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We explore the band dependence of the inferred X-ray temperature of the intracluster medium (ICM) for 192 well-observed galaxy clusters selected from the Chandra Data Archive. If the hot ICM is nearly isothermal in the projected region of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenneth W. Cavagnolo , Megan Donahue , G. Mark Voit , Ming Sun

We examine the core of the X-ray bright galaxy cluster 2A 0335+096 using deep Chandra X-ray imaging and spatially-resolved spectroscopy, and include new radio observations. The set of around eight X-ray bright blobs in the core of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-23 J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian , G. B. Taylor

Temperature maps are presented of the 9 largest clusters in the mock catalogues of Muanwong et al. for both the Preheating and Radiative models. The maps show that clusters are not smooth, featureless systems, but contain a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lesley I. Onuora , Scott T. Kay , Peter A. Thomas

We use deep Chandra X-ray Observatory observations to examine the coronae of the two brightest cluster galaxies in the Coma cluster of galaxies, NGC 4874 and NGC 4889. We find that NGC 4889 hosts a central depression in X-ray surface…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian , M. Sun , E. Churazov , A. Simionescu , S. A. Walker , N. Werner

We report the hard X-ray spectrum of the Coma cluster obtained using the PDS data of two independent BeppoSAX observations performed with a time interval of about three years. In both the spectra a non thermal excess with respect to the…

We have obtained a 12.5 ksec image of the Hercules Cluster, A2151, with the {\it ROSAT} PSPC. Comparison of the optical and X-ray data suggest the presence of at least three distinct subclusters in A2151. The brightest X-ray emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 C. M. Bird , D. S. Davis , T. C. Beers

We have analyzed X-ray spectra from six galaxy clusters which contain cooling flows: A85, A478, A1795, A2142, A2147, & A2199. The X-ray spectra were taken with the HEAO1-A2 Medium and High Energy Detectors and the Einstein Solid State…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark J. Henriksen , Raymond E. White

We identify the extended Einstein IPC X-ray source, 1E0657-56, with a previously unknown cluster of galaxies at a redshift of $z=0.296$. Optical CCD images show the presence of a gravitational arc in this cluster and galaxy spectra yield a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 W. Tucker , P. Blanco , S. Rappoport , L. David , D. Fabricant , E. E. Falco , W. Forman , A. Dressler , M. Ramella

The XMM-Newton survey of the Coma cluster of galaxies covers an area of 1.86 square degrees with a mosaic of 16 pointings and has a total useful integration time of 400 ksec. Detected X-ray sources with extent less than 10" were correlated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Finoguenov , U. G. Briel , J. P. Henry , G. Gavazzi , J. Iglesias-Paramo , A. Boselli

We have used the ROSAT PSPC to study the properties of a sample of 24 X-ray bright galaxy groups, representing the largest sample examined in detail to date. Hot plasma models are fitted to the spectral data to derive temperatures, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. F. Helsdon , T. J. Ponman

We present results on the X-ray properties of clusters and groups of galaxies, extracted from a large hydrodynamical simulation. We used the GADGET code to simulate a LambdaCDM model within a box of 192 Mpc/h on a side, with 480^3 dark…

We use new ASCA observations and archival ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) data to determine the X-ray spectral properties of the intracluster gas in Abell 644. From the overall spectrum, we determine the average gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. E. Bauer , C. L. Sarazin

We have analyzed spatially resolved spectra of A754 obtained with ASCA. The combination of spectral and imaging capabilities of ASCA has set unprecedented constraints on the hydrodynamical effects of a cluster merger. We find significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Henriksen , Maxim Markevitch

High resolution observations of cluster of galaxies by Chandra have revealed the existence of an X-ray emitting comet-like galaxy C153 in the core of cluster of galaxies A2125. The galaxy C153 moving fast in the cluster core has a distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Naoki Asai , Naoya Fukuda , Ryoji Matsumoto

RASS data near the North Galactic Pole was analyzed in order to study the large-scale distribution of soft X-ray emission from the Coma cluster. These RASS data constitute the only available X-ray observations of Coma that feature an in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Max Bonamente , Richard Lieu , Esra Bulbul

We present first results of the BeppoSAX observation of the Coma Cluster. Thanks to the unprecedented sensitivity of the PDS instrument, the source has been detected up to ~80 keV. There is clear evidence for emission in excess to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Fusco-Femiano , D. Dal Fiume , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , G. Matt , S. Molendi

We present Chandra X-ray Observations of the Hydra A cluster of galaxies, and we report the discovery of structure in the central 80 kpc of the cluster's X-ray-emitting gas. The most remarkable structures are depressions in the X-ray…

Structure formation models predict that clusters of galaxies contain numerous massive subhalos. The gravity of a subhalo in a cluster compresses the surrounding intracluster gas and enhances its X-ray emission. We present a simple model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 Felipe Andrade-Santos , Paul E. J. Nulsen , Ralph P. Kraft , William R. Forman , Christine Jones , Eugene Churazov , Alexey Vikhlinin

The radiative cooling time of the X-ray-emitting plasma near the center in many clusters of galaxies is shorter than the age of the cluster, but neither the expected large drop in central temperature --nor the expected mass flow towards the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergio Colafrancesco , Arnon Dar , Alvaro De Rujula

Coma is frequently used as the archetype z~0 galaxy cluster to compare higher redshift work against. It is not clear, however, how representative the Coma cluster is for galaxy clusters of its mass or X-ray luminosity, and significantly:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 K. A. Pimbblet , S. J. Penny , R. L. Davies