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We present a Chandra study of 38 X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies in the ROSAT Brightest Cluster Sample (BCS) that lie at z~0.15-0.4. We find that the majority of clusters at moderate redshift generally have smooth, relaxed morphologies…

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

We use Chandra data to derive a detailed gas temperature map of the nearby, hot, merging galaxy cluster A754. Combined with the X-ray and optical images, the map reveals a more complex merger geometry than previously thought, possibly…

Using new XMM and Chandra observations we present an analysis of the temperature structure of the hot gas within a radius of 100 kpc of the bright nearby galaxy group NGC 5044. A spectral deprojection analysis of data extracted from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David A. Buote , Aaron D. Lewis , Fabrizio Brighenti , William G. Mathews

The RXTE satellite observed the Coma cluster for 177 ksec during November and December 2000, a second observation motivated by the intriguing results from the first 87 ksec observation in 1996. Analysis of the new dataset confirms that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yoel Rephaeli , Duane Gruber

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

Cold molecular gas is found in several clusters of galaxies (Edge, 2001, Salome' & Combes, 2003): single dish telescope observations in CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) emission lines have revealed the existence of large amounts of cold gas (up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Salome , F. Combes

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

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

High-resolution Chandra images of several clusters of galaxies reveal sharp, edge-like discontinuities in their gas density. The gas temperature is higher in front of the edge where the density is low, corresponding to approximately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Mazzotta , M. Markevitch , A. Vikhlinin , W. R. Forman

Molecular cold gas and star formation have been observed at centers of cool-core clusters, albeit at a level much smaller than expected from the classic cooling model. Feedback from the supermassive black hole is likely to have prevented…

The central galaxies of some clusters can be strong emitters in the Ly$\alpha$ and H$\alpha$ lines. This emission may arise either from the cool/warm gas located in the cool core of the cluster or from the bright AGN within the central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 S. Khedekar , E. Churazov , S. Sazonov , R. Sunyaev , E. Emsellem

Recent observations of the Coma cluster of galaxies in its central region have provided approximately 250 new redshifts - allowing a good membership criterion to be established for brighter galaxies - and magnitudes for 8000 objects in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Durret , A. Biviano , D. Gerbal , O. Le Fevre , C. Lobo , A. Mazure , E. Slezak

It is well known that the radiative cooling time of the hot X-ray emitting gas in the cores of most clusters of galaxies is less than 10^10 yr. In many clusters the gas temperature also drops towards the centre. If we draw a causal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders

We have searched for the 3.55 keV line from sterile neutrino decay using 3.1 megaseconds of RXTE cluster data. A 2.5$\sigma$ excess of emission over a thermal model is found over the energy span of the 3.55 keV line in the combined spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-24 Mark J. Henriksen

We present results from a 38 ks Chandra X-ray observation of the z=0.059 galaxy cluster A1991. The cluster has a bright X-ray core and a central temperature gradient that declines inward from 2.7 keV at 130 kpc to approximately 1.6 keV at…

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

The physics of the coolest phases in the hot Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) of clusters of galaxies is yet to be fully unveiled. X-ray cavities blown by the central Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) contain enough energy to heat the surrounding gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 J. de Plaa , N. Werner , A. Simionescu , J. S. Kaastra , Y. G. Grange , Jacco Vink

The Coma cluster of galaxies was observed with XMM-Newton in 12 partially overlapping pointings. We present here the resulting X-ray map in different energy bands and discuss the large scale structure of this cluster. Many point sources…

New X-ray observations with XMM-Newton show a lack of spectral evidence for large amounts of cooling and condensing gas in the centers of galaxy clusters believed to harbour strong cooling flows. The paper reexplores the cooling flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Boehringer , K. Matsushita , E. Churazov , Y. Ikebe , Y. Chen

Gas at high Galactic latitude is a relatively little-noticed component of the interstellar medium. In an effort to address this, forty-one Planck Galactic Cold Clumps at high Galactic latitude (HGal; $|b|>25^{\circ}$) were observed in…