Butcher & Oemler Cluster A2111: A Head-on Merger at z = 0.23
arXiv:astro-ph/9702035 · doi:10.1093/mnras/288.3.702
Abstract
We present ROSAT PSPC and HRI observations of A2111, the richest galaxy cluster photometrically surveyed by Butcher & Oemler (1984). The cluster contains a distinct comet-shaped X-ray subcomponent, which appears hotter than the rest of the cluster. The galaxy and X-ray surface brightness distributions of the cluster show a similarly elongated morphology. These results suggest that the cluster is undergoing a head-on subcluster merger. This merger may also be responsible for the high fraction of gas-rich blue galaxies observed in the cluster. We have further detected a poor cluster along the merging axis and at a projected distance of about 5 Mpc from A2111.
To be published in MNRAS, 16 pages, plus 13 figures in the GIF or jpeg format (uuencoded). Black & white postscript files of the figures are available at http://www.astro.nwu.edu/astro/wqd/paper/a2111/
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