A note on temperature profiles of rich clusters of galaxies

We derive here the mean temperature profile for a sample of hot, medium distant clusters recently observed with XMM-Newton, whose profiles are available from the literature, and compare it with the mean temperature profile found from BeppoSAX data. The XMM-Newton and BeppoSAX profiles are in good agreement between 0.05 and 0.25 r₁₈₀. From 0.25 to about 0.5 r₁₈₀ both profiles decline; however the BeppoSAX profile does so much more rapidly than the XMM-Newton profile.