Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998tx19.confe.517i&link_type=abstract
Abstracts of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, held in Paris, France, Dec. 14-18, 1998. Eds.:
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
We use ROSAT PSPC data to obtain X-ray color profiles for 26 clusters, most of which have had their temperature profiles determined by ASCA. Our aim is not to measure the actual temperature values of the clusters, but to use X-ray color profiles to search for a trend in hardness of the spectra with radius for comparison to ASCA-derived profiles. The radial color profiles indicate that outside of the cooling flow region, the temperature profiles are in general constant. Within 35% of the virial radius, we find a temperature drop of 20% at 10 keV and 12% at 5 keV can be ruled out at the 99% confidence level. The colors predicted from the temperature profiles of a series of hydrodynamical cluster simulations match the data very well, although they cannot be used to discriminate among different cosmologies. An additional result is that the color profiles show evidence for a central peak in metallicity in low temperature clusters.
Bregman Joel N.
Irwin Jimmy A.
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