| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | Measuring sloshing velocity structures in the Abell 2029 cluster |
| Proposal Category | Galaxies, Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies and Superclusters |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 094051 |
| Number of Observations | 8 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 748 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Dr. Efrain Gatuzz |
| Institute | 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 | |
| R. Mohapatra | UNITED STATES | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| There are few direct measurements of the intracluster medium (ICM) velocity structure, despite its importance for understanding cluster physics. In last years, it has been shown that the EPIC-pn energy scale can be calibrated with the Cu K$\alpha$ instrumental line to measure bulk flows of the ICM. Applying this technique, we have analyzed the velocity distribution of the Virgo, Centaurus, Ophiuchus and A3266 galaxy clusters. We propose to observe the Galaxy cluster A2029 (total exposure time 748~ks), a well-know relaxed cooling core cluster with signatures of a gas sloshing structure, to produce high resolution maps of the velocity structure of the ICM in the cluster core. Such analysis constitutes an excellent opportunity to understand the heating/cooling physical processes of such a system. | |
| 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 |