1. Mass and gas profiles in A1689: joint X-ray and lensing analysis.
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Lemze, Doron, Barkana, Rennan, Broadhurst, Tom J., and Rephaeli, Yoel
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X-rays , *LENSES , *COAL gas , *MASS (Physics) , *TEMPERATURE , *ENTROPY , *CLUSTER analysis (Statistics) - Abstract
We carry out a comprehensive joint analysis of high-quality HST/ACS and Chandra measurements of A1689, from which we derive mass, temperature, X-ray emission and abundance profiles. The X-ray emission is smooth and symmetric, and the lensing mass is centrally concentrated indicating a relaxed cluster. Assuming hydrostatic equilibrium we deduce a 3D mass profile that agrees simultaneously with both the lensing and X-ray measurements. However, the projected temperature profile predicted with this 3D mass profile exceeds the observed temperature by ∼30 per cent at all radii, a level of discrepancy comparable to the level found for other relaxed clusters. This result may support recent suggestions from hydrodynamical simulations that denser, more X-ray luminous small-scale structure can bias observed temperature measurements downward at about the same (∼30 per cent) level. We determine the gas entropy at (where rvir is the virial radius) to be ∼800 keV cm2, as expected for a high-temperature cluster, but its profile at has a power-law form with index ∼0.8, considerably shallower than the ∼1.1 index advocated by theoretical studies and simulations. Moreover, if a constant entropy ‘floor’ exists at all, then it is within a small region in the inner core, , in accord with previous theoretical studies of massive clusters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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