Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-07-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in A&A main Journal
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:200810138
We employ a long XMM-Newton observation of the core of the Perseus cluster to validate claims of a non-thermal component discovered with Chandra. From a meticulous analysis of our dataset, which includes a detailed treatment of systematic errors, we find the 2-10 keV surface brightness of the non-thermal component to be smaller than about 5x10^-16 erg cm^-2s^-1arcsec^-2. The most likely explanation for the discrepancy between the XMM-Newton and Chandra estimates is a problem in the effective area calibration of the latter. Our EPIC based magnetic field lower limits are not in disagreement with Faraday rotation measure estimates on a few cool cores and with a minimum energy estimate on Perseus. In the not too distant future Simbol-X may allow detection of non-thermal components with intensities more than 10 times smaller than those that can be measured with EPIC; nonetheless even the exquisite sensitivity within reach for Simbol-X might be insufficient to detect the IC emission from Perseus.
Gastaldello Fabio
Molendi Silvano
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