X-ray and lensing results on the cluster around the powerful radio galaxy 4C+55.16

Abstract

We present results from ASCA and ROSAT HRI observations of the powerful radio galaxy 4C+55.16 at redshift 0.24. Extended soft X-ray emission is imaged by the ROSAT HRI. The X-ray brightness profile is sharply peaked on the radio galaxy, characteristic of a strong cooling flow. The X-ray spectrum obtained from ASCA is consistent with multi-phase intracluster gas. There is evidence for an absorbed cool component as well as ambient cluster medium in the ASCA spectrum. A spectral fit, taking a cooling-flow component into account, gives a temperature of kT=5.4(+1.4/-0.9) keV, metal abundance 0.5(+/-0.1)Zsun, excess absorption on the cool component, nH=4.9(+3.4/-1.3)E+21 cm-2, and an absorption-corrected bolometric luminosity of 2.2E+45 erg/s (H0=50km/s/Mpc, q0=0.5). The mass deposition rate is estimated to be about 1100 Msun/yr from the spectral analysis, in good agreement with that derived from imaging analysis of the ROSAT data when corrected for absorption. We tentatively identify a blue feature, seen about 15 arcsec from the centre of the radio galaxy in a published optical image, as a gravitationally-lensed arc. The inferred lensing mass is consistent with the gravitational mass derived from the X-ray data. The best-estimate of the redshift of the lensed object is 1.5(>0.7). All the observed properties suggest that the environment of 4C+55.16 is similar to known massive cooling flow clusters. This is the first massive cooling flow to be found around a powerful, radio source with a compact, GHz-peaked spectrum core.

6 pages, 4 Postscript figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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