X-ray observations of the mass and entropy distributions in nearby galaxy clusters
Abstract
I review some important aspects of the structural and statistical properties of the nearby X-ray galaxy cluster population, discussing the new constraints on mass profiles, the mass-temperature relation, and the entropy of the intracluster medium which have become available from recent X-ray observations.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2006
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0607199
- Bibcode:
- 2006astro.ph..7199P
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 4 figures. Invited review to appear in the proceedings of the XLIst Rencontres de Moriond, XXVIth Astrophysics Moriond Meeting: "From dark halos to light", Eds. L.Tresse, S. Maurogordato and J. Tran Thanh Van. Typos corrected, added references