Megan Donahue et al. 1998 ApJ 502 550 doi:10.1086/305923
A Very Hot High-Redshift Cluster of Galaxies: More Trouble for Ω0 = 1
FREEMegan Donahue1, G. Mark Voit1, Isabella Gioia2,5,6, Gerry Luppino2, John P. Hughes3 and John T. Stocke4
Show affiliationsWe have observed the most distant (z = 0.829) cluster of galaxies in the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) with the ASCA and ROSAT satellites. We find an X-ray temperature of 12.3+ 3.1−2.2 keV for this cluster, and the ROSAT map reveals significant substructure. The high temperature of MS 1054-0321 is consistent with both its approximate velocity dispersion, based on the redshifts of 12 cluster members that we have obtained at the Keck and the Canada-France-Hawaii telescopes, and with its weak lensing signature. The X-ray temperature of this cluster implies a virial mass ~7.4 × 1014 h-1 M
, if the mean matter density in the universe equals the critical value (Ω0 = 1), or larger if Ω0 < 1. Finding such a hot, massive cluster in the EMSS is extremely improbable if clusters grew from Gaussian perturbations in an Ω0 = 1 universe. Combining the assumptions that Ω0 = 1 and that the intial perturbations were Gaussian with the observed X-ray temperature function at low redshift, we show that this probability of this cluster occurring in the volume sampled by the EMSS is less than a few times 10-5. Nor is MS 1054-0321 the only hot cluster at high redshift; the only two other z > 0.5 EMSS clusters already observed with ASCA also have temperatures exceeding 8 keV. Assuming again that the initial perturbations were Gaussian and Ω0 = 1, we find that each one is improbable at the less than 10-2 level. These observations, along with the fact that these luminosities and temperatures of the high-z clusters all agree with the low-z LX-TX relation, argue strongly that Ω0 < 1. Otherwise, the initial perturbations must be non-Gaussian, if these clusters' temperatures do indeed reflect their gravitational potentials.
- Subject headings
cosmology: observations; dark matter; galaxies: clusters: individual (MS 1054–0321); galaxies: interactions; intergalactic medium; X-rays: galaxies
- Dates
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Issue 2 (1998 August 1)
Received 1997 July 10, accepted for publication 1998 March 6
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A Very Hot High-Redshift Cluster of Galaxies: More Trouble for Ω0 = 1
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