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We report the detection of both soft and hard excess X-ray emission in the cluster of galaxies A 2199, based upon spatially resolved spectroscopy with data from the BeppoSAX, EUVE and ROSAT missions. The excess emission is visible at radii…

We make a further study of the very deep Chandra observation of the X-ray brightest galaxy cluster, A426 in Perseus. We examine the radial distribution of energy flux inferred by the quasi-concentric ripples in surface brightness, assuming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian

The Supermodel provides an accurate description of the thermal contribution by the hot intracluster plasma which is crucial for the analysis of the hard excess. In this paper the thermal emissivity in the Coma cluster is derived starting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Roberto Fusco-Femiano , Mauro Orlandini , Massimiliano Bonamente , Andrea Lapi

We have studied the coronal X-ray emission of the recently discovered short-period eclipsing binary HD 9770 with the BeppoSAX satellite. The data from the Low Energy and Medium Energy Concentrator Spectrometers (LECS & MECS) onboard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Tagliaferri , S. Covino , G. Cutispoto , R. Pallavicini

We present results of X-ray observations of the Coma cluster with multiple instruments over a broad energy band. Using the data from INTEGRAL, RXTE and ROSAT observatories, we find that the Coma spectrum in the 0.5-107 keV energy band can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. A. Lutovinov , A. Vikhlinin , E. M. Churazov , M. G. Revnivtsev , R. A. Sunyaev

We present the first results from a new, deep (200ks) Chandra observation of the X-ray luminous galaxy cluster surrounding the powerful (L ~10^47 erg/s), high-redshift (z=1.067), compact-steep-spectrum radio-loud quasar 3C186. The diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Aneta Siemiginowska , D. J. Burke , Thomas L. Aldcroft , D. M. Worrall , S. Allen , Jill Bechtold , Tracy Clarke , C. C. Cheung

Here we present results from over 500 kiloseconds Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of the cool core of the Centaurus cluster. We investigate the spatial distributions of the O, Mg, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Ni abundances in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-01 Kotaro Fukushima , Shogo B. Kobayashi , Kyoko Matsushita

We present preliminary results of the XMM-Newton 50 ksec observation of the Perseus cluster. The global east/west asymmetry of the gas temperature and surface brightness distributions, approximately aligned with the chain of bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 E. Churazov , W. Forman , C. Jones , H. Böhringer

At a flux limit of ~10^(-11) erg/cm2/s in the 20-100 keV band, the PDS instrument on-board BeppoSAX offers the opportunity to study the extragalactic sky with an unprecedented sensitivity. In this work we report on the results of a search…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Landi , A. Malizia , L. Bassani

Here we re-analyze the archival {\it Chandra} data for the central parts of the Centaurus\,A radio galaxy, aiming for a systematic investigation of the X-ray emission associated with the inner radio lobes in the system, and their immediate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-10 Dominika Ł. Król , Volodymyr Marchenko , Michał Ostrowski , Łukasz Stawarz

Using an XMM-Newton observation of the Perseus cluster we show that the excess in the flux of the 7-8 keV line complex previously detected by ASCA and BeppoSAX is due to an overabundance of Nickel rather than to an anomalously high Fe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabio Gastaldello , Silvano Molendi

Using a deep Chandra observation of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, we find a high-abundance shell 250 arcsec (93 kpc) from the central nucleus. This ridge lies at the edge of the Perseus radio mini-halo. In addition we identify two Halpha…

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

We report a detection (3.5x10^37 \pm 5.6x10^36 ergps) of the optical coronal emission line [Fe X]6374 and upper limits of four other coronal lines using high resolution VIMOS spectra centred on NGC 4696, the brightest cluster galaxy in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 R. E. A. Canning , A. C. Fabian , R. M. Johnstone , J. S. Sanders , C. S. Crawford , N. A. Hatch , G. J. Ferland

The cooling flow cluster Hydra A was observed during the orbital activation and calibration phase of the Chandra Observatory. While the X-ray image of the cluster exhibits complex structure in the central region as reported in McNamara…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. P. David , P. E. J. Nulsen , B. R. McNamara , W. Forman , C. Jones , T. Ponman , B. Robertson , M. Wise

The X-ray emission by hot gas at the centers of clusters of galaxies is commonly modeled assuming the existence of steady-state, inhomogeneous cooling flows. We derive the metallicity profiles of the intracluster medium expected from such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Reisenegger , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Eli Waxman

We report the results of spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy of 8 different ASCA pointings distributed symmetrically around the center of the Perseus cluster. The outer region of the intracluster gas is roughly isothermal, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Renato A. Dupke , Joel N. Bregman

We review recent results from Chandra observations of the X-ray bright cores of clusters of galaxies. We discuss the detection of ``cold fronts'' and their implication for thermal conduction, the interaction of cooling flow and radio source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ettori , A. C. Fabian

ASCA and ROSAT X-ray data are used to obtain two-dimensional maps of the gas temperature, pressure and specific entropy in the Triangulum Australis cluster of galaxies. We find that this hot (T_e=10.3+-0.8 keV) system probably has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. L. Markevitch , C. L. Sarazin , J. A. Irwin

We present an analysis of four off-axis ROSAT PSPC observations of the Perseus cluster of galaxies (Abell~426). We detect the surface brightness profile to a radius of 80 arcmin ($\sim 2.4 h_{50}^{-1}$ Mpc) from the X-ray peak. The profile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Ettori , A. C. Fabian , D. A. White

We review all the BeppoSAX results relative to the search for additional nonthermal components in the spectra of clusters of galaxies. In particular, our MECS data analysis of A2199 does not confirm the presence of the nonthermal excess…