, colder than the ambient gas and they appear to be in pressure equilibrium with their environment.


Key words: galaxies: clusters: general -- galaxies: clusters: individual: 2A 0335+096 -- cooling flows -- intergalactic medium -- galaxies: abundances -- X-rays: galaxies: clusters

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