2001/11/30 by S. Ettori, A. C. Fabian, S. W. Allen +1 · 26 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05212.x
published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.331:635,2002 · MNRAS in press. 15 pages
arxiv created 2001/11/30 · openalex publication_date 2002/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present X-ray spatial and spectral analysis of the <it>Chandra</it> data from the central <f><inline-fig> <link locator="331-3-635-eq007"></inline-fig></f> of the cluster of galaxies Abell 1795. The plasma temperature rises outwards by a factor of 3, whereas the iron abundance decreases by a factor of 4. The spatial distribution of oxygen, neon, sulphur, silicon and iron shows that supernovae Type Ia dominate the metal enrichment process of the cluster plasma within the inner 150 kpc. Resolving both the gas density and temperature in nine radial bins, we recover the gravitational mass density profile and show that it flattens within 100 kpc as <it>ρ</it><inf>DM</inf>∝<it>r</it>−0.6 with a power-law index flatter than −1 at >3<it>σ</it> level. The observed motion of the central galaxy and the presence of excesses and deficits along the north-south direction in the brightness distribution indicate that the central cluster region is not relaxed. In the absence of any non-gravitational heating source, the data from the inner ∼200 kpc indicate the presence of a cooling flow with an integrated mass deposition rate of about 100 M<inf>&odot;</inf> yr−1. Over the same cluster region, the observed rate of 74 M<inf>&odot;</inf> yr−1 is consistent with the recent <it>XMM-Newton</it> Reflection Grating Spectrometer limit of 150 M<inf>&odot;</inf> yr−1.