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We have analyzed spatially resolved spectra of A754 obtained with ASCA. The combination of spectral and imaging capabilities of ASCA has set unprecedented constraints on the hydrodynamical effects of a cluster merger. We find significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Henriksen , Maxim Markevitch

We present high-resolution optical images from the Hubble Space Telescope, X-ray images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and optical spectra from the Nordic Optical Telescope for a newly-discovered galaxy cluster, CHIPS1911+4455, at…

We present Chandra observations of the cool cluster A168, for which previous X-ray imaging and optical studies indicated a merger of two subclusters nearly in the plane of the sky. We derive a temperature map for A168, which shows that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric Hallman , Maxim Markevitch

We report the discovery of a binary galaxy cluster merger via a search of the redMaPPer optical cluster catalog, with a projected separation of 535 kpc between the BCGs. Archival XMM-Newton spectro-imaging reveals a gas peak between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 David Wittman , Rodrigo Stancioli , Kyle Finner , Faik Bouhrik , Reinout van Weeren , Andrea Botteon

We present the X-ray properties and scaling relations of a flux-limited morphology-unbiased sample of 12 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at redshift around 0.2 based on XMM-Newton observations. The scaled radial profiles are characterized by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. -Y. Zhang , A. Finoguenov , H. Boehringer , J. -P. Kneib , G. P. Smith , O. Czoske , G. Soucail

We represent a joint X-ray, weak-lensing, and optical analysis of the optically-selected merging cluster, HSC J085024+001536, from the Subaru HSC-SSP survey. Both the member galaxy density and the weak-lensing mass map show that the cluster…

By analyzing the gas temperature maps created from the Chandra archive data, we reveal the prevailing existence of temperature substructures on ~100 kpc scales in the central regions of nine intermediate-redshift (z~0.1) galaxy clusters,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 Liyi Gu , Haiguang Xu , Junhua Gu , Yu Wang , Zhongli Zhang , Jingying Wang , Zhenzhen Qin , Haijuan Cui , Xiang-Ping Wu

Abell 548W, one of the galaxy clusters located in the Abell 548 region, has about an order of magnitude lower X-ray luminosity compared to ordinal clusters in view of the well known intracluster medium (ICM) temperature vs X-ray luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Yuichi Kato , Liyi Gu , Madoka Kawaharada , Motokazu Takizawa , Yutaka Fujita , Kazuo Makishima

We present the first band-2 (120--250\,MHz) uGMRT (upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope) observations of the bimodal galaxy cluster Abell\,1644 (\(z = 0.0471\)), complemented by Chandra X-ray data. While weak lensing measurements reveal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Humaira Bashir , R. Kale , Asif Iqbal , Manzoor A. Malik

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of 30 ks Chandra and 46.8 ks (13 Hr) 1.4 GHz GMRT radio data on the cool-core cluster RXCJ0352.9+1941 with an objective to investigate AGN activities at its core. This study confirms a pair of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Satish S. Sonkamble , S. K. Kadam , Surajit Paul , M. B. Pandge , P. K. Pawar , M. K. Patil

We present the analysis of our 13 and 22 cm ATCA observations of the central region of the merging galaxy cluster A3921 (z=0.094). We investigated the effects of the major merger between two sub-clusters on the star formation (SF) and radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Ferrari , R. W. Hunstead , L. Feretti , S. Maurogordato , S. Schindler

We report on X-ray observations of the core of the Shapley Supercluster. Combining data from pointed observations of the ROSAT PSPC detector and data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, the observed region covers an area of $6^\circ \times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Kull , H. Boehringer

(Abridged) We present observations of the cluster of galaxies associated with the X-ray source RX J0820.9+0752 and its dramatic central cluster galaxy (CCG) in the optical and X-ray wavebands.Unlike other cooling flow CCGs studied in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Bayer-Kim , C. S. Crawford , S. W. Allen , A. C. Edge , A. C. Fabian

We use XMM-Newton observations of the cluster of galaxies A133 to study the X-ray spectrum of the intracluster medium (ICM). We find a cold front to the southeast of the cluster core. From the pressure profile near the cold front, we derive…

With two central galaxies engaged in a major merger and a remarkable chain of 19 young stellar superclusters wound around them in projection, the galaxy cluster SDSS J1531+3414 ($z=0.335$) offers an excellent laboratory to study the…

We present direct evidence of a collision of subclusters in the galaxy cluster Abell 754. Our comparison of new optical data and archival ROSAT PSPC X-ray data reveal three collision signatures predicted by n-body/hydrodynamical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ann I. Zabludoff , Dennis Zaritsky

We present a 66 ksec $\textit{Chandra}$ X-ray observation of the galaxy cluster RXJ0334.2-0111. This deep observation revealed a unique bow shock system associated with a wide angle tail (WAT) radio galaxy and several intriguing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Sarthak Dasadia , Ming Sun , Andrea Morandi , Craig Sarazin , Tracy Clarke , Paul Nulsen , Francesco Massaro , Elke Roediger , Dan Harris , Bill Forman

We report the detection of both soft and hard excess X-ray emission in the cluster of galaxies A 2199, based upon spatially resolved spectroscopy with data from the BeppoSAX, EUVE and ROSAT missions. The excess emission is visible at radii…

Galaxy clusters exhibit regular scaling relations among their bulk properties. These relations establish vital links between halo mass and cluster observables. Precision cosmology studies that depend on these links benefit from a better…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David A. Ventimiglia , G. Mark Voit , Megan Donahue , S. Ameglio

We combine multi-object spectroscopy from the 2dF and EFOSC2 spectrographs with optical imaging of the inner 30'x30' of A2384 taken with the ESO Wide Field Imager. We carry out a kinematical analysis using the EMMIX algorithm and biweight…