Chandra constraints on the thermal conduction in the intracluster plasma of A2142

Details Chandra constraints on the thermal conduction in the intracluster plasma of A2142 Chandra constraints on the thermal conduction in the intracluster plasma of A2142

2000-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0007397v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.317:L57,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages. To appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03899.x

In this Letter, we use the recent Chandra observation of A2142 reported by Markevitch et al. to put constraints on thermal conduction in the intracluster plasma. We show that the observed sharp temperature gradient requires that classical conductivity has to be reduced at least by a factor of between 250 and 2500. The result provides a direct constraint on an important physical process relevant to the gas in the cores of clusters of galaxies.

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