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astro-ph2004
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…
astro-ph2004
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…