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This paper provides a new analysis of ROSAT observations of the Coma cluster, to determine the amount of soft X--ray radiation in excess of the contribution from the hot intra--cluster medium. The re--analysis is made possible by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-20 M. Bonamente , M. Mirakhor , R. Lieu , S. Walker

The Coma cluster exhibits evidence for a high-energetic non-thermal particle population. At frequencies >1 GHz recent radio halo observations confirm a significant spectral steepening of the volume-integrated emission. We calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Reimer , O. Reimer , R. Schlickeiser , A. Iyudin

Galaxy clusters trace the densest regions of the cosmic web and are crucial laboratories for studying the thermodynamic and chemical evolution of the intracluster medium (ICM). We present a Chandra study of the massive galaxy cluster SPT-CL…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Dan Hu , Shida Fan , Zhongsheng Yuan , Junjie Mao , Norbert Werner , Yuanyuan Su , François Mernier , Yuanyuan Zhao , Liyi Gu , Haiguang Xu

Aims. We report the INTEGRAL/IBIS observations of the Coma Cluster in the hard X-ray/soft-ray domain. Methods. Since the Coma Cluster appears as an extended source, its global intensity and significance cannot be directly extracted with…

In galaxy clusters the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect from the hot intracluster medium (ICM) provides a direct, self-contained measure of the pressure integrated over crossing lines of sight, that is intrinsically independent of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Cavaliere , A. Lapi

This is the first paper in a series of studies of the Coma cluster using the SRG/eROSITA X-ray data obtained in course of the Calibration and Performance Verification observations. The data cover $\sim3^\circ\times 3^\circ$ area around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 E. Churazov , I. Khabibullin , N. Lyskova , R. Sunyaev , A. M. Bykov

We present a new analysis of very deep Chandra observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 1795. Utilizing nearly 750 ks of net ACIS imaging, we are able to resolve the thermodynamic structure of the Intracluster Medium (ICM) on length scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Ehlert , M. McDonald , E. D. Miller , L. P. David , M. W. Bautz

We report Suzaku observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 1795 that extend to r_200 ~ 2 Mpc, the radius within which the mean cluster mass density is 200 times the cosmic critical density. These observations are the first to probe the state…

(Abridged) X-ray clusters are conventionally divided into two classes: "cool core" (CC) clusters and "non-cool core" (NCC) clusters. Yet relatively little attention has been given to the origins of this dichotomy and, in particular, to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ian G. McCarthy , Arif Babul , Richard G. Bower , Michael L. Balogh

X-ray data of the Centaurus cluster, obtained with {\it XMM-Newton} for 45 ksec, were analyzed. Deprojected EPIC spectra from concentric thin shell regions were reproduced equally well by a single-phase plasma emission model, or by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 I. Takahashi , M. Kawaharada , K. Makishima , K. Matsushita , Y. Fukazawa , Y. Ikebe , T. Kitaguchi , M. Kokubun , K. Nakazawa , S. Okuyama , N. Ota , T. Tamura

The thermodynamics of the diffuse, X-ray emitting gas in clusters of galaxies is linked to the entropy level of the intra cluster medium. In particular, models that successfully reproduce the properties of local X-ray clusters and groups…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Tozzi , Caleb Scharf , Colin Norman

Evidence for nonthermal activity in clusters of galaxies is well established from radio observations of synchrotron emission by relativistic electrons, and new windows (in EUV and Hard X-ray ranges) have provided more powerful tools for its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahe' Petrosian

Central cool gas component that is often observed from a well-relaxed cluster system has long been interpreted as a consequence of ``Cooling Flow'' (CF), radiative cooling followed by inflow of Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM). However, recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasushi Ikebe

The hot plasma in galaxy clusters, the intracluster medium (ICM), is expected to be shaped by subsonic turbulent motions, which are key for heating, cooling, and transport mechanisms. The turbulent motions contribute to the non-thermal…

The Planck collaboration has recently published precise and resolved measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in Abell 1656 (the Coma cluster of galaxies), so directly gauging the electron pressure profile in the intracluster plasma.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. Fusco-Femiano , A. Lapi , A. Cavaliere

We fit a functional form for a universal ICM entropy profile to the scaled entropy profiles of a catalogue of X-ray galaxy cluster outskirts results, which are all relaxed cool core clusters at redshift below 0.25. We also investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. A. Walker , A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders , M. R. George

We present here \chandra observations of the rich cluster of galaxies A2256. In addition to the known cool subcluster, a new structure was resolved 2$'$ east of the peak of the main cluster. Its position is roughtly at the center of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Sun , S. S. Murray , M. Markevitch , A. Vikhlinin

We have undertaken a search for the infrared emission from the intracluster dust in the Coma cluster of galaxies by the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer. Our observations yield the deepest mid and far-infrared images of a galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 T. Kitayama , Y. Ito , Y. Okada , H. Kaneda , H. Takahashi , N. Ota , T. Onaka , Y. Y. Tajiri , H. Nagata , K. Yamada

An excess of soft X-ray emission (0.2-1 keV) above the contribution from the hot intra-cluster medium (ICM) has been detected in a number of galaxy clusters, including the Coma cluster. The physical origin of this emitting medium above hot…

We have analyzed all available archival XMM-Newton observations of X Comae, a bright X-ray quasar behind the Coma cluster, to study the properties of the warm-hot intergalactic medium in the vicinity of the nearest massive galaxy cluster.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. Bonamente , J. Ahoranta , E. Tilton , E. Tempel , A. Morandi