Celestial Origin of the Extended EUV Emission from the Abell 2199 and Abell 1795 Clusters of Galaxies

Details Celestial Origin of the Extended EUV Emission from the Abell 2199 and Abell 1795 Clusters of Galaxies Celestial Origin of the Extended EUV Emission from the Abell 2199 and Abell 1795 Clusters of Galaxies

1999-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905223v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 7 figures

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Several authors (S. Bowyer, T. Berghoeffer, and E. Korpela, hereinafter abbreviated as BBK) recently announced that the luminous extended EUV radiation from the clusters Abell 1795 and Abell 2199, which represents the large scale presence of a new and very soft emission component, is an illusion in the EUVE Deep Survey (DS) detector image. Specifically BBK found that the radial profile of photon background surface brightness, for concentric annuli centered at a detector position which has been used to observe cluster targets, shows an intrinsic `hump' of excess at small radii which resembles the detection of extended cluster EUV. We accordingly profiled background data, but found no evidence of significant central excess. However, to avoid argument concerning possible variability in the background pattern, we performed a clincher test which demonstrates that a cluster's EUV profile is invariant with respect to photon background. The test involves re-observation of A2199 and A1795 when the photon background was respectively three and two times higher than before, and using a different part of the detector. The radial profiles of both clusters, which have entirely different shapes, were accurately reproduced. In this way the BBK scenario is quantitatively excluded, with the inevitable conclusion that the detected signals are genuinely celestial.

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