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Title: Mass Profile of Abell 2204 An X-Ray Analysis of Abell 2204 using XMM-Newton Data

Abstract

The vast majority of the matter in the universe is of an unknown type. This matter is called dark matter by astronomers. The dark matter manifests itself only through gravitational interaction and is otherwise undetectable. The distribution of this matter in can be better understood by studying the mass profile of galaxy clusters. The X-ray emissions of the galaxy cluster Abell 2204 were analyzed using archived data from the XMM-Newton space telescope. We analyze a 40ks observation of Abell 2204 and present a radial temperature and radial mass profile based on hydrostatic equilibrium calculations.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (US)
OSTI Identifier:
815650
Report Number(s):
SLAC-TN-03-020
TRN: US200319%%474
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 5 Sep 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; DISTRIBUTION; GALAXY CLUSTERS; GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS; HYDROSTATICS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; UNIVERSE

Citation Formats

Lau, Travis. Mass Profile of Abell 2204 An X-Ray Analysis of Abell 2204 using XMM-Newton Data. United States: N. p., 2003. Web. doi:10.2172/815650.
Lau, Travis. Mass Profile of Abell 2204 An X-Ray Analysis of Abell 2204 using XMM-Newton Data. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/815650
Lau, Travis. 2003. "Mass Profile of Abell 2204 An X-Ray Analysis of Abell 2204 using XMM-Newton Data". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/815650. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/815650.
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title = {Mass Profile of Abell 2204 An X-Ray Analysis of Abell 2204 using XMM-Newton Data},
author = {Lau, Travis},
abstractNote = {The vast majority of the matter in the universe is of an unknown type. This matter is called dark matter by astronomers. The dark matter manifests itself only through gravitational interaction and is otherwise undetectable. The distribution of this matter in can be better understood by studying the mass profile of galaxy clusters. The X-ray emissions of the galaxy cluster Abell 2204 were analyzed using archived data from the XMM-Newton space telescope. We analyze a 40ks observation of Abell 2204 and present a radial temperature and radial mass profile based on hydrostatic equilibrium calculations.},
doi = {10.2172/815650},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/815650}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2003},
month = {Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2003}
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