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We present results from a 140 ks Chandra/ACIS-S observation of the hot gas around the canonical FR I radio galaxy 3C 449. An earlier, shorter 30 ks Chandra observation of the group gas showed an unusual entropy distribution and a surface…

Merging galaxy clusters leave long-lasting signatures on the baryonic and non-baryonic cluster constituents, including shock fronts, cold fronts, X-ray substructure, radio halos, and offsets between the dark matter and the gas components.…

We present the results of deep Chandra, XMM-Newton and Suzaku observations of the nearby galaxy cluster Abell 85, which is currently undergoing at least two mergers, and in addition shows evidence for gas sloshing which extends out to r ~…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. Ichinohe , N. Werner , A. Simionescu , S. W. Allen , R. E. A. Canning , S. Ehlert , F. Mernier , T. Takahashi

We present new XMM-Newton observations of the northwest (NW) radio relic region in the cluster Abell 3667. We detect a jump in the X-ray surface brightness and X-ray temperature at the sharp outer edge of the radio relic which indicate that…

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We analyzed new 237 MHz and 614 MHz GMRT data of the most X-ray luminous galaxy cluster, RX J1347-1145. Our radio results are compared with the MUSTANG 90 GHz Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect map and with re-processed Chandra and XMM-Newton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Ferrari , H. T. Intema , E. Orrù , F. Govoni , M. Murgia , B. Mason , H. Bourdin , K. M. Asad , P. Mazzotta , M. W. Wise , T. Mroczkowski , J. H. Croston

We present an analysis of a Chandra observation of Abell 2034. The cluster has multiple signatures of an ongoing merger, including a cold front and probable significant heating of the intracluster medium above its equilibrium temperature.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. Kempner , C. L. Sarazin , M. Markevitch

We present the results of deep 140 ks Suzaku X-ray observations of the north-east (NE) radio relic of the merging galaxy cluster Abell2255. The temperature structure of Abell2255 is measured out to 0.9 times the virial radius (1.9 Mpc) in…

We present the results of a Chandra observation of the cooling core cluster Abell 2063. Spectral analysis shows that there is cool gas (2 keV) associated with the cluster core, which is more than a factor of 2 cooler than the outer cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kalin N. Kanov , Craig L. Sarazin , Amalia K. Hicks

We report the discovery of a pair of giant cavities, each nearly 200 kpc in diameter, embedded in the gaseous halo of the redshift z=0.216 galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421. The cavities appear as surface brightness depressions in an image of…

We present results based on new Chandra and multi-frequency radio observations of the disturbed cool core cluster Abell 133. The diffuse gas has a complex bird-like morphology, with a plume of emission extending from two symmetric wing-like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. W. Randall , T. E. Clarke , P. E. J. Nulsen , M. S. Owers , C. L. Sarazin , W. R. Forman , S. S. Murray

Deep XMM and Chandra observations of ClJ1226.9+3332 at z=0.89 have enabled the most detailed X-ray mass analysis of any such high-redshift galaxy cluster. The XMM temperature profile of the system shows no sign of central cooling, with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 B. J. Maughan , C. Jones , L. R. Jones , L. Van Speybroeck

RXCJ0232.2-4420, at $z$ = 0.28, is a peculiar system hosting a radio halo source around the cool-core of the cluster. To investigate its formation and nature, we used archival {\it Chandra} and XMM-\textit{Newton} X-ray data to study the…

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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 observed the prototypical wide-angle tail radio galaxy 3C465 with Chandra and XMM-Newton. X-ray emission is detected from the active nucleus and the inner radio jet, as well as a small-scale, cool component of thermal emission, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. J. Hardcastle , I. Sakelliou , D. M. Worrall

We present the results of Suzaku and Chandra observations of the galaxy cluster RXC J1053.7+5453 ($z=0.0704$), which contains a radio relic. The radio relic is located at the distance of $\sim 540$ kpc from the X-ray peak toward the west.…

A detailed X-ray analysis of an XMM-Newton observation of the high-redshift (z=0.89) galaxy cluster ClJ1226.9+3332 is presented. The X-ray temperature is found to be 11.5{+1.1}{-0.9}keV, the highest X-ray temperature of any cluster at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. J. Maughan , L. R. Jones , H. Ebeling , C. Scharf

Radio observations of a few cool-core galaxy clusters have revealed the presence of diffuse emission on cluster scales, similar to what was found in merging clusters in the form of radio halos. These sources might suggest that a minor…

We present an analysis of a highly asymmetric cluster merger from a Chandra observation of Abell 85. The merger shows significant disruption of the less massive subcluster from ram pressure effects. Nevertheless, a cold core, coincident…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joshua Kempner , Craig Sarazin , Paul Ricker

We present the Chandra analysis of the galaxy cluster A521 (z=0.247). The high resolution of the Chandra observation has allowed us to refine the original merging scenario proposed for A521, and to reveal new features in its X-ray emission.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Ferrari , M. Arnaud , S. Ettori , S. Maurogordato , J. Rho

We report the discovery of highly distorted X-ray emission associated with the nearby cluster Zw1718.1-0108, one of whose dominant members is the powerful radio galaxy 3C353. This cluster has been missed by previous X-ray cluster surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Iwasawa , S. Ettori , A. C. Fabian , A. C. Edge , H. Ebeling