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The X-ray Fundamental Plane of Clusters of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Yutaka. Fujita*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Osawa 2-21-1, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan

Abstract

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We analyze the relations among the central gas density, core radius, and temperature of X-ray clusters by plotting the observational data in the three-dimensional (log ρgas,0, log rc, and log Tgas) space and find that the data lie on a ‘fundamental plane’. We discuss the implications of the plane.

Type
Part XII: Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2005 

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