Soft X-ray and extreme ultraviolet excess emission from clusters of galaxies
arXiv:0801.0977 · doi:10.1007/s11214-008-9313-8
Abstract
An excess over the extrapolation to the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray ranges of the thermal emission from the hot intracluster medium has been detected in a number of clusters of galaxies. We briefly present each of the satellites (EUVE, ROSAT PSPC and BeppoSAX, and presently XMM-Newton, Chandra and Suzaku) and their corresponding instrumental issues, which are responsible for the fact that this soft excess remains controversial in a number of cases. We then review the evidence for this soft X-ray excess and discuss the possible mechanisms (thermal and non-thermal) which could be responsible for this emission.
21 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Space Science Reviews, special issue "Clusters of galaxies: beyond the thermal view", Editor J.S. Kaastra, Chapter 4; work done by an international team at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, organised by J.S. Kaastra, A.M.Bykov, S. Schindler & J.A.M. Bleeker
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