Two large-scale sloshing cold fronts in the outskirts of the galaxy cluster Abell 3558
Abstract
Previous studies of the massive nearby galaxy cluster Abell 3558 reported a cold front around the cluster core, which is attributed to the sloshing of the core as it responds to the gravitational disturbance created by a past minor merger. Here, using XMM-Newton mosaic, we report the detection of two rare large-scale sloshing cold fronts far outside the cooling radius of Abell 3558. One of the detected cold fronts is located 600 kpc from the cluster core to the south-east, while the other is located 1.2 Mpc from the cluster core to the north-west. The latter cold front is one of the most distant cold fronts ever observed in a galaxy cluster. Our findings are in agreement with previous studies that sloshing can extend well beyond the cooling radius, on scales exceeding half the virial radius, suggesting that sloshing is a cluster-wide phenomenon and may affect the cluster's global properties.
- Publication:
-
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- November 2023
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnrasl/slad129
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2308.16222
- Bibcode:
- 2023MNRAS.526L.124M
- Keywords:
-
- galaxies: clusters: individual: Abell 3558;
- galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium;
- X-rays: galaxies: clusters;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters