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Fogarty, K.; Postman, Marc; Donahue, Megan; Li, Yuan; Liu, Hauyu B.; Dannerbauer, H.; Balestra, Italo; Frye, Brenda; Koekemoer, Anton; Umetsu, Keiichi; Ziegler, Bodo
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #233, id.#419.07
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2019
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We present the results of band 3, 6, and 7 ALMA observations obtained of
the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in MACS 1931.8-2635 over the course
of Cycles 4 and 5. MACS 1931 is a massive (M500 = ˜5 x 1014
M⊙) cool-core galaxy cluster in the Cluster Lensing and Supernova
survey with Hubble (CLASH) with the most actively star-forming BCG in
the sample, at ˜250 M⊙ yr-1. Our observations of the CO (1-0),
(3-2) and (4-3) lines reveal a reservoir of molecular gas with a mass of
about 2 x 1010 M⊙, on par with the Phoenix cluster, and with a
complex dynamical structure. Continuum emission bands 6 and 7 also
traces the morphology of cold dust in the BCG. Both the molecular gas
and dust morphologies trace ultraviolet knots in the BCG core, along
with an Hα-bright tail extending several tens of kpc away to the
northwest. We investigate the multiphase nature of material in this
system by comparing our observations of CO and dust with measurements of
ultraviolet and Hα fluxes previously obtained with CLASH
photometry, and discuss the correlations between molecular gas and dust
morphologies, and features observed in both radio and X-ray data. We
examine possible formation scenarios for dust in the BCG, as well as the
implications of the velocity structure, CO line ratios, and limits on
the molecular gas velocity dispersion for the mechanism of condensation
of the multiphase gas in this system.