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Hot Gas in Clusters of Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

J. L. Culhane
J. L. Culhane*
Affiliation:
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University CollegeLondon, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey, England.

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The discovery of extended X-ray sources associated with clusters of galaxies which resulted from the Uhuru X-ray sky survey was one of the most important observations to come from that programme. Following Uhuru, the Ariel V and HEAO-1 sky surveys have found many more cluster X-ray sources and the recently launched Einstein observatory has begun to increase further the number of identifications. However there is in any case evidence from the X-ray cluster luminosity function that all rich clusters of galaxies will emit X-rays at some level.

Preliminary results from the Einstein observatory (Murray, 1979) suggest that the extended X-ray emission from centrally condensed (cD) clusters is itself centrally condensed and spherically symmetrical in appearance. However irregular clusters have non-uniform X-ray surface brightness distributions. In addition there are some galaxies in clusters of irregular morphology that have associated X-ray halos.

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Joint Discussion
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 5: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XVIIth General Assembly of the IAU, 1979 , 1980 , pp. 387 - 396
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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