Modeling Chandra X-ray observations of Galaxy Clusters using Cosmological Simulations
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1 Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 130-33, Pasadena, CA 91125 [email protected] 2 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, KICP, & EFI, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 3 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 4 Space Research Institute, 8432 Profsojuznaya St., GSP-7, Moscow 117997, Russia
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