Abell 2744

Abell 2744

Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass. The gas (around 20 percent) is so hot that it shines only in X-rays (coloured red in this image). The distribution of invisible dark matter (making up around 75 percent of the cluster's mass) is coloured here in blue.
Observation data (Epoch J2000)
Constellation(s) Sculptor
Right ascension 00h 14m 19.51s [1]
Declination −30° 23′ 19.18″ [1]
Richness class 3[2]
Bautz-Morgan classification III[2]
Redshift 0.30800[3]
Distance
(co-moving)		 1,221 Mpc (3,982 Mly) h−1
0.705 [3]
X-ray flux (5.805 ± 4.7%)×10−13 erg s−1 cm−2 (0.1—2.4 keV) [3]
Other designations
Pandora's Cluster
See also: Galaxy groups, Galaxy clusters, List of galaxy clusters

Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, is a giant galaxy cluster resulting from the simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters that took place over a span of 350 million years.[1] The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass.[1] The gas (around 20 percent) is so hot that it shines only in X-rays.[1] Dark matter makes up around 75 percent of the cluster's mass.[1]

This cluster also shows a radio halo along with several other Abell clusters. It has a strong central halo, along with an extended tail, which could either be relic radiation, or an extension of the central halo.[4]

“We nicknamed it ‘Pandora's Cluster’ because so many different and strange phenomena were unleashed by the collision.”[5]

Gallery

  1. ^ "Swimming in Sculptor". Retrieved 7 March 2016. 
  2. ^ "Hubble sees ghost light from dead galaxies in galaxy cluster Abell 2744". www.spacetelescope.org. ESA/Hubble. Retrieved 4 November 2014. 
  3. ^ Clavin, Whitney; Jenkins, Ann; Villard, Ray (7 January 2014). "NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Probe Faraway Galaxies". NASA. Retrieved 8 January 2014. 
  4. ^ Chou, Felecia; Weaver, Donna (16 October 2014). "RELEASE 14-283 - NASA's Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic Magnifying Glass". NASA. Retrieved 17 October 2014. 

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Pandora's Cluster – Clash of the Titans". NASA.
  2. 1 2 Abell, George O.; Corwin, Harold G., Jr.; Olowin, Ronald P. (May 1989). "A catalog of rich clusters of galaxies" (PDF). Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 70 (May 1989): 1–138. Bibcode:1989ApJS...70....1A. doi:10.1086/191333. ISSN 0067-0049. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 "NED results for object ABELL 2744". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). Retrieved 17 March 2012.
  4. ↑ Govoni, F.; Ensslin, T. A.; Feretti, L.; Giovannini, G. (23 January 2001). "A Comparison of Radio and X-Ray Morphologies of Four Clusters of Galaxies Containing Radio Halos". arXiv:astro-ph/0101418Freely accessible.
  5. ↑ Renato Dupke quoted at Pandora's Cluster - a galactic crash investigation Press release of 22 June 2011

External links

Coordinates: 00h 14m 19.51s, −30° 23′ 19.18″


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