Supermodel Analysis of the Hard X-Ray Excess in the Coma Cluster

Abstract

The Supermodel provides an accurate description of the thermal contribution by the hot intracluster plasma which is crucial for the analysis of the hard excess. In this paper the thermal emissivity in the Coma cluster is derived starting from the intracluster gas temperature and density profiles obtained by the Supermodel analysis of X-ray observables: the XMM-Newton temperature profile and the Rosat brightness distribution. The Supermodel analysis of the BeppoSAX/PDS hard X-ray spectrum confirms our previous results, namely an excess at the c.l. of ~4.8sigma and a nonthermal flux of 1.30+-0.40x 10^-11 erg cm^-2 s^-1 in the energy range 20-80 keV. A recent joint XMM-Newton/Suzaku analysis reports an upper limit of ~6x10^-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1 in the energy range 20-80 keV for the nonthermal flux with an average gas temperature of 8.45+-0.06 keV, and an excess of nonthermal radiation at a confidence level above 4sigma, without including systematic effects, for an average XMM-Newton temperature of 8.2 keV in the Suzaku/HXD-PIN FOV, in agreement with our earlier PDS analysis. Here we present a further evidence of the compatibility between the Suzaku and BeppoSAX spectra, obtained by our Supermodel analysis of the PDS data, when the smaller size of the HXD-PIN FOV and the two different average temperatures derived by XMM-Newton and by the joint XMM-Newton/Suzaku analysis are taken into account. The consistency of the PDS and HXD-PIN spectra reaffirms the presence of a nonthermal component in the hard X-ray spectrum of the Coma cluster. The Supermodel analysis of the PDS data reports an excess at c.l. above 4sigma also for the higher average temperature of 8.45 keV thanks to the PDS FOV considerably greater than the HXD-PIN FOV.

18 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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