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X-ray Imaging Spectroscopy of Abell 1835

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We present detailed spatially-resolved spectroscopy results of the observation of Abell 1835 using the European Photon Imaging Cameras (EPIC) and the Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS) on the XMM-Newton observatory. Abell 1835 is a luminous (104610^{46} ergs s1{s}^{-1}), medium redshift (z=0.2523z=0.2523), X-ray emitting cluster of galaxies. The observations support the interpretation that large amounts of cool gas are present in a multi-phase medium surrounded by a hot (kTekT_{e}=8.2 keV) outer envelope. We detect O VIII Lyα\alpha and two Fe XXIV complexes in the RGS spectrum. The emission measure of the cool gas below kTekT_{e}=2.7 keV is much lower than expected from standard cooling-flow models, suggesting either a more complicated cooling process than simple isobaric radiative cooling or differential cold absorption of the cooler gas.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0010658,
  title  = {X-ray Imaging Spectroscopy of Abell 1835},
  author = {J. R. Peterson and F. B. S. Paerels and J. S. Kaastra and M. Arnaud and T. H. Reiprich and A. C. Fabian and R. F. Mushotzky and J. G. Jernigan and I. Sakelliou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0010658},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by A&A letters, XMM issue