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Kinematic Substructures in the Coma Cluster Core as traced by Intracluster Planetary Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2006

Magda Arnaboldi
Affiliation:
ESO & INAF – Obs Turin email: [email protected]
Ortwin Gerhard
Affiliation:
MPE – Garching
Kenneth C. Freeman
Affiliation:
RSAA Canberra
Nobunari Kashikawa
Affiliation:
NAOJ Tokyo
Sadanori Okamura
Affiliation:
Dpt. of Astron. Tokyo
Naoki Yasuda
Affiliation:
Inst. Cosm. Ray Res. Tokyo
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Abstract

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The Coma cluster is the richest and most compact of the nearby clusters, yet there is growing evidence that its formation is still on-going. A sensitive probe of this evolution is the dynamics of intracluster stars, which are unbound from galaxies while the cluster forms, according to cosmological simulations. With a new multi-slit imaging spectroscopy technique pioneered at the 8.2 m Subaru telescope and FOCAS, we can now detect and measure the line-of-sight velocities of the intracluster planetary nebulae which are associated with the diffuse stellar population of stars, at 100 Mpc distance. We detect significant velocity substructures within a 6 arcmin diameter field, centred on the Coma X-ray cluster emission. One substructure is present at $\sim $5000 km s$^{-1}$, probably from infall of a galaxy group, while the main intracluster stellar component moves at $\sim $6500 km s$^{-1}$. Hence the ICPNs associated with the diffuse light at the position of the MSIS field are not bound to the nearby cD galaxy NGC 4874, whose radial velocity is $\sim $700 km s$^{-1}$ higher.

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© 2006 International Astronomical Union