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We present results from an analysis of two Chandra observations of the rich, nearby galaxy cluster Abell 2199. We find evidence (having corrected for projection effects) for radial gradients in temperature and metallicity in the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 R. M. Johnstone , S. W. Allen , A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders

We have obtained high spatial resolution temperature and abundance profiles for the galaxy cluster Abell 2029 with the Chandra ACIS-S instrument. Our observations reveal that the spectra are well-fit by a single-phase gas in each annulus.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Aaron D. Lewis , John T. Stocke , David A. Buote

We use the Chandra observation of the cold front in the intracluster gas of A3667 to estimate the magnetic field strength near the front. The front is seen in the Chandra data as a sharp discontinuity in the gas density which delineates a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Vikhlinin , M. Markevitch , S. S. Murray

(Abridged) The galaxy cluster Abell 2218, at z=0.171, is well-known for the discrepancy between mass estimates derived from X-ray and strong lensing analyses. With the present XMM observation, we trace the gas density and temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. W. Pratt , H. Boehringer , A. Finoguenov

Recent high resolution observations by the {\it Chandra} X-ray satellite revealed various substructures in hot X-ray emitting plasmas in cluster of galaxies. For example, {\it Chandra} revealed the existence of sharp discontinuities in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoki Asai , Naoya Fukuda , Ryoji Matsumoto

Abell 754, a cluster undergoing merging, was observed in hard X-rays with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in order to constrain its hottest temperature component and search for evidence of nonthermal emission. Simultaneous modeling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Valinia , M. J. Henriksen , M. Loewenstein , K. Roettiger , R. F. Mushotzky , G. Madejski

We present spatially-resolved X-ray spectroscopy of the luminous lensing cluster Abell 2390, using observations made with the Chandra observatory. The temperature of the X-ray gas is shown to rise with increasing radius within the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. W. Allen , S. Ettori , A. C. Fabian

In this work, we present a high spatial resolution study of a fossil cluster, SDSS J0150-1005 ($z \simeq 0.364$), based on the imaging spectroscopic analysis of \chandra\ observation. The \chandra\ X-ray image shows a relax and symmetric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Zhenzhen Qin , Haiguang Xu , Jingying Wang , Junhua Gu

We have derived azimuthally-averaged radial temperature profiles of the X-ray gas contained within 11 clusters of galaxies with redshift z=0.03-0.2 with BeppoSAX. Each of the 11 clusters have had their radial temperature profiles previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jimmy A. Irwin , Joel N. Bregman

Abell~1142 is a low-mass galaxy cluster at low redshift containing two comparable Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCG) resembling a scaled-down version of the Coma Cluster. Our Chandra analysis reveals an X-ray emission peak, roughly 100 kpc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Yuanyuan Su , David A. Buote , Fabio Gastaldello , Reinout van Weeren

Past observations and simulations predict an increasingly inhomogeneous gas distribution towards the outskirts of galaxy clusters, but the exact properties of such gas clumping are not yet well known. The outskirts of Abell 133 benefit from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-18 Zhenlin Zhu , Orsolya E. Kovács , Aurora Simionescu , Norbert Werner

We report results from the analysis of 21 nearby galaxy clusters, 11 with cooling flow (CF) and 10 without cooling flow, observed with BeppoSAX. The temperature profiles of both CF and non-CF systems are characterized by an isothermal core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sabrina De Grandi , Silvano Molendi

We present results from recent Suzaku and Chandra X-ray, and MMT optical observations of the strongly merging "double cluster" A1750 out to its virial radius, both along and perpendicular to a putative large-scale structure filament. Some…

Mergers of galaxy clusters are the most energetic events in the universe, driving shock and cold fronts, generating turbulence, and accelerating particles that create radio halos and relics. The galaxy cluster CL 0217+70 is a remarkable…

X-ray data analysis have found that fairly complex structures at cluster centres are more common than expected. Many of these structures have similar morphologies, which exhibit spiral-like substructure. It is not yet well known how these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-23 Tatiana F. Lagana , Felipe Andrade-Santos , Gastao B. Lima Neto

We present a two dimensional map of the gas temperature distribution in the Centaurus cluster, based on ASCA observations derived using a novel approach to account for the energy dependent point spread function. Along with a cool region,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov , W. Forman , C. Jones

We present Chandra observations of EMSS 1358+6245, a relaxed cooling flow cluster of galaxies at z = 0.328. We employ a new deprojection technique to construct temperature, gas, and dark matter profiles. We confirm the presence of cool gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Arabadjis , M. W. Bautz , G. P. Garmire

SPT-CL J2106-5844 is among the most massive galaxy clusters at z>1 yet discovered. While initially used in cosmological tests to assess the compatibility with $\Lambda$CDM cosmology of such a massive virialized object at this redshift, more…

Galaxy cluster mergers drive powerful shock fronts that heat the intracluster medium (ICM) and accelerate particles, redistributing the energy in a merger. A665 is one of only a few clusters with such a powerful shock ($\mathcal{M}\sim$3),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Christian Norseth , Daniel R. Wik , Craig L. Sarazin , Ming Sun , Fabio Gastaldello

We study clusters in the BCS cluster sample which are observed by Chandra and are more distant than redshift, z>0.1. We select from this subsample the clusters which have both a short central cooling time and a central temperature drop, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. J. H. Dunn , A. C. Fabian