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J. Patrick Henry

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arXiv2004

XMM-Newton EPIC Observation of the Galaxy Cluster A3667

The Abell cluster of galaxies A3667 was observed with XMM-Newton in 6 partially overlapping pointings. We present here the resulting X-ray surface brightness, temperature, entropy and pressure maps and discuss the structure of this cluster on scales from 0.1 to 30 arcminutes. Based on these observations we refine the origin of the A3667 cold front to the displacement of the low entropy, high metal abundance gas from the current pressure peak of the cluster. We argue that the mushroom shape of the cold front observed here is similar to what is seen in some numerical simulations. We also present the first evidence for a dynamically significant angular momentum in the cold front.

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arXiv2004

X-ray Temperatures for the EMSS High Redshift Cluster Sample: Constraints on Cosmology and the Dark Energy Equation of State

We measure the X-ray temperature (and luminosity) with ASCA of all but one cluster in the Einstein Extended Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) high redshift (z > 0.3) sample. We compare these data to a complete sample of low redshift clusters that also has temperature measurements, thereby providing cosmological constraints. We incorporate many improvements over our previous work. We find an allowed band in the Omega_{m0} - Omega_{Lambda0} plane of different orientation to the band of constraints provided by the supernovae Ia Hubble diagram and the cosmic microwave background fluctuations. All three bands intersect at the same place: Omega_{m0} ~ 0.3, Omega_{Lambda0} ~ 0.7. We measure the quintessence equation of state parameter to be w = -(0.42 pm 0.21) (68% confidence for 1 interesting parameter), consistent with previously determined upper limits. We measure the normalization of the mass fluctuation power spectrum to be sigms_8 = 0.66 pm 0.16 (68% confidence for 3 interesting parameters). Systematic errors are larger than the statistical errors only for sigma_8 with our sample, thus the errors for it depends on the details of the marginalization over the temperature - mass normalization.

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arXiv2002

The Evolution of the Galaxy Cluster Luminosity-Temperature Relation

We analyzed the luminosity-temperature (L-T) relation for 2 samples of galaxy clusters which have all been observed by the ASCA satellite. We used 32 high redshift clusters (0.3<z<0.6), 53 low redshift clusters (z<0.3), and also the combination of the low and high redshift datasets. We assumed a power law relation between the bolometric luminosity of the galaxy cluster and its integrated temperature and redshift (L_{bol,44}=C*T^alpha*(1+z)^A). The results are consistent, independent of cosmology, with previous estimates of L$\sim$T$^3$ found by other authors. We observed weak or zero evolution.

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arXiv2002

Evolution of the X-ray Properties of Clusters of Galaxies

The amount and nature of the evolution of the X-ray properties of clusters of galaxies provides information on the formation of structure in the universe and on the properties of the universe itself. The cluster luminosity - temperature relation does not evolve strongly, suggesting that the hot X-ray gas had a more complicated thermodynamic history than simply collapsing into the cluster potential well. Cluster X-ray luminosities do evolve. The dependence of this evolution on redshift and luminosity is characterized using two large high redshift samples. Cluster X-ray temperatures also evolve. This evolution constrains the dark matter and dark energy content of the universe as well as other parameters of cosmological interest.

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arXiv2001

X-ray Properties of High Redshift Clusters

We describe the ensemble X-ray properties of high redshift clusters with emphasis on changes with respect to the local population. Cluster X-ray luminosity evolution is detected in five nearly independent surveys. The relevant issue now is characterizing this evolution. Cluster temperature evolution provides constraints on the dark matter and dark energy content of the universe. These constraints are complementary to and in agreement with those of the cosmic microwave background and supernovae, showing that the present universe is dominated by a dark energy. X-ray images show that most z > 0.75 clusters are not relaxed, hinting that the cluster formation epoch is z ~ 1.

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arXiv2001

Cluster X-ray Luminosity Evolution

Whether the X-ray luminosities of clusters of galaxies evolve has been a contentious issue for over ten years. However, the data available to address this issue have improved dramatically as cluster surveys from the ROSAT archive near completion. There are now three samples of nearby clusters and seven distant cluster samples. We present a uniform analysis of four of the distant cluster samples. Each exhibits highly statistically significant luminosity evolution. We combine three of these samples to measure the high redshift cluster X-ray luminosity function with good statistics that shows the nature of the evolution.

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arXiv2000

A Mosaic of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies with XMM-Newton

The Coma cluster of galaxies was observed with XMM-Newton in 12 partially overlapping pointings. We present here the resulting X-ray map in different energy bands and discuss the large scale structure of this cluster. Many point sources were found throughout the observed area, at least 11 of them are coincident with bright galaxies. We also give a hardness ratio map at the so far highest angular resolution obtained for a cluster of galaxies. In this map we found soft regions at the position of bright galaxies, little variation in the central 15 arcmin, but some harder regions north of the line NGC 4874 - NGC 4889.

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arXiv2000

Measuring Cosmological Parameters from the Evolution of Cluster X-ray Temperatures

We have determined the cluster X-ray temperature function from two flux- and redshift-limited samples of clusters. The first sample is comprised of 25 clusters with average redshift 0.05. The local temperature function derived from it supercedes the one we previously published. Fourteen clusters with average redshift 0.38 comprise the second sample. We perform maximum likelihood fits of cluster evolution models to these data in order to constrain cosmological parameters. For an open model with zero cosmological constant we find that the density parameter is Omega_0 = 0.49+/-0.12, the rms mass density fluctuation averaged over 8 h-1 Mpc spheres is sigma_8 = 0.72+/-0.10, and the effective index of the mass density fluctuation spectrum on cluster scales is n = -(1.72+/-0.34) where all errors are symmetrized at 68% confidence. The corresponding results for the case where a cosmological constant produces a flat universe are : 0.44+/-0.12, 0.77+/-0.15, and -(1.68+/-0.38). These results agree with those determined from a variety of different independent methods, including supernovae, galaxy-galaxy correlations, fluctuations in the microwave background, gravitational lens statistics, and cluster peculiar velocities.

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arXiv2000

MACS: The evolution and properties of massive clusters of galaxies

We present first results from the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS), a new large-scale X-ray survey designed to find and characterize very massive, distant clusters of galaxies. Based on X-ray detections in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, MACS aims to compile a sample of more than 200 X-ray luminous clusters at z>0.3, about 50 times the number of EMSS clusters in the same redshift and luminosity range. The MACS sample is uniquely suited to investigate cluster evolution at redshifts and luminosities poorly sampled by all existing surveys. At the time of writing the MACS sample comprises 41 clusters with measured redshifts of 0.3 0.3 are scheduled for spectroscopic observation. From a preliminary analysis of a statistically well defined subsample of the 25 X-ray brightest MACS clusters we conclude tentatively that negative evolution is not significant at the highest X-ray luminosities (Lx>10^45 erg/s) out to redshifts of z~0.4. Our findings thus extend the no-evolution result obtained by many serendipitous ROSAT cluster surveys at lower luminosities.

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arXiv1997

An X-ray Temperature Map of Coma

We present an X-ray temperature map of the Coma cluster of galaxies obtained with the ROSAT PSPC. As expected from the X-ray surface brightness distribution the intracluster gas of Coma is not isothermal. The temperature structure resembles a bow shock of hot gas produced by the passage of the subcluster around NGC 4839 through the main cluster, confirming hydrodynamical simulations.

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arXiv1995

Mixed Dark Matter Model in Halos of Clusters

We discuss the structure of clusters in a class of flat cosmological models with the fraction of mass Ω_{CDM} ~0.8 in cold dark matter, and the rest in hot dark matter in the form of massive neutrinos. We consider such Cold+Hot Dark Matter (CHDM) models with one, two or three massive neutrinos, with total mass ~4.6eV. Neutrinos of such low mass cannot constitute halos of galaxies and groups, but only of clusters of galaxies. The limit on the density of neutrinos in the central parts of galaxy clusters is estimated from the phase space den- sity constraints. The ratio of the neutrino density to that of CDM through the cluster is found analytically. It appears that the density of neutrinos is suppressed within the Abell radius. However, neutrinos contribute ~20% of the mass density to the cluster halo. Our numerical simulations match analytical results. The simulations indicate that the cluster halo dark matter density profile has the power-law slope ~-2.5 which is close to that in the model with cosmological constant. We also found that in the CHDM models the velocity dispersion is almost constant across the cluster. This is quite different from the model with cosmological constant or the open model where the velocity dispersion falls in the cluster outskirts. We discuss X-ray emission and weak gravitational lensing by clusters in the model. We input the found spherically symmetrical fit to the CHDM mass density profile and the X-ray surface brightness for the cluster A2256 into simple equation of hydrostatic equilibrium of the hot gas. X-ray temperature derived this way departures from both the data and actual prediction of the model, which give almost constant temperature. We found also that the problem of high baryonic fraction in clusters is not resolved in the CHDM models.

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