Discovery of a Powerful >10 61 erg AGN Outburst in the Distant Galaxy Cluster SPT-CLJ0528-5300
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Calzadilla, Michael S
McDonald, Michael A.
Bayliss, Matthew B
Benson, Bradford A
Bleem, Lindsey E
Brodwin, Mark
Edge, Alastair C
Floyd, Benjamin
Gupta, Nikhel
Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie
Date Issued
2019
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Astrophysical Journal Letters
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American Astronomical Society
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Abstract
© 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present ∼103 ks of Chandra observations of the galaxy cluster SPT-CLJ0528-5300 (SPT0528, z = 0.768). This cluster harbors the most radio-loud (L 1.4GHz = 1.01 × 1033 erg s-1 Hz-1) central active galactic nucleus (AGN) of any cluster in the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev-Zeldovich survey with available X-ray data. We find evidence of AGN-inflated cavities in the X-ray emission, which are consistent with the orientation of the jet direction revealed by Australia Telescope Compact Array radio data. The combined probability that two such depressions-each at ∼1.4-1.8σ significance, oriented ∼180° apart and aligned with the jet axis-would occur by chance is 0.1%. At ⪆1061 erg, the outburst in SPT0528 is among the most energetic known in the universe, and certainly the most powerful known at z > 0.25. This work demonstrates that such powerful outbursts can be detected even in shallow X-ray exposures out to relatively high redshifts (z ∼ 0.8), providing an avenue for studying the evolution of extreme AGN feedback. The ratio of the cavity power (Pcaw=(9.4 ±5.8)× 1045 erg s-1) to the cooling luminosity (L cool = (1.5 ± 0.5) × 1044 erg s-1) for SPT0528 is among the highest measured to date. If, in the future, additional systems are discovered at similar redshifts with equally high P cav/L cool ratios, it would imply that the feedback/cooling cycle was not as gentle at high redshifts as in the low-redshift universe.
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/AB5B07
