Chandra observation of Abell 1689: New determination of mass distribution and comparison to lensing measurements

Abstract

We present a new estimate of the projected X-ray mass of Abell 1689 observed with Chandra, in an attempt to clarify the issue of whether or not there exists a discrepancy between X-ray and gravitational lensing mass estimates claimed in previous investigations based on {\it Einstein}, {\it ROSAT} and {\it ASCA} observations. A particular attention is paid to examining if there is an offset between X-ray centroid and central dominant cD galaxy, which may be an indicator of the presence of local dynamical activities of intracluster gas in the central core and therefore, explain the discrepancy between X-ray and lensing mass estimates, if any. The unprecedentedly high spatial resolution achieved by Chandra allows us to precisely localize the X-ray centroid of Abell 1689, which appears to coincide perfectly with the central cD galaxy. This fact, along with the symmetry and regularity of the X-ray surface brightness and temperature distributions, suggests that Abell 1689 is a fully-relaxed cluster. We thus employ hydrostatic equilibrium hypothesis to determine the projected mass profile of Abell 1689, and compare it with the results obtained by different lensing techniques available in the literature. Our analysis confirms the existance of the discrepancy of a factor of $\sim 2$ between X-ray and lensing mass estimates in the central region of $r\approx 0.2$ Mpc, although the two methods yield essentially consistent result on large radii. If the perfect coincidence between the X-ray center and the cD galaxy of Abell 1689 detected by Chandra observation is not a projection effect, the central mass discrepancy between X-ray and lensing measurements may pose a challenge to our conventional understanding of dynamical evolution of the intracluster gas in the central regions of clusters.

26 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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