Serendipitous XMM-Newton discovery of a cluster of galaxies at z=0.28
Abstract
We report the discovery of a galaxy cluster serendipitously detected as an extended X-ray source in an offset observation of the group NGC 5044. The cluster redshift, z=0.281, determined from the optical spectrum of the brightest cluster galaxy, agrees with that inferred from the X-ray spectrum using the Fe K alpha complex of the hot ICM (z=0.27 +/- 0.01). Based on the 50 ks XMM observation, we find that within a radius of 383 kpc the cluster has an unabsorbed X-ray flux, fX (0.5-2 keV) = 3.34 (+0.08, -0.13) x 10-13 erg/cm2/s, a bolometric X-ray luminosity, LX = 2.21 (+0.34, -0.19) x 1044 erg/s, kT = 3.57 +/- 0.12 keV, and metallicity, 0.60 +/- 0.09 solar. The cluster obeys the scaling relations for LX and T observed at intermediate redshift. The mass derived from an isothermal NFW model fit is, Mvir = 3.89 +/- 0.35 x 1014 solar masses, with a concentration parameter, c = 6.7 +/- 0.4, consistent with the range of values expected in the concordance cosmological model for relaxed clusters. The optical properties suggest this could be a ``fossil cluster''.
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