THERMODYNAMICS OF THE COMA CLUSTER OUTSKIRTS

A Deep VLA Radio Continuum Survey of the Core and Outskirts of the Coma Cluster

We present deep 1.4 GHz Very Large Array (VLA) radio continuum observations of two ∼half square degree fields in the Coma cluster of galaxies. The two fields, “Coma 1” and “Coma 3,” correspond to the cluster core and southwest infall region and were selected on account of abundant pre-existing multiwavelength data. In their most sensitive regions the radio data reach 22 μJy rms per 4. 4 beam, s...

On the Lack of Strong O-line Excess in the Coma Cluster Outskirts from Suzaku

About half of the baryons in the local Universe are thought to reside in the so-called warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) at temperatures of 0.1-10 million K. Thermal soft excess emission in the spectrum of some cluster outskirts that contains OVII and/or OVIII emission lines is regarded as evidence of the WHIM, although the origin of the lines is controversial due to strong Galactic and sola...

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Beppo-SAX OBSERVATION OF THE COMA CLUSTER

We present first results of the BeppoSAX observation of the Coma Cluster. Thanks to the unprecedented sensitivity of the PDS instrument, the source has been detected up to ∼80 keV. There is clear evidence for emission in excess to the thermal one above ∼25 keV, very likely of non-thermal origin. We have therefore, for the first time, detected the long sought Inverse Compton emission on CMB phot...

Infrared Luminosity Function of the Coma Cluster

Using mid-IR and optical data, we deduce the total infrared (IR) luminosities of galaxies in the Coma cluster and present their infrared luminosity function (LF). The shape of the overall Coma IR LF does not show significant differences from the IR LFs of the general field, which indicates the general independence of global galaxy star formation on environment up to densities ∼ 40 times greater...