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Title:
Sound waves in the intracluster medium of the Centaurus cluster
Authors:
Sanders, J. S.; Fabian, A. C.
Affiliation:
AA(Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA; ), AB(Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA; )
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 390, Issue 1, pp. L93-L97. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
10/2008
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
galaxies: clusters: individual: Centaurus cluster, cooling flows, intergalactic medium, X-rays: galaxies
DOI:
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00549.x
Bibliographic Code:
2008MNRAS.390L..93S

Abstract

We report the discovery of ripple-like X-ray surface brightness oscillations in the core of the Centaurus cluster of galaxies, found with 200 ks of Chandra observations. The features are between 3 and 5 per cent variations in surface brightness with a wavelength of around 9 kpc. If, as has been conjectured for the Perseus cluster, these are sound waves generated by the repetitive inflation of central radio bubbles, they represent around 5 × 1042ergs-1 of spherical sound wave power at a radius of 30 kpc. The period of the waves would be 107 yr. If their power is dissipated in the core of the cluster, it would balance much of the radiative cooling by X-ray emission, which is around 1.3 × 1043ergs-1 within the inner 30 kpc. The power of the sound waves would be a factor of 4 smaller that the heating power of the central radio bubbles, which means that energy is converted into sound waves efficiently.
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