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Czech Technical University, Prague, Acta Polytechnica, 1(51), 2011

DOI: 10.14311/1328

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XMM Observations of Metal Abundances in Galaxy Clusters

Journal article published in 2011 by Lorenzo Lovisari ORCID, S. Schindler, W. Kapferer
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The hot gas that fills the space between galaxies in clusters is rich in metals. Due to their large potential well, galaxy clusters accumulate metals over the whole history of the cluster, and retain important information on cluster formation and evolution.We derive detailed metallicity maps for a sample of 5 clusters, observed with XMM-Newton, to study the distribution of metals in the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM). We show that even in relaxed clusters the distribution of metals shows many inhomogeneities with several maxima separated by low metallicity regions. We also found a deviation from the expected temperature-metallicity relation.