The Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight (Chips) Survey: Complete Sample
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Draft version January 7, 2021 Preprint typeset using LATEX style emulateapj v. 12/16/11 THE CLUSTERS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (CHiPS) SURVEY: COMPLETE SAMPLE OF EXTREME BCG CLUSTERS Taweewat Somboonpanyakul1, Michael McDonald1, Massimo Gaspari2,3, Brian Stalder4,5, and Antony A. Stark5 Draft version January 7, 2021 ABSTRACT We present optical follow-up observations for candidate clusters in the Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight (CHiPS) survey, which is designed to find new galaxy clusters with extreme central galaxies that were misidentified as bright isolated sources in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey catalog. We identify 11 cluster candidates around X-ray, radio, and mid-IR bright sources, including six well-known clusters, two false associations of foreground and background clusters, and three new candidates which are observed further with Chandra. Of the three new candidates, we confirm two newly discovered galaxy clusters: CHIPS1356-3421 and CHIPS1911+4455. Both clusters are luminous enough to be detected in the ROSAT All Sky-Survey data if not because of their bright central cores. CHIPS1911+4455 is similar in many ways to the Phoenix cluster, but with a highly-disturbed X-ray morphology on large scales. We find the occurrence rate for clusters that would appear to be X-ray bright point sources in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (and any surveys with similar angular resolution) to be 2 ± 1%, and the occurrence rate of clusters with runaway cooling in their cores to be <1%, consistent with predictions of Chaotic Cold Accretion. With the number of new groups and clusters predicted to be found with eROSITA, the population of clusters that appear to be point sources (due to a central QSO or a dense cool core) could be around 2000. Finally, this survey demonstrates that the Phoenix cluster is likely the strongest cool core at z < 0:7 { anything more extreme would have been found in this survey. Subject headings: galaxies: clusters: general | galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium | X-rays: galaxies: clusters 1. INTRODUCTION ders & Yee 2000; Rykoff et al. 2014; Gonzalez et al. Clusters of galaxies are the largest and most mas- 2019), extended extragalactic emission in X-ray (Ebeling sive gravitationally bound objects in the universe, with et al. 2000, 2001; B¨ohringeret al. 2004), or via Sunyaev- 14 15 Zel'dovich (SZ) effect (Sunyaev & Zeldovich 1972; Bleem masses of roughly 10 − 10 M (Voit 2005) and ex- tended on scales of several Mpc. On this scale, the den- et al. 2015, 2019; Planck Collaboration et al. 2016; Hilton sity field remains in the linear regime of density perturba- et al. 2020) in millimeter/sub-millimeter surveys. Each tion (Henry & Arnaud 1991). This means that the num- technique has its own unique benefits and challenges. ber density of clusters can be predicted based on first With the invention of wide field optical telescopes, per- principles (see Tinker et al. (2008) for the most recent forming optical surveys to find overdensities of galaxies calibration of halo mass function). This number density is relatively cheap, although optical surveys are strongly depends strongly on several cosmological parameters, in- affected by projection effects. For SZ surveys, we are ca- pable of detecting galaxy clusters up to relatively high cluding Ωm (the density of total matter compare) and σ8 (the amount of fluctuation in matter density) (Vikhlinin redshift since the SZ signature is redshift independent. et al. 2009b). This forms the basis of cluster cosmology. On the other hand, the SZ signature depends strongly Since the end of the Planck Satellite's mission (Planck on mass, restricting current-generation surveys to only Collaboration et al. 2018), we are now living in the era the most massive clusters (Carlstrom et al. 2002; Motl of precision cosmology where cosmological parameters of et al. 2005). Lastly, X-ray surveys have been one of the most popular techniques to discover galaxy clusters arXiv:2101.01730v1 [astro-ph.CO] 5 Jan 2021 the universe are routinely measured with percent-level uncertainty. To improve the precision of cluster cosmol- since the launch of the ROSAT X-ray satellite (e.g., the ogy, various groups have been trying to increase the num- REFLEX survey (B¨ohringeret al. 2004)). Even though ber of known galaxy clusters, by searching for overden- X-ray surveys can only produce flux-limited samples of sities of red galaxies in optical or near-infrared (Glad- galaxy clusters, cosmologists can take that into account in their selection function when they estimate cosmolog- ical parameters (Allen et al. 2008; Vikhlinin et al. 2009b; 1 Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Mantz et al. 2015). However, with the continuous im- Cambridge, MA 02139 provement in optical cluster finders, many of these SZ 2 Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, and X-ray cluster catalogs are now confirmed by the op- Princeton, NJ 08544, USA tical data, such as the recent works with SZ (Bleem et al. 3 INAF, Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio, via Piero Gobetti 93/3, 40129 Bologna, Italy 2020) and X-ray catalogs (Klein et al. 2019). 4 Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office, 950 N. Cherry With the recent SZ discovery of the Phoenix clus- Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA ter (Williamson et al. 2011; McDonald et al. 2012, 2015), 5 Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Gar- the most X-ray luminous galaxy cluster known, at z = den Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 2 Somboonpanyakul et al. 0:6, we have started to question our understanding of 2. THE CHIPS SURVEY the X-ray-survey selection function. The Phoenix clus- The CHiPS survey is designed to identify new cen- ter was detected in several previous X-ray surveys, but trally concentrated galaxy clusters and clusters host- was misidentified as a bright point source based on its ing extreme central galaxies (starbursts and/or AGNs) extremely bright active galactic nucleus (AGN) and cool within the redshift range 0.1{0.7. The first part of the core in the center of the cluster. With most X-ray surveys survey consists of identifying candidates by combining identifying objects as either a point-like or an extended several all-sky survey catalogs to look for bright objects source, a galaxy cluster with a bright point source in the at multiple wavelengths. The second part of the survey, center could be misidentified as simply a point source. which is the focus of this paper, addresses mainly our The next logical step is to ask how many of these galaxy optical follow-up program to determine the best cluster clusters we have missed in the previous surveys, and how candidates by searching for an overdensity of galaxies at this translates to a correction for the selection function. a given redshift centered on the location of the X-ray Another benefit of finding galaxy clusters hosting sources. The last part, which is also included in this pa- bright X-ray point sources is to study the cooling flow per, is to obtain Chandra data for these candidates in problem, which is the apparent disagreement between order to confirm the existence of these new clusters and the X-ray luminosity (cooling rate) of a cluster and the characterize their properties, such as the gas tempera- observed star formation rate, the latter which is typi- ture, the total mass, and the gas fraction. cally suppressed by a factor of ∼ 100. The best candi- date for explaining the inconsistency is AGN feedback 2.1. Target Selection from the central galaxy (Bower et al. 2006; Croton et al. 2006; Bower et al. 2008). There are two main modes of Our CHiPS target selection is described in detailed in AGN feedback: the kinetic mode, driven mostly by jets, our previous publication (Somboonpanyakul et al. 2018); and the radiative mode, driven by the accretion of the here we outline the main steps. AGN (Fabian 2012; McNamara & Nulsen 2012; Harri- To select systems similar to the Phoenix cluster, we re- son 2017; Gaspari et al. 2020). With very few known quire sources to be bright in X-ray, mid-IR and radio, rel- galaxy clusters with extremely bright quasars, such as ative to near-IR. The normalization to near-IR is to pre- H1821+643 (Russell et al. 2010), 3C 186 (Siemiginowska vent very nearby (e.g., galactic) low-luminosity sources et al. 2005, 2010), 3C 254 (Crawford & Fabian 2003; from overwhelming the sample. Starting with X-ray Yang et al. 2018), IRAS09104+4109 (O'Sullivan et al. point source catalogs from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey 2012), and the Phoenix cluster (McDonald et al. 2012), Bright Source Catalog and Faint Source Catalog (RASS- a larger number of such objects are required to fully un- BSC and RASS-FSC; Voges et al. 1999), we cross- derstand the role of radiative-mode feedback in the evo- correlate with radio from NVSS (Condon et al. 1998) or lution and formation of galaxy clusters. For example, SUMSS (Mauch et al. 2003), mid-IR with WISE (Wright the Chaotic Cold Accretion (CCA) model predicts a tight et al. 2010), and near-IR with 2MASS (Skrutskie et al. co-evolution between the central supermassive black hole 2006). This combination leads to two types of astro- (SMBH) and the host cluster halo (via the cooling rate physical sources: radio-loud type II QSOs and galaxy or Lx; Gaspari et al. 2019), with flickering quasar-like clusters with an active core (a starburst and/or AGN- peaks reached only a few percent of times (Gaspari et al. hosting BCG). This approach is similar to two other sur- 2017).