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An XMM-Newton observation of the cool (kT=2.1 keV) cluster A1983, at z=0.044, is presented. Gas density and temperature profiles are calculated for the inner 500 h_{50}^{-1} kpc (~0.35 r_200). The outer regions of the surface brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud

New X-ray observations with XMM-Newton show a lack of spectral evidence for large amounts of cooling and condensing gas in the centers of galaxy clusters believed to harbour strong cooling flows. The paper reexplores the cooling flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Boehringer , K. Matsushita , E. Churazov , Y. Ikebe , Y. Chen

The initial results from XMM-Newton observations of the rich cluster of galaxies Abell 1795 are presented. The spatially-resolved X-ray spectra taken by the European Photon Imaging Cameras (EPIC) show a temperature drop at a radius of $\sim…

We examine deep XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) spectra from the cores of three X-ray bright cool core galaxy clusters, Abell 262, Abell 3581 and HCG 62. Each of the RGS spectra show Fe XVII emission lines indicating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-23 J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian , K. A. Frank , J. R. Peterson , H. R. Russell

The results from XMM-Newton observations of the relaxed cluster of galaxies Abell~496 are presented. The spatially-resolved X-ray spectra taken by the European Photon Imaging Cameras show a temperature drop and a Fe abundance increase in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Tamura , J. A. M. Bleeker , J. S. Kaastra , C. Ferrigno , S. Molendi

We present results from the XMM-Newton observation of the non-cooling flow cluster A1060. Large effective area of XMM-Newton enables us to investigate the nature of this cluster in unprecedented detail. From the observed surface brightness…

We present an XMM-Newton observation of A1413, a hot (kT = 6.5 keV) galaxy cluster at z=0.143. We construct gas and temperature profiles up to ~1700 kpc, equivalent to ~0.7 r_200. The gas distribution is well described by a beta model in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud

We present results on the spectroscopic analysis of XMM-Newton EPIC data of the central 0.5/h_50 Mpc regions of the clusters of galaxies Coma, A1795 and A3112. The temperature of the hot intracluster gas as determined by modeling the 2 - 7…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Nevalainen , R. Lieu , M. Bonamente , D. Lumb

We present the X-ray properties of a massive cluster of galaxies (RXCJ2228.6+2036 at $z=0.421$) using {\it XMM-Newton} data. The X-ray mass modeling is based on the temperature and density distributions of the intracluster medium derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Jia , H. Boehringer , E. Pointecouteau , Y. Chen , Y. Y. Zhang

We present the results of a {\it Chandra} observation of the central region of Abell 3112. This cluster has a powerful radio source in the center and was believed to have a strong cooling flow. The X-ray image shows that the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Motokazu Takizawa , Craig L. Sarazin , Elizabeth L. Blanton , Greg B. Taylor

We present an \xmm mosaic observation of the hot ($kT\sim6.5$ keV) and nearby ($z=0.0881$) relaxed cluster of galaxies A478. We derive precise gas density, gas temperature, gas mass and total mass profiles up to $12\arcmin$ (about half of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Pointecouteau , M. Arnaud , J. Kaastra , J. de Plaa

Chandra ACIS-S observations of the galaxy cluster A3112 feature the presence of an excess of X-ray emission above the contribution from the diffuse hot gas, which can be equally well modeled with an additional non-thermal power-law model or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bonamente , J. Nevalainen , R. Lieu

We report on a 120 ks XMM-Newton observation of the galaxy cluster Abell 2597. Results from both the European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) and the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) are presented. From EPIC we obtain radial profiles of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 R. Glenn Morris , A. C. Fabian

The 5-9 keV spectrum of the inner ~100 kpc of the Perseus cluster measured by XMM-Newton can be well described by an optically thin plasma emission model as predicted by the APEC code, without any need for invoking a strong Ni overabundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 E. Churazov , W. Forman , C. Jones , R. Sunyaev , H. Böhringer

We study the physical properties of three clusters of galaxies, selected from a BeppoSAX Wide Field Camera (WFC) survey. These sources are identified as 1RXS J153934.7-833535, 1RXS J160147.6-754507, and 1RXS J081232.3-571423 in the ROSAT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-19 Y. G. Grange , E. Costantini , J. de Plaa , J. J. M. in 't Zand , F. Verbunt , J. S. Kaastra , F. Verrecchia

(Abridged) We present a spectral analysis of a deep (220 ks) XMM-Newton observation of the Phoenix cluster (SPT-CL J2344-4243), which we also combine with Chandra archival ACIS-I data. We extract CCD and RGS X-ray spectra from the core…

By analysing the Chandra and XMM-Newton archived data of the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 3158, which was reported to possess a relatively regular, relaxed morphology in the X-ray band in previous works, we identify a bow edge-shaped…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yu Wang , Haiguang Xu , Liyi Gu , Junhua Gu , Zhenzhen Qin , Jingying Wang , Zhongli Zhang , Xiang-Ping Wu

We study the thermodynamic properties of the hot gas in a sample of groups in the 0.012-0.024 redshift range, using XMM-Newton observations. We present measurements of temperature, entropy, pressure and iron abundance. Non-parametric fits…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Finoguenov , T. J. Ponman , J. P. F. Osmond , M. Zimer

We analysed the Suzaku XIS1 data of the A3112 cluster of galaxies in order to examine the X-ray excess emission in this cluster reported earlier with the XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites. The best-fit temperature of the intracluster gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Lehto , J. Nevalainen , M. Bonamente , N. Ota , J. Kaastra

We report on the analysis of XMM-Newton observations of RX J1347.5-1145 (z=0.451), the most X-ray-luminous galaxy cluster. We present a detailed total and gas mass determination up to large distances (~1.7 Mpc), study the scaling properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Myriam Gitti , Rocco Piffaretti , Sabine Schindler
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