The Coma Cluster hard X - ray spectrum revisited : still no evidence for a hard tail
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In this note, we reply to Fusco-Femiano et al. 2004 (FF04) and Fusco-Femiano et al. 2006 (FF06), who cast doubts on our analysis of the PDS observations of the Coma Cluster which we describe in Rossetti & Molendi 2004 (RM04). We discuss the main issues in FF06 and we confirm that the available data do not allow to firmly establish the presence of a non-thermal component in the hard X-ray spectrum of the Coma cluster.
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