PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
Proposal Title | Measuring velocity structures in the Abell 3266 cluster |
Proposal Category | Galaxies, Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies and Superclusters |
Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
Proposal Id | 092188 |
Number of Observations | 8 |
Total exposure time (ks) | 784 |
PI DETAILS | |
PI | Dr. Efrain Gatuzz |
Institute | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) |
Country | GERMANY |
CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
Name | Country | |
J. Sanders | GERMANY | |
A. Fabian | UNITED KINGDOM | |
K. Dennerl | GERMANY | |
H. Russell | UNITED KINGDOM | |
D. Eckert | SWITZERLAND | |
S. Walker | UNITED STATES | |
C. Pinto | ITALY | |
J. Zuhone | UNITED STATES | |
A. Liu | GERMANY |
ABSTRACT | |
There are few direct measurements of the intracluster medium (ICM) velocity structure, despite its importance for understanding cluster physics. It has been shown that the EPIC-pn energy scale can be calibrated with the Cu Ka instrumental line to measure bulk flows of the ICM. Applying this technique, we have analyzed the velocity distribution of clusters involving AGN feedback (Virgo and Centaurus) and a relaxed system (Ophiuchus). We propose to observe the Galaxy cluster A3266 (total exposure time 784 ks), a well-known merging system made up of several subclusters, to produce high resolution maps of the velocity structure of the ICM. A3266 is an excellent target to investigate motions involving merging phenomena. |
PAPERS |
- CLASS 1: | papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations |
- CLASS 2: | papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis |
- CLASS 3: | further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base) |
- CLASS 4: | comments and suggestions from PI |
CLASS 1 (1 references) |
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