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We present a detailed X-ray study of the intracluster medium (ICM) of the nearby, cool-core galaxy cluster Abell 478, with Chandra and XMM observations. Using a wavelet smoothing hardness analysis, we derive detailed temperature maps of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alastair J. R. Sanderson , Alexis Finoguenov , Joseph J. Mohr

We present a detailed analysis of the thermal X-ray emission from the intracluster medium (ICM) in the cool-core galaxy cluster Abell 2667 ($z=0.23$). Our goal is to detect low-temperature ($<2$ keV) X-ray emitting gas, potentially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 M. Lepore , C. Pinto , P. Tozzi , M. Gaspari , F. Gastaldello , A. Liu , P. Rosati , R. van Weeren , G. Cresci , E. Iani , G. Rodighiero

Recent work based on a global measurement of the ICM properties find evidence for an increase of the iron abundance in galaxy clusters with temperature around 2-4 keV. We have undertaken a study of the metal distribution in nearby clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Fabio Gastaldello , Stefano Ettori , Italo Balestra , Fabrizio Brighenti , David Buote , Sabrina De Grandi , Myriam Gitti , Paolo Tozzi

We observed outer regions of a bright cluster of galaxies A2142 with Suzaku. Temperature and brightness structures were measured out to the virial radius ($r_{200}$) with good sensitivity. We confirmed the temperature drop from 9 keV around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 H. Akamatsu , A. Hoshino , Y. Ishisaki , T. Ohashi , K. Sato , Y. Takei , N. Ota

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…

The thermal, chemical, and kinematic properties of the potentially multi-phase circum/inter-galactic medium at the virial radii of galaxy clusters remain largely uncertain. We present an X-ray study of Abell 2246 and GMBCG…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Q. Daniel Wang , Stephen Walker

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 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

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

We carried out observations of the central and 20' east offset regions of the cluster of galaxies Abell 1060 with Suzaku. Spatially resolved X-ray spectral analysis has revealed temperature and abundance profiles of Abell 1060 out to 27' ~…

Recent work based on a global measurement of the ICM properties find evidence for an increase of the iron abundance in galaxy clusters with temperature around 2-4 keV up to a value about 3 times larger than that typical of very hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-29 F. Gastaldello , S. Ettori , I. Balestra , F. Brighenti , D. A. Buote , S. De Grandi , S. Ghizzardi , M. Gitti , P. Tozzi

The results from Suzaku XIS observations of the relaxed cluster of galaxies Abell2052 are presented. Offset pointing data are used to estimate the Galactic foreground emission in the direction to the cluster. Significant soft X-ray excess…

Using the EPIC and RGS data from a deep (~200 ks) XMM-Newton observation, we investigate the temperature structure (kT and sigma_T ) and the abundances of 9 elements (O, Ne, Mg, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Fe and Ni) of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-25 François Mernier , Jelle de Plaa , Lorenzo Lovisari , Ciro Pinto , Yu-Ying Zhang , Jelle S. Kaastra , Norbert Werner , Aurora Simionescu

The results of Suzaku observations of the outskirts of Abell 3395 including a large-scale structure filament toward Abell 3391 are presented. We measured temperature and abundance distributions from the southern outskirt of Abell 3395 to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Yuuki Sugawara , Motokazu Takizawa , Madoka Itahana , Hiroki Akamatsu , Yutaka Fujita , Takaya Ohashi , Yoshitaka Ishisaki

We present the results of interferometric observations of the cool core of Abell 1795 at CO(1-0) using the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy. In agreement with previous work, we detect a significant amount of cold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael McDonald , Lisa H. Wei , Sylvain Veilleux

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

Abell 754 is a galaxy cluster in which an ongoing merger is evident on the plane of the sky, from the southeast to the northwest. We study the spatial variation of the X-ray spectra observed with Suzaku along the merging direction,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-07 Shota Inoue , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Shutaro Ueda , Ryo Nagino , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Katsuji Koyama

The RS CVn type binary star GT Mus was observed during its quiescence using the Resolve X-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer onboard XRISM. The main and satellite lines of the Fe XXIV--XXVI K-shell transitions were resolved for the first…

XRISM observations to date have shown that gas kinetic pressures in the intracluster medium (ICM) tend towards the low end of predictions from cosmological simulations. Here, we present a XRISM observation of the merging cluster Abell 2034,…

Aims. We aim to characterize the gas properties in the cluster outskirts ($R_{500}<r<R_{200}$) and in the detected inter-cluster filaments ($>R_{200}$) of the A3391/95 system and to compare them to predictions. Methods. We performed X-ray…