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Cold fronts in cool core clusters
S. Ghizzardi, S. Molendi, M. Rossetti +1
Cold fronts have been detected both in merging and in cool core clusters, where little or no sign of a merging event is present. A systematic search of sharp surface brightness dis…
A cluster in a crowded environment: XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of A3558
M. Rossetti, S. Ghizzardi, S. Molendi +1
Combining XMM-Newton and Chandra data, we have performed a detailed study of Abell 3558. Our analysis shows that its dynamical history is more complicated than previously thought.…
Searching for Sharp Surface Brightness Discontinuities: a Systematic Study of Cold Fronts in Galaxy Clusters
S. Ghizzardi, S. Molendi, A. Leccardi +1
We perform a systematic search of cold fronts in a sample of 62 clusters observed with XMM-Newton with redshift ranging from 0.01 to 0.3. We detect one or more cold fronts in 21 (3…
Radiative cooling, heating and thermal conduction in M87
Simona Ghizzardi, Silvano Molendi, Fabio Pizzolato +1
The crisis of the standard cooling flow model brought about by Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of galaxy clusters, has led to the development of several models which explore di…
SMAUG: a new technique for the deprojection of galaxy clusters
F. Pizzolato, S. Molendi, S. Ghizzardi +1
This paper presents a new technique for reconstructing the spatial distributions of hydrogen, temperature and metal abundance of a galaxy cluster. These quantities are worked out f…
Status of the EPIC/MOS calibration
P. Ferrando, A. F. Abbey, B. Altieri +16
The XMM-Newton observatory has the largest collecting area flown so far for an X-ray imaging system, resulting in a very high sensitivity over a broad spectral range. In order to e…
The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The MOS Cameras
M. J. L. Turner, A. Abbey, M. Arnaud
The EPIC focal plane imaging spectrometers on XMM-Newton use CCDs to record the images and spectra of celestial X-ray sources focused by the three X-ray mirrors. There is one camer…
XMM- Newton Observation of the Coma Galaxy Cluster: The temperature structure in the central region
M. Arnaud, N. Aghanim, R. Gastaud +8
We present a temperature map and a temperature profile of the central part (r < 20' or 1/4 virial radius) of the Coma cluster. We combined 5 overlapping pointings made with XMM/EPI…
XMM-Newton First-Light Observations of the Hickson Galaxy Group 16
M. J. L. Turner, J. N. Reeves, T. J. Ponman +7
This paper presents the XMM-Newton first-light observations of the Hickson-16 compact group of galaxies. Groups are possibly the oldest large-scale structures in the Universe, pre-…