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Growth and disruption in the Lyra complex

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Pith's one-line read The Southern Galaxy once anchored a galaxy group that is now being torn apart as it falls into the Lyra cluster.

desk verdict Solid X-ray case study of a complex cluster system; the corona detection is convincing, but the infalling-galaxy stripping claim and ~3000 km/s infall velocity need softer framing or a significance test. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.02276 v2 pith:ISER2GJN submitted 2019-08-06 astro-ph.CO astro-ph.GA

S. Clavico , S. De Grandi , S. Ghizzardi , M. Rossetti , S. Molendi , F. Gastaldello , M. Girardi , W. Boschin
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A. Botteon R. Cassano M. Bruggen G. Brunetti D. Dallacasa D. Eckert S. Ettori M. Gaspari M. Sereno T. Shimwell R. J. van Weeren
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The reading

The paper uses a 240 ks X-ray mosaic of the nearby Lyra complex at redshift z≈0.067 to reconstruct how its structures are growing and breaking apart. It argues that the main cluster RXC J1825.3+3026 is in the late stages of a merger, that its companion CIZA J1824.1+3029 is a relaxed cluster with a cool core still in a pre-merger state, and that a smaller galaxy group is currently falling into the main cluster and being disrupted. The load-bearing piece of evidence is the Southern Galaxy, a bright elliptical whose compact, thermally emitting gas corona (smaller than about 13 kpc, about 1 keV, about half solar metallicity) marks it as the former center of that group. Two of three high-velocity galaxies aligned between the main cluster and the Southern Galaxy show X-ray excesses interpreted as ram-pressure-stripped gas, and the inferred infall velocities are about 3,000 km/s. If this reading is right, the Lyra complex offers a live view of group-scale accretion, stripping, and virialization in the local Universe.

What carries the argument

The mechanism that carries the argument is the compact X-ray corona of the Southern Galaxy: a point-like, thermally emitting source, unresolved and therefore smaller than about 12 to 13 kpc, whose spectrum shows iron L-shell lines, a temperature near 1.1 keV, and an abundance near 0.5 solar. Because the surrounding gas is hotter and less metal-rich, the corona is interpreted as gas that belonged to the galaxy's former group and has survived ram-pressure stripping. The companion machinery is the comparison between the observed X-ray mosaic and a surface-brightness model of the two clusters: residual and unsharp-masked images reveal the diffuse southwest excess and the offset X-ray excesses around the infalling galaxies, while the infall velocity estimate uses $v_i = \Delta v/(1+z)$ on redshift differences, supported by the lack of elongation of the excesses along the presumed direction of motion.

What would settle it

A high-resolution X-ray observation that resolves the Southern Galaxy source would settle the central claim: if the compact source shows variability or a power-law spectrum, it is an active nucleus rather than a corona, and the group-disruption reading loses its anchor; alternatively, if the gas tails around the high-velocity galaxies are found to be strongly curved or offset perpendicular to the line of sight, the assumption of negligible plane-of-sky motion would fail.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is that the Southern Galaxy, the brightest elliptical in the southwest of the Lyra complex, hosts an X-ray-emitting gaseous corona that is unresolved by the observations (extent less than about 13 kpc), thermally bright at about 1 keV, and metal-rich at about 0.5 solar abundance, embedded in diffuse gas at roughly 2 keV. The paper reads this corona as the surviving remnant of the hot atmosphere of a group center: the Southern Galaxy was very likely the central galaxy of a group that has now been almost completely destroyed by its interaction with RXC J1825.3+3026. Supporting this picture, the diffuse X-ray excess southwest of the main cluster is patchy and irregular, consistent with group gas being stripped and/or cluster gas displaced by the group's passage, and two of three high-velocity galaxies aligned between the main cluster and the Southern Galaxy show X-ray excesses offset in the same direction, one of them at a temperature of $2.0^{+0.5}_{-0.3}$ keV against roughly 4 keV for the surrounding intracluster gas. The paper infers that these galaxies are currently falling onto RXC J1825 at infall velocities of about 2,800 to 3,200 km/s, with the motion dominated by the line of sight.

Load-bearing premise

The scenario rests on the compact X-ray source at the Southern Galaxy being hot coronal gas rather than an active nucleus, and on the redshift gaps behind the roughly 3,000 km/s infall velocities being almost purely line-of-sight motion.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the scenario holds, the Lyra complex is a single snapshot of cluster growth at three stages: a late-merger main cluster, a relaxed companion still in a pre-merger phase, and a group being accreted and stripped.
  • The Southern Galaxy's corona implies that some group-center gas can survive ram-pressure stripping and remain thermally isolated, which requires suppressed thermal conduction.
  • The stripped X-ray excesses around the high-velocity galaxies and their roughly 3,000 km/s line-of-sight infall velocities imply that ram-pressure stripping is acting on galaxies as they fall into RXC J1825.3+3026.
  • The lack of any X-ray bridge between RXC J1825.3+3026 and CIZA J1824.1+3029 implies the pair is pre-merger, with a future merger mass ratio of roughly 1:2.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Beyond the paper: if the stripped gas around the two high-velocity galaxies is imaged at higher angular resolution, the orientation of the tails could be compared with the infall direction; tail morphology is a direct test of the claim that plane-of-sky motion is much smaller than line-of-sight infall.
  • Beyond the paper: the corona-versus-active-nucleus question is testable with a pointed observation that resolves the Southern Galaxy source; variability or a power-law spectrum would point to an active nucleus and would undo the group-disruption reading.
  • Beyond the paper: the 1:2 cluster pair predicted to merge could be compared with cosmological simulations of group infall to see whether the observed stripped-corona stage is a common or rare phase in cluster assembly.
  • Beyond the paper: deeper X-ray exposures of the southwest excess could map metal abundances to distinguish stripped group gas, which should be metal-rich, from displaced cluster gas, which should be less enriched; the current data cannot make that distinction.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents an XMM-Newton mosaic analysis (240 ks, five cleaned pointings) of the Lyra complex at z=0.067, comprising the clusters RXCJ1825 and CIZAJ1824 and surrounding structures. The authors conclude that RXCJ1825 is in a late/post-merger phase, based on its east-west elongation, high core temperatures, absence of a cool core, entropy and pressure maps, and the recently discovered radio halo; that CIZAJ1824 is a relaxed cool-core cluster, based on its regular surface brightness, temperature, abundance, and entropy profiles; and that the pair is in a pre-merger state with a mass ratio of about 1:2, since no X-ray bridge is detected between them. Southwest of RXCJ1825 they identify a patchy diffuse excess and a point-like source at the Southern Galaxy (SG) with a thermal spectrum (kT~1 keV, Z~0.5 solar, extent <13 kpc), interpreted as a galactic corona and as the remnant of a largely disrupted infalling group. In addition, they report that two of three high-velocity galaxies aligned between RXCJ1825 and the SG show X-ray excesses, one with a spectroscopically cooler temperature, and they derive infall velocities of about 3000 km/s for these objects. The paper frames the system as a live example of group accretion and ram-pressure stripping during cluster virialization.

Significance. If the main conclusions hold, this is a valuable case study of hierarchical assembly in the local Universe, combining X-ray imaging, thermodynamic mapping, optical spectroscopy from a companion paper, and a LOFAR radio halo detection. The data reduction is careful and reproducible in style: background components are modeled in detail, soft-proton contamination is screened, the Galactic NH variation is cross-checked against IRAS dust maps, and 1-sigma errors are quoted throughout. The two-cluster picture (relaxed cool-core CIZAJ1824 versus merging RXCJ1825) is well supported by independent optical and radio data, and the SG corona, if confirmed, would be a significant detection with implications for thermal conduction and ram-pressure stripping. The weakest part is the quantitative infall/stripping claim for the high-velocity galaxies, which currently rests on visual excess identification and a simplified geometric interpretation of redshift offsets; this part needs additional scrutiny before the abstract's 'infall velocity of ~3000 km/s' can be taken at face value.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 4.5, Fig. 18] The claim that X-ray excesses are associated with two of the three high-velocity galaxies (ID143 and ID113) is based on visual inspection of an unsharp-mask image in a region that already contains significant patchy diffuse emission (boxes A/B in Fig. 7). No control sample, detection threshold, or false-positive rate is provided, so the reported 2-of-3 detection rate is not statistically established. The excesses could plausibly be part of the large-scale diffuse structure between RXCJ1825 and the SG rather than gas directly associated with the galaxies. I request a quantitative significance assessment, for example surface brightness profiles in small apertures around each galaxy relative to the local background, together with an estimate of how many random positions in the same field would produce a comparable excess.
  2. [Section 4.5, infall velocities] The infall velocities vi = Delta v / (1+z), quoted as 2942±76, 3196±125, 2891±48, and 2830±73 km/s, assume that the full redshift difference between the high-velocity galaxies and RXCJ1825 is a line-of-sight infall velocity. The authors argue from the lack of elongation of the excesses that the plane-of-sky component is small, but no quantitative bound is derived, and possible orbital motion, Hubble flow, or projection contributions are not modeled. The abstract's statement that the galaxies are 'currently falling onto the main cluster at an infall velocity of ~3000 km/s' is therefore stronger than the data currently support. I recommend either softening the claim to line-of-sight velocity offsets consistent with infall, or adding a dynamical test (e.g., using Girardi et al.'s member probabilities and a bound-infall criterion) to justify the physical interpretation.
  3. [Sections 3.4 and 4.4 (Southern Galaxy)] The interpretation of the point-like X-ray source at the SG as a galactic corona, rather than a compact nuclear source, is important for the group-disruption scenario. The thermal fit with the Fe L-shell blend and kT~1 keV is persuasive, but the analysis does not explicitly fit an absorbed power-law or a combined thermal plus power-law model, and no upper limit on a non-thermal (AGN) component is quoted. Adding such a test would make the corona identification robust and would further support the claim that the SG was the central galaxy of a disrupted group.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 4.3] The text says 'A simple bimodal dynamical model shows that CIZAJ1825 is most likely located in front of RXCJ1825'; this should read CIZAJ1824, both here and wherever the companion cluster is meant.
  2. [Figure 4 caption] In the left panel caption, the cross is labeled as the X-ray centroid of 'RXCJ1824'; this appears to be a typo for RXCJ1825.
  3. [Key words (page 1)] The key words list 'RXC J1825.3+3016', which should be 'RXC J1825.3+3026'.
  4. [Section 3.3.1] The approximation V proportional to A^(3/2) is stated and described as crude, but its systematic effect on the reported pressure, entropy, and cooling-time values is not propagated or quantified; a brief statement in the text or figure captions that these maps are order-of-magnitude estimates would help the reader.
  5. [Section 4.5] The 1-sigma uncertainties on the infall velocities reflect only redshift measurement errors; the systematic uncertainty from the assumed geometry (e.g., unknown projection angle and possible orbital component) should be stated explicitly so that the values are not read as fully model-independent.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central X-ray measurements are independent fits to XMM-Newton data, and the optical/radio inputs come from separate observations, not from the quantities the paper claims to derive.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained against external data. The SG corona is inferred from a direct spectral fit (Region 2, kT=1.21±0.04 keV with an Fe L blend; the two-component fit returns kT=1.12±0.05 keV and Z=0.54±0.21) and from a PSF comparison showing an unresolved source smaller than ~12-13 kpc; neither quantity is defined in terms of the group-disruption scenario. The diffuse SW excess is a statistically significant residual after subtracting single-beta models fit to the azimuthal profiles, not a renaming of the model inputs. The high-velocity galaxies and their redshifts come from the independent optical spectroscopy of Girardi et al. (2019), and the radio halo from Botteon et al. (2019); although these are companion papers with overlapping authors, they are independent data sets and are not outputs of the X-ray fits. The infall velocities, vi = Δv/(1+z), are direct conversions of measured redshift differences; the assumption that these are pure line-of-sight infall is an interpretive caveat, not a circular reduction. The paper explicitly acknowledges the limits of its interpretation: "We therefore cannot decipher the origin of this gas with our data" and "As part of this hypothesis, the difference in measured redshift between the galaxies and RXCJ can be taken as a reasonable estimate of the infall velocities." No equation in the paper reduces a predicted quantity to a fitted parameter by construction, and no uniqueness theorem or ansatz is imported from the authors' prior work in a load-bearing way.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No load-bearing fitted parameters are introduced. The beta-model parameters in Table 2 are fitted for residual imaging only, and the free NH in spectral fits is cross-checked against IRAS and Willingale et al. (2013). The main assumptions are hydrostatic equilibrium, a power-law mass extrapolation, a crude volume approximation for the maps, and the line-of-sight infall interpretation of redshift differences. No new particles, forces, or conserved quantities are postulated; the corona is an existing observational class.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption LambdaCDM cosmology with H0=70 km/s/Mpc, Omega_m=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0.7.
    Assumed throughout for distances, radii, and masses; standard in the field and stated in the introduction.
  • domain assumption Hydrostatic equilibrium for the ICM when deriving total masses.
    Used in Sect. 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 to convert temperature and density profiles into M500 and M200. The main cluster is merging, so HSE may not hold exactly; the authors cross-check M200 against the SZ-based value of Ettori et al. (2019) and find agreement within 1 sigma.
  • domain assumption Power-law extrapolation of the mass profile outside the outermost bin.
    Stated in Sect. 3.2.1: by assuming a power-law behaviour for the mass in the outskirts to extrapolate the mass profile at larger radii, used to obtain M500 and M200.
  • ad hoc to paper Emission volume scales as V proportional to A^{3/2} for the thermodynamic maps.
    Stated in Sect. 3.3.1 as a rather crude way of estimating physical quantities, adequate for order-of-magnitude values given the non-spherical gas distribution.
  • domain assumption Redshift differences of the high-velocity galaxies relative to RXCJ1825 are entirely due to line-of-sight infall velocity.
    In Sect. 4.5 the authors compute infall velocities as vi = Delta v / (1+z), arguing the lack of X-ray excess elongation implies a small plane-of-sky velocity. If a significant part of the velocity difference is orbital or non-infall motion, the about 3000 km/s infall claim weakens.

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Nearby clusters of galaxies, z<0.1, are cosmic structures still under formation. Understanding the thermodynamic properties of merging clusters can provide crucial information on how they grow in the local universe. A detailed study of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) properties of un-relaxed systems is essential to understand the fate of in-falling structures and, more generally, the virialization process. We analyzed a mosaic of XMM-Newton observations (240 ks) of the Lyra system (z=0.067) that shows a complex dynamical state. We find the main cluster RXC J1825.3+3026 to be in a late merger phase, whereas its companion CIZA J1824.1+3029 is a relaxed cool-core cluster. We estimate a mass ratio of ~1:2 for the pair. No diffuse X-ray emission is found in the region between them, indicating that these clusters are in a pre-merger phase. We found evidence of a galaxy group infalling on RXC J1825.3+3026 in an advanced state of disruption. The Southern Galaxy, one of the brightest galaxies in the Lyra complex, was very likely at the center of the infalling group. This galaxy has a gaseous corona indicating that it was able to retain some of its gas after the ram-pressure stripping of the intra-group medium. In this scenario the diffuse emission excess observed southwest of RXC J1825.3+3026 could be due to gas once belonging to the group and/or to cluster ICM dislocated by the passage of the group. Finally, we identified three high-velocity galaxies aligned between RXC J1825.3+3026 and the SG, two of these showing evidence of gas stripped from them during infall. We estimate them to be currently falling onto the main cluster at an infall velocity of ~ 3000 km/s. Our study of the Lyra complex provides important clues about the processes presiding over the virialization of massive clusters in the local Universe.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. XMM-Newton mosaic image of the Lyra cluster complex in units of counts pixel−1 in the [0.7–1.2] keV energy band. The cluster RXCJ1825 is in the center of the image with the green and magenta circles representing the location of its R500 and R200, respectively. The cluster CIZAJ1824 is west of RXCJ1825, whereas the white circle is centered on the Southern Galaxy (SG). The image is corrected for the particle backgroun… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Top panel: Elliptical sectors (60 degrees wide) used for the extraction of surface brightness profiles, overplotted on the XMM-Newton mosaic image ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Left panel: Surface brightness model that includes both elliptical single β-models of RXCJ1825 and CIZAJ1824 clusters. Right panel: Residual image after subtracting the model from the X-ray image. Blue small ellipses show the position of the two BCGs of RXCJ1825, labeled BCG-W and BGC-E, and the black cross is the X-ray centroid of the cluster. The white and blue crosses show the position of the BCG of CIZAJ1825, BC… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Left panel: Unsharp-mask image using a 20σ and a 800σ Gaussian to enlighten large-scale, low-surface brightness features. Point-like sources were removed. Crosses show the position of the X-ray centroid of RXCJ1824 (magenta), BCG-CC (white), and SG (cyan). Right panel:…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Surface brightness profiles of RXCJ1825 (in blue) extracted in sectors of 60 deg starting from the R.A. axis and moving counterclockwise. Point-like sources were removed from the image. The red lines show the model profiles extracted in the same sectors as in [PITH_FU…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: We found that the surface brightness profile be [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png]
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Regions used for the extractions of the surface brightness profiles shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png]
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Surface brightness profiles extracted from the boxes shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png]
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: XMM-Newton surface brightness profile of the SG (black crosses) as compared to the profile of the nearby comparison point source (red crosses). The red continuous profile shows the surface brightness profile of the point source rescaled to match the intensity of the SG…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Temperature (upper panel) and metal abundance (mid￾dle panel) profiles of RXCJ1825. Black points show the results from the standard analysis with NH fixed to the LAB value and energy band [0.5-10.] keV. Red points show the results with NH left free to vary in the fit (…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Radial temperature (upper panel) and metal abundance (middle panel) profiles of CIZAJ1824. Black points show the re￾sults from the standard analysis with NH fixed to the LAB value and energy band [0.5-10.] keV and red points show the results with NH left free to vary …
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Left panel: Residual map of the central regions of RXCJ1825. The regions chosen to perform the spectral analysis, selected using a S/N > 20 with source-to-background ratio I > 0.6 (Leccardi & Molendi 2008), are shown in white. Right panel: Pan-STARRs r-band image of t…
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Temperature (keV), pressure (keV cm−3 ), entropy (keV cm2 ), and cooling time (Gyr) maps of the center of RXCJ1825. For the uncertainties on the physical quantities see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_12.png]
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Temperature (keV), pressure (keV cm−3 ), entropy (keV cm2 ), and cooling time (Gyr) shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_13.png]
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Left panel: Regions chosen to perform the spectral analysis around the SG and along the emission bridge towards RXCJ1825. Middle panel: Temperature map in keV. The yellow, cyan, and white crosses are the positions of the SG, the X-ray centroid of RXCJ1825, and the BCG…
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Spectrum of Region 2 in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_15.png]
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Pan-STARRs r-band image of RXCJ1825 and CIZAJ1824 complex with the contour levels of the XMM X-ray emission superimposed. The red circle is an unidentified extended source discussed in Sect.4.3. In the figure, north is at the top and east to the left. Intriguingly, we…
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Pan-STARRs r-band image of the extended X-ray source SW of CIZAJ1824 (red circle in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_17.png]
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Unsharp-mask image of the Lyra complex with the high-velocity galaxies selected by Girardi et al. (2019) shown as black crosses (ID143, ID113, and ID074 in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_18.png]
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Surface brightness profile and best-fit β-model (blue line) of RXCJ1825 (left panel) and CIZAJ1824 (right panel). The profiles are centered on the cluster centroid, the elliptical annuli have ellipticity and P.A. of 0.25 and 165 deg for RXCJ1825, and 0.24 and 94 deg f…

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