Diffuse light in the young cluster of galaxies CL J1449+0856 at z=2.07
  Cluster properties do not seem to be changing significantly during their
mature evolution phase, for example they do not seem to show strong dynamical
evolution at least up to z~0.5, their galaxy red sequence is already in place
at least up to z$\sim$1.2, and their diffuse light content remains stable up to
z~0.8. The question is now to know if cluster properties can evolve more
significantly at redshifts notably higher than 1. We propose here to see how
the properties of the intracluster light (ICL) evolve with redshift by
detecting and analysing the ICL in the X-ray cluster CL J1449+0856 at z=2.07
(discovered by Gobat et al. 2011), based on deep HST NICMOS H band exposures.We
used the same wavelet-based method as that applied to 10 clusters between z=0.4
and 0.8 by Guennou et al. (2012). We detect three diffuse light sources with
respective total magnitudes of H=24.8, 25.5, and 25.9, plus a more compact
object with a magnitude H=25.3. We discuss the significance of our detections
and show that they are robust. The three sources of diffuse light indicate an
elongation along a north-east south-west axis, similar to that of the
distribution of the central galaxies and to the X-ray elongation. This strongly
suggests a history of merging events along this direction. While Guennou et al.
(2012) found a roughly constant amount of diffuse light for clusters between
z~0 and 0.8, we put in evidence at least a 1.5 magnitude increase between z~0.8
and 2. If we assume that the amount of diffuse light is directly linked to the
infall activity on the cluster, this implies that CL J1449+0856 is still
undergoing strong merging events.
