Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-09-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, including 2 postscript figs, LaTeX. To appear in the proceedings of the conference "A New Vision of an Old Cluster: U
Scientific paper
I re-examine mass estimates of the Coma cluster from pre-ASCA X-ray spectral observations. A large range of model dark matter distributions are examined, under the assumptions of hydrostatic equilibrium and spherical symmetry, to determine the widest possible allowed range on the total mass of the cluster. Within a radius of 1 Mpc, the total cluster mass is tightly constrained to be (6.2 +/- 0.9) x 10**14 solar masses and the ratio of luminous baryonic matter to total matter lies between 13% and 17%. Within a radius of 3 Mpc the total mass is (1.3 +/- 0.5) x 10**15 solar masses and the luminous matter fraction is 20%-40%. I find that the ``universal'' dark matter density profile proposed by Navarro, Frenk, and White, based on N-body simulations of a standard cold-dark-matter dominated Universe, predicts a steep temperature gradient within the core of the cluster that is a poor fit to the Coma data and can be rejected at greater than 99% confidence.
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