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A note on Temperature Profiles of rich Clusters of Galaxies

Sabrina De Grandi, Silvano Molendi

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0407392

Abstract

We derive here the mean temperature profile for a sample of hot, medium distant clusters recently observed with XMM-Newton, whose profiles are available from the literature, and compare it with the mean temperature profile found from BeppoSAX data. The XMM-Newton and BeppoSAX profiles are in good agreement between 0.05 and 0.25 r180. From 0.25 to about 0.5 r180 both profiles decline, however the BeppoSAX profile does so much more rapidly than the XMM-Newton profile.

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