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

Technical Report · Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/815650· OSTI ID:815650

Lau, Travis

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.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 815650
• Report Number(s): SLAC-TN-03-020; TRN: US200319%%474
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 5 Sep 2003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
DISTRIBUTION
GALAXY CLUSTERS
GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS
HYDROSTATICS
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
UNIVERSE