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We examine deep Chandra X-ray observations of the Centaurus cluster of galaxies, Abell 3526. Applying a gradient magnitude filter reveals a wealth of structure, from filamentary soft emission on 100pc (0.5 arcsec) scales close to the…

We present temperature and metallicity maps of the Perseus cluster core obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We find an overall temperature rise from ~3.0 keV in the core to ~5.5 keV at 120 kpc and a metallicity profile that rises…

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

There has been extensive recent progress in X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies with the analysis of the entire ASCA database and recent new results from Beppo-SAX, Chandra, and XMM-Newton. The temperature profiles of most clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard F. Mushotzky

Hard X-ray radiation has been detected for the first time in the Coma cluster by BeppoSAX. Thanks to the unprecedented sensitivity of the Phoswich Detection System (PDS) instrument, the source has been detected up to ~80 keV. There is clear…

We report the first observations of metal distributions in the intracluster medium of the Centaurus cluster up to ~0.17 r_180 with Suzaku. Radial profiles of the O, Mg, Si, S, Ar, Ca, and Fe were determined at the outer region of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Eri Sakuma , Naomi Ota , Kosuke Sato , Takuya Sato , Kyoko Matsushita

We present a combined analysis of the BeppoSAX and ROSAT PSPC observation of the cluster of galaxies A3562, a massive member of the core of the Shapley Supercluster. With a complex and interacting structure composed from two groups of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. Ettori , S. Bardelli , S. De Grandi , S. Molendi , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca

We present preliminary results from two observations of the radio galaxy Centaurus A performed by the BeppoSAX satellite. We did not detect any spectral variation of the nuclear continuum in spite of the long-term flux change (by a factor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Grandi , C. M. Urry , L. Maraschi

We present results from a spatially resolved spectral analysis of the merging cluster Abell 2256. The long integration time (135 ks) and the good spatial resolution of the MECS onboard BeppoSAX allow us to derive a new and substantially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Silvano Molendi , Sabrina De Grandi , Roberto Fusco-Femiano

We present two-dimensional temperature maps of three bright clusters of galaxies Abell 1060, AWM7, and the Centaurus cluster, based on multi-pointing observations with the ASCA GIS. The temperatures are derived from hardness ratios by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Furusho , N. Y. Yamasaki , T. Ohashi , R. Shibata , T. Kagei , Y. Ishisaki , K. Kikuchi , H. Ezawa , Y. Ikebe

We present high resolution images of the Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) structure of the radio galaxy PKS 1246-410, at the center of the Centaurus cluster. Comparison with Halpha-line and soft X-ray emission reveals a correspondence between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. B. Taylor , A. C. Fabian , G. Gentile , S. W. Allen , C. Crawford , J. S. Sanders

The BeppoSAX satellite performed a survey of the Galactic Center Region in the 1-10 keV energy band with its Narrow Field Instruments. Several bright X-ray sources containing neutron stars and black holes have been observed and studied,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , A. Treves , L. Chiappetti , G. L. Israel , M. Orlandini , ;

We re-analyse a combined 198 ks Chandra observation of NGC4696, the brightest galaxy of the Centaurus cluster. We extract temperature and metallicity profiles from the data, and we confirm the presence of a sharp drop in iron abundance,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. K. Panagoulia , A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders

We present a long BeppoSAX observation of Abell 754 that reports a nonthermal excess with respect to the thermal emission at energies greater than ~45 keV. A VLA radio observation at 1.4 GHz definitely confirms the existence of diffuse…

We present the first results of BeppoSAX observations of a small sample of low brightness FRI radio galaxies. The flux of all the targets is consistent with a thermal spectrum, as due to the presence of hot intracluster gas or galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Trussoni , F. Vagnetti , S. Massaglia , L. Feretti , P. Parma , R. Morganti , R. Fanti , P. Padovani , G. Bodo

We examine deep {\it XMM-Newton} EPIC-pn observations of the Centaurus cluster to study the hot intracluster medium (ICM) and radial metal distributions within such an environment. We found that the best-fit spectral model corresponds to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-07 Efrain Gatuzz , J. S. Sanders , K. Dennerl , A. Liu , A. C. Fabian , C. Pinto , D. Eckert , S. A. Walker , J. ZuHone

We report new results on the cluster of galaxies Abell 970 obtained from X-ray observation with BeppoSAX. Our analysis of the BeppoSAX MECS and LECS data in the range [0.15-10] keV reveals a mean cluster gas temperature of kT =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. B. Lima Neto , H. V. Capelato , L. Sodre , D. Proust

We report the observation of the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) of Abell 85 by the X-ray satellite BeppoSAX. We have both analysed the spectrum obtained in the central 8 arcmin circular region centred on the Very Steep Spectrum Radio Source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. B. Lima Neto , V. Pislar , J. Bagchi

The Circinus Galaxy has been observed, for the first time above 10 keV, by BeppoSAX. An excess emission above the extrapolation of the best fit 0.1--10 keV spectrum is apparent in the PDS data. The most likely explanation is that we are…

Detailed temperature and abundance radial profile maps have revealed a significant lack of homogeneity within the Perseus Galaxy cluster. Previous surveys of Perseus with the Suzaku telescope, which has a worse angular resolution and less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-05 Paul Geringer , Matthew Wampler-Doty , Melville Ulmer