Einstein Observatory evidence for the widespread baryon overdensity in clusters of galaxies,

Details Einstein Observatory evidence for the widespread baryon overdensity in clusters of galaxies, Einstein Observatory evidence for the widespread baryon overdensity in clusters of galaxies,

1995-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9502092v1

M.N.R.A.S. 273, p. 73 (1995).

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We analyse the X-ray surface brightness profiles of 19 moderately distant and luminous clusters of galaxies observed with the \EINOBS. Our aim is to determine cluster gas masses out to radii between 1 and $3\Mpc$, and to confirm the apparent conflict, if $\Omega_0=1$, between the current calculations of the mean baryon fraction of the Universe expected from standard primordial nucleosynthesis, and the fraction of the mass in clusters which is in gas. Our analysis shows that baryon overdensities in clusters are much more widespread than only the Coma cluster with which S.~White \& Frenk originally highlighted this problem. The uncertainties involved in our analysis and some cosmological implications from our results are briefly discussed. For a refined sample of 13 clusters we find that the baryon fraction for the gas within $1\Mpc$ lies between 10 and 22 per cent.

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