Temperature Map of the Perseus Cluster of Galaxies Observed with ASCA

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2001-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110146v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 3 figures (including color), accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/324758

We present two-dimensional temperature map of the Perseus cluster based on multi-pointing observations with the ASCA GIS, covering a region with a diameter of ~2^\circ. By correcting for the effect of the X-ray telescope response, the temperatures were estimated from hardness ratios and the complete temperature structure of the cluster with a spatial resolution of about 100 kpc was obtained for the first time. There is an extended cool region with a diameter of ~20' and kT ~5 keV at about 20' east from the cluster center. This region also shows higher surface brightness and is surrounded by a large ring-like hot region with kT > 7 keV, and likely to be a remnant of a merger with a poor cluster. Another extended cool region is extending outward from the IC 310 subcluster. These features and the presence of several other hot and cool blobs suggest that this rich cluster has been formed as a result of a repetition of many subcluster mergers.

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