2001MNRAS.322..187E

Query : 2001MNRAS.322..187E

2001MNRAS.322..187E - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 322, 187-194 (2001/March-3)

BeppoSAX observations of three distant, highly luminous clusters of galaxies: RX J1347-1145, Zwicky 3146 and Abell 2390.

ETTORI S., ALLEN S.W. and FABIAN A.C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present an analysis of BeppoSAX observations of three clusters of galaxies that are amongst the most luminous in the Universe: RXJ1347-1145, Zwicky 3146 and Abell 2390. Using data from both the Low Energy (LECS) and Medium Energy (MECS) Concentrator Spectrometers, and a joint analysis with the Phoswich Detection System (PDS) data above 10keV, we constrain, with a relative uncertainty of between 7 and 42per cent (90per cent confidence level), the mean gas temperature in the three clusters. These measurements are checked against any possible non-thermal contribution to the plasma emission and are shown to be robust.

We confirm that RXJ1347-1145 has a gas temperature that lies in the range between 13.2 and 22.3keV at the 90per cent confidence level, and is larger than 12.1keV at 3σ level. The existence of such a hot galaxy cluster at redshift of about 0.45 implies an upper limit on the mean mass density in the Universe, Ωm, of 0.5.

Combining the BeppoSAX estimates for gas temperature and luminosity of the three clusters presented in this work with ASCA measurements available in the literature, we obtain a slope of 2.7 in the L-T relation once the physical properties are corrected from the contamination from the central cooling flows.


Abstract Copyright: 2001, Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: clusters: general - galaxies: clusters: individual: Abell 2390 - galaxies: clusters: individual: RX J1347-1145 - galaxies: clusters: individual: Zwicky 3146 - X-rays: galaxies - X-rays: galaxies: clusters

Simbad objects: 11

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Number of rows : 11
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 ACO 478 ClG 04 13 24.8 +10 27 52           ~ 522 0
2 ZwCl 1021+0426 ClG 10 23 39.0 +04 11 14   15.6 17.95     ~ 297 0
3 3C 273 BLL 12 29 06.6998257176 +02 03 08.597629980   13.05 14.830 14.11   ~ 6022 1
4 ACO 1736 ClG 13 26 52.1 -27 06 33           ~ 268 2
5 ClG J1347-1145 ClG 13 47 30.5 -11 45 07           ~ 577 0
6 ACO 1795 ClG 13 48 47.4 +26 34 55           ~ 1330 0
7 ACO 2029 ClG 15 10 54.2 +05 44 23           ~ 1020 0
8 ACO 2142 ClG 15 58 26.5 +27 13 52           ~ 825 0
9 ACO 2319 ClG 19 21 14.0 +43 56 57           ~ 495 1
10 ACO 2390 ClG 21 53 37.4 +17 41 46           ~ 732 2
11 ACO 2657 ClG 23 44 51.0 +09 08 40           ~ 280 3

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