Another X-ray-Discovered Poor Cluster of Galaxies Associated with CL 0016+16

Abstract

We report optical spectroscopic observations of RX J0018.8+1602, a ROSAT X-ray source proposed to be an intermediate redshift cluster of galaxies. Our observations confirm the identification of RX J0018.8+1602 and provide measurements of its mean radial velocity (z=0.5406 +/- 0.0006) and velocity dispersion (sigma_p = 200 [+110, -80] km/s). This is the second poor cluster that has been found to be a companion to CL 0016+16 (z=0.5455), the other one being RX J0018.3+1618 (z=0.5506). The 0.2-2 keV band source-frame X-ray luminosity summed over both companion clusters is 5E44 ergs/s, which is a significant fraction, ~23%, of the X-ray luminosity of the main cluster. The companions are located at angular distances of 10 arcmin to 25 arcmin (minimum physical scales of 5 Mpc to 12 Mpc) from CL 0016+16 and we propose that they represent a new large-scale component of the X-ray emission from clusters of galaxies. Similar low X-ray luminosity poor clusters surrounding nearby Abell clusters can explain the excess power observed in the angular cross-correlation function between Abell clusters and the X-ray background on inferred physical scales of 14--20 Mpc (Soltan et al. 1996).

16 pages, including 3 postscript figs, LaTeX. To appear in ApJ

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