XMM-Newton studies of a massive cluster of galaxies: RXCJ2228.6+2036

TL;DR

This study analyzes the X-ray properties of the massive galaxy cluster RXCJ2228.6+2036 using XMM-Newton data, deriving its temperature, mass, and gas fraction, and comparing results with SZ observations and scaling relations.

Contribution

First detailed X-ray analysis of the massive cluster RXCJ2228.6+2036, including mass modeling, cooling flow measurement, and comparison with SZ data and scaling relations.

Findings

Cluster temperature is approximately 8.92 keV.

Total mass within r500 is about 1.19 x 10^15 solar masses.

X-ray and SZ results are in remarkable agreement.

Abstract

We present the X-ray properties of a massive cluster of galaxies (RXCJ2228.6+2036 at $z=0.421$) using {\it XMM-Newton} data. The X-ray mass modeling is based on the temperature and density distributions of the intracluster medium derived using a deprojection method. We found that RXCJ2228.6+2036 is a hot cluster ($T_{500}=8.92^{+1.78}_{-1.32}$ keV) showing a cooling flow rate of $12.0^{+56.0}_{-12.0}$ M$_{\odot}$yr$^{-1}$ based on spectral fitting within the cooling flow radius ($r_{cool}=147\pm10$ kpc). The total cluster mass is $M_{500}=(1.19\pm0.35)\times10^{15}$ M$_{\odot}$ and the mean gas mass fraction is $f_{gas}=0.165\pm0.045$ at $r_{500}=1.61\pm0.16$ Mpc. We discussed the PSF-correction effect on the spectral analysis and found that for the annular width we chose the PSF-corrected temperatures are consistent with those without PSF-correction. We observed a remarkable agreement between X-ray and SZ results, which is of prime importance for the future SZ survey. RXCJ2228.6+2036 obeys the empirical scaling relations found in general massive galaxy clusters (e.g. $S$--$T$, $M$--$T$, $L$--$T$ and $M$--$Y$) after accounting for self-similar evolution.