Investigation of Properties of the Intercluster Medium Rich Clusters of Galaxies
The statistical analysis of properties of 213 rich clusters of galaxies is performed. The existence of correlations between the X-ray luminosity and the temperature of the intracluster medium and between the X-ray luminosity and the velocity dispersion of the galaxies is confirmed. New anti-correlation between optical luminosities L_Halpha and x-ray luminosities L_x of intracluster gas in clusters is discovered: log(L_Halpha/L_Sun)=a-b(log(L_x/L_Sun)). The existence of sequences in the log(L_Halpha/L_Sun)-log(L_x/L_Sun) plane testifies to that the masses of the intracluster gas in different clusters can differ significantly.
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