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Volume 536, December 2011
Planck early results
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Article Number | A26 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201117430 | |
Published online | 01 December 2011 |
Planck early results. XXVI. Detection with Planck and confirmation by XMM-Newton of PLCK G266.6–27.3, an exceptionally X-ray luminous and massive galaxy cluster at z ~ 1⋆
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Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory,
Metsähovintie 114, 02540
Kylmälä,
Finland
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Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Science Data Center,
c/o ESRIN, via Galileo Galilei,
Frascati,
Italy
3
Astroparticule et Cosmologie, CNRS (UMR7164), Université Denis
Diderot Paris 7, Bâtiment
Condorcet, 10 rue A. Domon et Léonie Duquet, Paris, France
4
Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of
Cambridge, J J Thomson
Avenue, Cambridge
CB3 0HE,
UK
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Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, ALMA Santiago
Central Offices, Alonso de Cordova
3107, Vitacura, Casilla
763 0355, Santiago, Chile
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CITA, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, ON
M5S 3H8,
Canada
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CNRS, IRAP, 9
Av. colonel Roche, BP
44346, 31028
Toulouse Cedex 4,
France
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
9 Centre of Mathematics for
Applications, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo,
Norway
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Centro de Astrofísica, Universidade do Porto,
Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762
Porto,
Portugal
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Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón
(CEFCA), Plaza San Juan, 1, planta
2, 44001
Teruel,
Spain
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DSM/Irfu/SPP, CEA-Saclay, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex,
France
13
DTU Space, National Space Institute, Juliane Mariesvej 30, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Departamento de Física Fundamental, Facultad de Ciencias,
Universidad de Salamanca, 37008
Salamanca,
Spain
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Departamento de Física, Universidad de Oviedo,
Avda. Calvo Sotelo s/n,
Oviedo,
Spain
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of
Toronto, 50 Saint George Street,
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada
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Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British
Columbia, 6224
Agricultural Road, Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern
California, Los
Angeles, California, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Sussex, Brighton
BN1 9QH,
UK
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Department of Physics, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2a, University of
Helsinki, Helsinki,
Finland
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Department of Physics, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Department of Physics, Purdue University,
525 Northwestern Avenue,
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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Department of Physics, University of California,
Berkeley, California, USA
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Department of Physics, University of California,
Santa Barbara, California, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 1110
West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Dipartimento di Fisica G. Galilei, Università degli Studi di
Padova, via Marzolo
8, 35131
Padova,
Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università La Sapienza,
P.le A. Moro 2, Roma, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di
Milano, via Celoria
16, Milano,
Italy
29
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di
Trieste, via A. Valerio
2, Trieste,
Italy
30
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara,
via Saragat 1, 44122
Ferrara,
Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor
Vergata, via della Ricerca
Scientifica 1, Roma, Italy
32
Discovery Center, Niels Bohr Institute,
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
33
Dpto. Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL),
38206
La Laguna, Tenerife,
Spain
34
European Southern Observatory, ESO Vitacura, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Casilla
19001, Santiago, Chile
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European Space Agency, ESAC, Camino bajo del Castillo
s/n, Urbanización Villafranca del
Castillo, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain
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European Space Agency, ESAC, Planck Science Office, Camino bajo
del Castillo s/n, Urbanización Villafranca del Castillo, Villanueva de la
Cañada, Madrid,
Spain
37
European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ
Noordwijk, The
Netherlands
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Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), University of
Turku, Väisäläntie 20,
21500, Piikkiö,
Finland
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Helsinki Institute of Physics, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2,
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo
dell’Osservatorio 5, Padova, Italy
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INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via di Frascati
33, Monte Porzio
Catone, Italy
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INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste,
via G.B. Tiepolo 11,
Trieste,
Italy
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INAF/IASF Bologna, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, Italy
44
INAF/IASF Milano, via E. Bassini 15, Milano, Italy
45 IPAG (Institut de Planétologie et
d’Astrophysique de Grenoble), Université JosephFourier, Grenoble 1/CNRS-INSU, UMR 5274, Grenoble, 38041, France
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ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, University of
Geneva, ch. d’Ecogia
16, Versoix,
Switzerland
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Imperial College London, Astrophysics group, Blackett
Laboratory, Prince Consort
Road, London
SW7 2AZ,
UK
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Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena,
CA
91125,
USA
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Institut Néel, CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble
I, 25 rue des
Martyrs, Grenoble,
France
50
Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, CNRS (UMR8617) Université
Paris-Sud 11, Bâtiment
121, Orsay,
France
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Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS (UMR7095),
98bis boulevard Arago,
75014, Paris, France
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Institut de Ciències de l’Espai, CSIC/IEEC, Facultat de
Ciències, Campus UAB, Torre C5
par-2, Bellaterra
08193,
Spain
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Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest-Magurale,
Romania
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Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia
Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan
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Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge,
Madingley Road, Cambridge
CB3 0HA,
UK
56 Institute of Theoretical
Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo,
Norway
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/Vía Láctea s/n, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-Universidad de
Cantabria), Avda. de los Castros
s/n, Santander,
Spain
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Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, CNR-ENEA-EURATOM
Association, via R. Cozzi
53, Milano,
Italy
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology, 4800
Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California, USA
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Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Alan Turing Building, School
of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester
M13 9PL,
UK
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Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge,
Madingley Road, Cambridge
CB3 0HA,
UK
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LERMA, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 61 avenue de l’Observatoire, Paris, France
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Laboratoire AIM, IRFU/Service d’Astrophysique – CEA/DSM – CNRS –
Université Paris Diderot, Bât. 709,
CEA-Saclay, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex,
France
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Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, CNRS/IN2P3,
Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble I, Institut National Polytechnique de
Grenoble, 53 rue des
Martyrs, 38026
Grenoble Cedex,
France
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Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, Université Paris-Sud 11,
CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay,
France
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, California, USA
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Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85741
Garching,
Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik,
Giessenbachstraße, 85748
Garching,
Germany
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Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Observational Cosmology, Mail Stop 367-17, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena,
CA, 91125, USA
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Optical Science Laboratory, University College
London, Gower
Street, London,
UK
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SISSA, Astrophysics Sector, via Bonomea 265, 34136, Trieste, Italy
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University,
Queens Buildings, The Parade,
Cardiff
CF24 3AA,
UK
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Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of
Sciences, Profsoyuznaya Str,
84/32, Moscow
117997,
Russia
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Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California,
Berkeley, California, USA
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Stanford University, Dept of Physics, Varian Physics
Bldg, 382 via Pueblo
Mall, Stanford,
California,
USA
78 Tartu Observatory,
Toravere, Tartumaa,
61602,
Estonia
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Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Turku, Väisäläntie
20, 21500
Piikkiö,
Finland
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UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR7095, 98bis boulevard Arago, 75014
Paris,
France
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Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Theoretische
Astrophysik, Albert-Überle-Str.
2, 69120
Heidelberg,
Germany
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Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP,
31028
Toulouse Cedex 4,
France
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University Observatory, Ludwig Maximilian University of
Munich, Scheinerstrasse
1, 81679
Munich,
Germany
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University of Granada, Departamento de Física Teórica y del
Cosmos, Facultad de Ciencias, Granada, Spain
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Warsaw University Observatory, Aleje Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478
Warszawa,
Poland
Received: 7 June 2011
Accepted: 11 July 2011
We present first results on PLCKG266.6−27.3, a galaxy cluster candidate detected at a signal-to-noise ratio of 5 in the Planck All Sky survey. An XMM-Newton validation observation has allowed us to confirm that the candidate isa bona fide galaxy cluster. With these X-ray data we measure an accurate redshift, z = 0.94 ± 0.02, and estimate the cluster mass to be M500 = (7.8 ± 0.8) × 1014 M⊙. PLCKG266.6−27.3 is an exceptional system: its luminosity of LX [0.5−2.0 keV] = (1.4 ± 0.05) × 1045 erg s-1 equals that of the two most luminous known clusters in the z > 0.5 universe, and it is one of the most massive clusters at z ~ 1. Moreover, unlike the majority of high-redshift clusters, PLCKG266.6−27.3 appears to be highly relaxed. This observation confirms Planck’s capability of detecting high-redshift, high-mass clusters, and opens the way to the systematic study of population evolution in the exponential tail of the mass function.
Key words: cosmology: observations / galaxies: clusters: general / galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium / X-rays: galaxies: clusters / cosmic background radiation
© ESO, 2011
1. Introduction
Very massive clusters above redshift z ~ 1, when the Universe was at half the present age, are predicted to be very rare. They potentially provide a sensitive probe to constrain deviations from the standard ΛCDM paradigm (e.g. Mortonson et al. 2011); e.g., owing to non-Gaussian perturbations, non-standard quintessence models or modified gravity models (see Allen et al. 2011, for a review). They are also ideal targets for studying key aspects of the gravitational physics that drives cluster formation, including measurement of the evolution of the mass concentration. For these reasons, the scientific community has, over the past two decades, put strong effort into the discovery and characterisation of these objects.
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Fig.1 Left panel: PlanckYSZ map of PLCKG266.6−27.3 obtained with the modified internal linear combination algorithm (MILCA; Hurier et al. 2010) with a spatial resolution of 10′. Middle panel: XMM-Newton exposure-corrected count rate image of the region indicated by the black box in the left panel. It is obtained using data from the EMOS12 and EPN camera in the [0.3−2.0] keV energy band. The contours of the XMM-Newton image after wavelet filtering are overlaid in white. Right panel: corresponding XMM-Newton surface brightness profile. The green line indicates the best-fitting β-model with a cusp (see text); the red line is this model convolved with the point spread function (PSF) of XMM-Newton, and the dashed line is the on-axis PSF of XMM-Newton, normalised to the central intensity. The source is clearly significantly extended. |
Until recently it was possible to identify clusters of galaxies only via optical/infrared or X-ray surveys. Indeed, the most distant clusters presently known have all been detected with these techniques, e.g., the IR-selected cluster CLJ1449+0856 at z = 2.07 (Gobat et al. 2011) and the X-ray selected system XMMUJ105324.7+572348 at z = 1.75 (Henry et al. 2010). For both of these objects, extended X-ray emission has been detected with XMM-Newton, confirming their status as fully established galaxy clusters; however, their total masses are more typical of systems in the poor cluster or group regime (≲1014 M⊙). Until recently, the most massive cluster known in the z ≳ 1 universe was XMMUJ2235.3−2557 at z = 1.39, discovered in the XMM-Newton Distant Cluster Project (XDCP) based on serendipitous cluster searches in XMM-Newton observations (Mullis et al. 2005). For this system, Jee et al. (2009) estimate a mass of M200 = (7.3 ± 1.3) × 1014 M⊙ from a weak lensing analysis.
However, clusters are also detectable through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect (Sunyaev & Zeldovich 1972), the spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) generated via inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons by the hot electrons in the intra-cluster medium. Crucially, the total SZ signal is expected to be closely related to the cluster mass (e.g. da Silva et al. 2004), and its brightness insensitive to redshift dimming. As a result, SZ surveys can potentially provide unbiased cluster samples that are as close as possible to being mass-selected1. They offer an ideal way to identify massive, high-redshift clusters. One recent illustration is the detection of SPT-CLJ2106−5844 at z = 1.13 by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey (Foley et al. 2011). With an estimated mass of M200 = (1.27 ± 0.21) × 1015 M⊙, SPT-CLJ2106−5844 is nearly twice as massive as XMMUJ2235.3−2557.
The Planck2 satellite has been surveying the sky in the microwave band since August 2009 (Planck Collaboration 2011a) with a good (band-dependent) spatial resolution of 5 arcmin (Mennella et al. 2011; Planck HFI Core Team 2011a). Compared to other SZ experiments such as ACT (Marriage et al. 2011) or SPT (Carlstrom et al. 2011), Planck brings unique nine-band coverage from 30 to 857 GHz and, most crucially, an exceptionally large survey volume. Planck is the first all-sky survey capable of blindly detecting clusters (i.e., not guided in the search by prior observations), since the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) in the X-ray domain. This coverage allows detection of the rarest clusters, the most massive objects lying in the exponential tail of the mass function.
Planck Collaboration (2011d) recently published the early SZ (ESZ) sample, the first sample of galaxy clusters detected blindly in the all-sky maps from the first ten months of the Planck survey. The properties of this first sample already show that Planck is detecting previously unknown, massive clusters that do not appear in RASS or in other smaller area SZ surveys (Planck Collaboration 2011e). The ESZ comprises high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N > 6) Planck SZ sources up to z = 0.5. We report here on an SZ source that was blindly identified at S/N ~ 5 in the Planck all-sky survey, and recent XMM-Newton validation observations confirm it is a massive cluster at z ~ 1.
In this paper, we adopt a ΛCDM cosmology with
H0 = 70 km s− Mpc, ΩM = 0.3, and
ΩΛ = 0.7. The factor is the ratio of the Hubble constant at
redshift z to its present-day value. The
quantities Mδ
and Rδ are the total mass and radius
corresponding to a total density contrast δ, as compared
to ρc(z), the critical density of the
Universe at the cluster redshift;
. The SZ flux is characterised
by Y500, where
is the spherically integrated Compton
parameter within R500 (corresponding to
δ = 500), and DA is the angular-diameter
distance to the cluster.
2. Planck detection
The blind search for clusters in Planck data relies on a multi-matched filter (MMF) approach (Melin et al. 2006). Candidates then undergo a validation process, including internal quality checks and cross-correlation with ancillary data and catalogues, as described in Planck Collaboration (2011d). This process produces a list of new Planck SZ cluster candidates above a given S/N threshold that require follow-up for confirmation. The XMM-Newton follow-up for validation, undertaken in Director’s Discretionary Time via an agreement between the XMM-Newton and Planck Project Scientists, plays a central role in this confirmation procedure. It consists of snapshot exposures (~10 ks), sufficient for unambiguous discrimination between clusters and false candidates (Planck Collaboration 2011e). The results of the first two runs (completed in September 2010) are reported by Planck Collaboration (2011d,e).
The XMM-Newton validation programme is continuing to explore
lower S/N and detection quality criteria. PLCKG266.6−27.3, detected at
S/N = 5.03, was observed in the framework of the third
run of the XMM-Newton validation programme, for which the analysis is
on-going. This run comprises a total of 11 candidates detected at
4.5 < S/N < 5.3 from the same
Planck HFI maps used for the construction the ESZ sample. The
11 candidates were sent for scheduling in November 2010 and the observations were performed
between 22 December 2010 and 16 May 2011. Interestingly, PLCKG266.6−27.3 has been
independently detected in the SPT survey. Its Planck position
(, −57°47′29″) is consistent with that of
SPT-CLJ0615-5746 (Williamson et al. 2011, published on arXiv.org in January 2011, with a photometric redshift
of zphot = 1 ± 0.1).
3. XMM-Newton validation
3.1. Observation and data reduction
PLCKG266.6−27.3 was observed with the XMM-Newton EPIC instrument (Turner et al. 2001; Strüder et al. 2001), using the thin filters and the extended full frame mode for the “pn-CCD” camera. The data analysis and validation procedure is described in Planck Collaboration (2011e). Calibrated event lists were produced with v11.0 of the XMM-Newton Science Analysis System. Data that are affected by periods of high background due to soft proton flares were omitted from the analysis, and the remaining data were pattern-selected and corrected for vignetting, as described in Pratt et al. (2007). Bright point sources were excised from the data. Background treatment is described in Pratt et al. (2010). In the spectroscopic analysis, the cluster component was modelled with an absorbed thermal emission model (mekal) with a hydrogen column density fixed at the 21-cm value of Dickey & Lockman (1990).
The observation, OBSID = 0658200101, was affected by soft proton flares. The net exposure time after flare cleaning is only 2.4 ks for the pn-CCD camera, with a particle background 30% higher than nominal. The MOS camera data are less affected with a clean time of ~12 ks and a background excess about two times lower. We undertook a conservative approach to analysing spectroscopic data, since they are the most sensitive to the background estimate. We first fitted the data from the three cameras simultaneously, then fitted only the MOS cameras. The uncertainties in the physical quantities below reflect the difference in best-fitting values between the two analyses and their errors.
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Fig.2 XMM-Newton EMOS1 (black) and EMOS2 (red) spectra extracted from a
circular region of |
3.2. Confirmation and z estimate
In Fig. 1 we show the vignetting-corrected count
rate image of the cluster in the [0.3−2.0] keV band. An extended X-ray source is clearly
coincident with PLCKG266.6−27.3. Its total EPIC count rate in the [0.3−2.0] keV band is
(0.52 ± 0.02) count/s within 2.3′, the maximum radius of detection. The offset between
the X-ray cluster centre, defined as the emission peak
at ,
, and the Planck blind
position is
, consistent with the position
reconstruction uncertainty, driven by the Planck spatial resolution and
the source S/N (Planck
Collaboration 2011d). The extended nature of the source is confirmed by comparing
the surface brightness profile with the XMM-Newton point spread function
(PSF) (Fig. 1, right panel). A typical
(PSF-convolved) cluster surface brightness model consisting of a β-model
with a central cusp (Eq. (2) in Pratt & Arnaud
2002) provides a good fit to the data and further supports the extended nature of
the source (Fig. 1).
We extracted a spectrum within a circular region corresponding to the maximum
significance of the X-ray detection (). The iron K line complex is clearly
detected (Fig. 2). Its significance
is 3.6σ, estimated from a fit of the spectrum in the [2−6] keV band
with a continuum plus a Gaussian line model. Since the centroid of the line complex
depends on the temperature, the redshift is determined from a thermal model fit to the
full spectrum, as described in detail in Planck
Collaboration (2011e). This yields a precise redshift estimate of
z = 0.94 ± 0.02.
4. Physical cluster properties
4.1. An exceptionally luminous and massive cluster
We derived the deprojected, PSF-corrected gas density profile from the surface brightness
profile, using the non-parametric method described in Croston et al. (2006). Global cluster parameters were then estimated
self-consistently within R500 via iteration about the
M500 − YX relation of Arnaud et al. (2010), assuming standard evolution,
. The
quantity YX, introduced by Kravtsov et al. (2006), is defined as the product
of Mg,500, the gas mass within
R500, and TX.
TX is the spectroscopic temperature measured in the
[0.15−0.75] R500 aperture.
In addition, L500, the X-ray luminosity
inside R500, was calculated as described in Pratt et al. (2009). All resulting X-ray properties,
including iron abundance, are summarised in Table 1.
PLCKG266.6−27.3 is an exceptionally luminous system. Its [0.1−2.4] keV band luminosity of (22.7 ± 0.8) × 1044 erg s-1 is equal to that of the fifth most luminous object in the MCXC compilation of Piffaretti et al. (2011), MACSJ0717.5+3745 at z = 0.55, discovered in the RASS by Edge et al. (2003). Moreover, its [0.5−2.0] keV band luminosity is consistent with that of SPT-CLJ2106−5844, the most luminous cluster known beyond z = 1 (Foley et al. 2011). Collectively, these three clusters are the most luminous systems at z > 0.5. They are only 40% fainter than RXJ1347.5-1145, the most X-ray luminous cluster known in the Universe (Piffaretti et al. 2011).
Physical properties of PLCKG266.6−27.3 derived from XMM-Newton data.
Consistent with expectations for high-redshift Planck-detected clusters,
we find that this cluster is extremely hot,
TX ~ 11 keV, and massive, with a mass of
× 1014 M⊙. Our mass estimate is consistent with
the less precise value, M500 = 8 ± 2 (statistical) ±
1.9 (systematic) × 1014 M⊙, which is derived
by Williamson et al. (2011) using the relation
between SPT S/N and mass. Comparison of the masses of
high-redshift systems is not trivial, because the estimation strongly depends on method,
e.g. which mass proxy is used and at what reference radius the mass is measured. On the
basis of the published mass estimates, PLCKG266.6−27.3 would appear to be the most massive
cluster at z ~ 1. Using the same factor to
convert M500 to M200 as Foley et al. (2011), we obtain
× 1014 M⊙, to be compared to
M200 = (12.7 ± 2.1)3 × 1014 M⊙ for SPT-CLJ2106-5844.
However, the last value was derived by combining X-ray and SZ data. A more direct
comparison of M500 values estimated from the
M500 − YX relation indicates
that they are identical within their uncertainties:
M500 = (7.8 ± 0.8) × 1014 M⊙ for PLCKG266.6−27.3 and
M500 = (9.3 ± 2.0) × 1014 M⊙ for SPT-CLJ2106−5844.
4.2. Y500 Compton parameter versus YX
The MMF blind detection was performed using the universal pressure profile of Arnaud et al. (2010) as a spatial template, leaving the
position, characteristic size, θ500, and
SZ flux, Y500, as free parameters. The resulting flux,
Y500 = (5.6 ± 3.0) × 10-4 arcmin2,
is consistent with the value, × 10-4 arcmin2,
expected from the measured value of YX using the scaling
relation derived from the universal pressure profile (Arnaud et al. 2010, Eq. (19)). The cluster size, comparable to
Planck’s spatial resolution, is poorly constrained,
±
. As discussed in Planck Collaboration (2011d), the uncertainty on the blind
Y500 value is then large because of the flux-size
degeneracy, where an overestimate of the cluster size induces an overestimate of the
SZ signal. The SZ photometry can be improved by using the more precise
XMM-Newton position and size in the flux extraction. The
Y500 value obtained using these X-ray priors,
Y500 = (4.1 ± 0.9) × 10-4 arcmin2,
is lower than the value expected from the X-ray data at the
1.7σ significance level.
SZ flux derived from Planck data with the reference value indicated in boldface.
To check the robustness of the Y500 estimate, we compared the MMF value with the one derived from the PowellSnakes (PWS; Carvalho et al. 2009, and in prep.) algorithm and the modified internal linear combination algorithm (MILCA; Hurier et al. 2010). The values are given in Table 2. PWS is a blind detection algorithm that assumes the same profile shape as MMF, but is based on a Bayesian statistical approach, as fully described in Carvalho et al. (2009). MMF and PWS give consistent results, the difference between MMF and PWS Y500 values being about 1.3 times the respective 1σ uncertainties. MILCA is a component separation method that allows reconstruction of the SZ map around the cluster from an optimised linear combination of Planck HFI maps. In contrast to the MMF and PWS methods, the SZ flux derived from MILCA is obtained from aperture photometry, i.e., with no assumptions on SZ profile shape or size. Assuming a typical conversion factor of 2/3 based on the universal profile to convert the total Ytot MILCA measurement to Y500, the MMF and MILCA estimates are in excellent agreement.
Several factors may affect the X-ray and SZ flux measurements and bring them out of
accord. We have checked for possible AGN contamination that could lower the
Y500 value using the NVSS (at 1.4 GHz, Condon et al. 1998) and SUMSS (at 0.84 GHz, Bock et al. 1999) catalogues, but no bright radio sources are found in
the cluster vicinity. The closest radio source with significant flux density is
at away. The source has a 1 GHz flux density
of 0.46 Jy. We also find no evidence of radio contamination in the low-frequency
Planck bands. On the other hand, the
YX measurement may also be increased by AGN contamination,
from cluster members or foreground/background galaxies. Point source contamination is
difficult to estimate owing to the XMM-Newton PSF. So, we estimate a
maximum contribution to the X-ray luminosity from a central active galaxy of ≲ 20%,
assuming a point source model normalised to the central value of the X-ray surface
brightness. The contribution to the gas mass, hence to YX,
would be less, provided that the source is not hard enough to significantly
affect TX. Nevertheless, only high-resolution X-ray imaging
(e.g., from Chandra) can definitively establish whether X-ray AGNs at the
cluster location affect our luminosity or mass measurement. A departure from the universal
pressure profile would change the
Y500/YX ratio. The density
profile shown below does not show any indication of this effect; however, deep spatially
resolved XMM-Newton and Chandra spectroscopic
observations are needed to derive the radial pressure gradient from the core
to R500. A final interesting possibility is that gas
clumping could affect the YX measurements. A combination of
X-ray and higher resolution SZ observations is required to assess this point.
4.3. Dynamical state and self-similarity of shape up to high z
The available information indicates that PLCKG266.6−27.3 may be particularly dynamically relaxed. The cluster image (Fig. 1, middle panel) does not show any sign of disturbance: the surface brightness is quite regular and quasi-azimuthally symmetric within R500. The offset between the X-ray surface brightness peak and the cluster brightest galaxy (Williamson et al. 2011, Fig. 19) is less than 5″.
To further examine the dynamical state of the cluster, in Fig. 3 we compare its scaled density profile to those of clusters in the local representative X-ray-selected sample REXCESS (Böhringer et al. 2007; Croston et al. 2008). The radii are scaled by R500 and the density by the mean within R500. As extensively discussed by Pratt et al. (2009) and Arnaud et al. (2010), morphologically disturbed (i.e., merging) systems have systematically shallower density profiles than more relaxed cool core objects. This is illustrated in Fig. 3, where we indicate the scaled density profiles of the more relaxed cool core and the dynamically active merging clusters. The scaled density profile of PLCKG266.6−27.3 lies between the two classes, but with an indication of being closer to the relaxed rather than the merging systems. It is thus possible that PLCKG266.6−27.3 is a cool core object at z ~ 1. Such objects are expected to be rare (e.g., Vikhlinin et al. 2007; Santos et al. 2010), and no cluster at this redshift has yet been found to contain a resolved central temperature drop that would confirm the presence of a cool core. A deep exposure at Chandra spatial resolution is needed to check this hypothesis.
It is worth emphasising the similarity beyond the core of the density profile of this cluster with respect to REXCESS systems. This is the first piece of evidence for a similarity of shape up to redshifts as high as z ~ 1.
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Fig.3 Scaled density profiles of the REXCESS local cluster sample (Böhringer et al. 2007; Croston et al. 2008). The blue lines show the profiles for the cool core systems, and the orange lines the density profiles of the morphologically disturbed systems. The density profile of PLCKG266.6−27.3 is shown with a thick red line. |
5. Conclusion
PLCKG266.6−27.3 is the first blindly discovered Planck cluster of galaxies at z ~ 1. It has been confirmed by XMM-Newton in the framework of the on-going validation DDT observations. XMM-Newton data allowed us to measure the redshift with high accuracy (z = 0.94 ± 0.02) and estimate the cluster mass to be M500 = (7.8 ± 0.8) × 1014 M⊙. This XMM-Newton confirmation and redshift estimate is a clear demonstration of the capability of Planck for detecting high-z, high-mass clusters.
PLCKG266.6−27.3 is an exceptional system, both in terms of its luminosity and its estimated mass. Furthermore, unlike other high-redshift clusters, it is likely to be a relaxed system, potentially allowing accurate hydrostatic mass measurements. It is thus a perfect target for deep multi-wavelength follow-up to address such important cosmological issues as the evolution of dark matter profiles, the evolution of the mass-YSZ relation, gas clumping, and the bias between X-ray and lensing mass estimates at such high redshift.
Planck (http://www.esa.int/Planck) is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) with instruments provided by two scientific consortia funded by ESA member states (in particular the lead countries: France and Italy) with contributions from NASA (USA), and telescope reflectors provided in a collaboration between ESA and a scientific consortium led and funded by Denmark.
Acknowledgments
The Planck Collaboration thanks Norbert Schartel for his support of the validation process and for granting discretionary time for the observation of Planck cluster candidates. The present work is based on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and the USA (NASA). This research has made use of the following databases: SIMBAD, operated at the CDS, Strasbourg, France; the NED database, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; BAX, which is operated by the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Tarbes-Toulouse (LATT), under contract with the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES); and the SZ repository operated by IAS Data and Operation Center (IDOC) under contract with CNES. A description of the Planck Collaboration and a list of its members, indicating which technical or scientific activities they have been involved in, can be found at http://www.rssd.esa.int/Planck_Collaboration. The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MICINN and JA (Spain); Tekes, AoF and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); and DEISA (EU).
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Fig.1 Left panel: PlanckYSZ map of PLCKG266.6−27.3 obtained with the modified internal linear combination algorithm (MILCA; Hurier et al. 2010) with a spatial resolution of 10′. Middle panel: XMM-Newton exposure-corrected count rate image of the region indicated by the black box in the left panel. It is obtained using data from the EMOS12 and EPN camera in the [0.3−2.0] keV energy band. The contours of the XMM-Newton image after wavelet filtering are overlaid in white. Right panel: corresponding XMM-Newton surface brightness profile. The green line indicates the best-fitting β-model with a cusp (see text); the red line is this model convolved with the point spread function (PSF) of XMM-Newton, and the dashed line is the on-axis PSF of XMM-Newton, normalised to the central intensity. The source is clearly significantly extended. |
In the text |
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Fig.2 XMM-Newton EMOS1 (black) and EMOS2 (red) spectra extracted from a
circular region of |
In the text |
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Fig.3 Scaled density profiles of the REXCESS local cluster sample (Böhringer et al. 2007; Croston et al. 2008). The blue lines show the profiles for the cool core systems, and the orange lines the density profiles of the morphologically disturbed systems. The density profile of PLCKG266.6−27.3 is shown with a thick red line. |
In the text |
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