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X-ray observations of the mass and entropy distributions in nearby galaxy clusters

G. W. Pratt

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0607199

Abstract

I review some important aspects of the structural and statistical properties of the nearby X-ray galaxy cluster population, discussing the new constraints on mass profiles, the mass-temperature relation, and the entropy of the intracluster medium which have become available from recent X-ray observations.

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