RXCJ1111.6+4050 galaxy cluster: the observational evidence of a transitional fossil group

Abstract

We present a detailed kinematical and dynamical study of the galaxy cluster RXCJ1111.6+4050 (RXCJ1111), at z = 0.0756 using 104 new spectroscopic redshifts of galaxies observed at the TNG 3.5m telescope and SDSS DR16 public archive. Our analysis is performed in a multiwavelength context in order to study and compare mainly optical and X-ray properties using XMM-Newton data. We find that RXCJ1111 is a galaxy cluster showing a velocity distribution with clear deviations from Gaussianity, that we are able to explain by the presence of a substructure within the cluster. The two cluster components show velocity dispersions of $644\pm 56$ km/s and $410\pm 123$ km/s, which yield dynamical masses of M${}_{200}$=$1.9\pm 0.4\times 10^{14}$ M${}_{\odot }$ and $0.6\pm 0.4\times 10^{14}$ M${}_{\odot }$ for the main system and substructure, respectively. RXCJ1111 presents an elongation in the North-South direction and a gradient of 250-350 km/s/Mpc in the velocity field, suggest that the merger axis between the main system and substructure is slightly tilted with respect to the line-of-sight. The substructure is characterized by a magnitude gap $\Delta m_{12}\ge 1.8$, so it fits the "fossil-like" definition of a galaxy group. Mass estimates derived from X-ray and optical are in good agreement when two galaxy components are considered separately. We propose a 3D merging model and find that the fossil group is in an early phase of collision with the RXCJ1111 main cluster and almost aligned with the line-of-sight. This merging model would explain the slight increase found in the T${}_X$ with respect to what we would expect for relaxed clusters. Due to the presence of several brightest galaxies, after this collision, the substructure would presumably lose its fossil condition. Therefore, RXCJ1111 represents the observational evidence that the fossil stage of a system can be temporary and transitional.

16 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables and 1 appendix

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