Structure of clusters with bimodal distribution of galaxy line-of-sight velocities III: A1831 |
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Authors: | A I Kopylov F G Kopylova |
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Institution: | 1.Special Astrophysical Observatory,Russian Academy of Sciences,Nizhnii Arkhyz,Russia |
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Abstract: | We study the A1831 cluster within the framework of our program of the investigation of galaxy clusters with bimodal velocity
distributions (i.e., clusters where the velocities of subsystems differ by more than Δ
cz
∼ 3000 km/s).We identify two subsystems in this cluster: A1831A (cz = 18970 km/s) and A1831B (cz = 22629 km/s) and directly estimate the distances to these subsystems using three methods applied to early-type galaxies:
the Kormendy relation, the photometric plane, and the fundamental plane. To this end, we use the results of our observations
made with the 1-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the data adopted
from the SDSS DR6 catalog. We confirmed at a 99% confidence level that (1) the two subsystems are located at different distances,
which are close to their Hubble distances, and (2) the two subsystems are located behind one another along the line of sight
and are not gravitationally bound to each other. Both clusters have a complex internal structure, which makes it difficult
to determine their dynamical parameters. Our estimates for the velocity dispersions and masses of the two clusters: 480 km/s
and 1.9 × 1014
M
⊙ for A1831A, 952 km/s and 1.4 × 1015
M
⊙ for A1831B should be views as upper limits. At least three spatially and kinematically distinct groups of galaxies can be
identified in the foreground cluster A1831A, and this fact is indicative of its incomplete dynamical relaxation. Neither can
we rule out the possibility of a random projection. The estimate of the mass of the main cluster A1831B based on the dispersion
of the line-of-sight velocities of galaxies is two-to-three times greater than the independent mass estimates based on the
total K-band luminosity, temperature, and luminosity of the X-ray gas of the cluster. This fact, combined with the peculiarities
of its kinematical structure, leads us to conclude that the cluster is in a dynamically active state: galaxies and groups
of galaxies with large line-of-sight velocities relative to the center of the cluster accrete onto the virialized nucleus
of the cluster (possibly, along the filament directed close to the line of sight). |
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