4 papers
X-ray Spectroscopy of Cooling Clusters
J. R. Peterson, A. C. Fabian
We review the X-ray spectra of the cores of clusters of galaxies. Recent high resolution X-ray spectroscopic observations have demonstrated a severe deficit of emission at the lowe…
Multivariate Monte Carlo Methods for the Reflection Grating Spectrometers on XMM-Newton
J. R. Peterson, J. G. Jernigan, S. M. Kahn
We propose a novel multivariate Monte Carlo method as an efficient and flexible approach to analyzing extended X-ray sources with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) on XMM N…
X-ray spectroscopy on Abell 478 with XMM-Newton
J. de Plaa, J. S. Kaastra, T. Tamura +3
We report the results from a spatially resolved spectroscopy study with XMM-Newton on the relaxed cluster of galaxies Abell 478. From the EPIC data we extract a temperature profile…
High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopic Constraints on Cooling-Flow Models for Clusters of Galaxies
J. R. Peterson, S. M. Kahn, F. B. S. Paerels +5
We present high resolution X-ray spectra of 14 putative cooling-flow clusters of galaxies obtained with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer on XMM-Newton. The clusters in the sampl…