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2004ApJ...611..175I - Astrophys. J., 611, 175-185 (2004/August-2)

X-ray measurement of dark matter ``Temperature'' in A1795.

IKEBE Y., BOHRINGER H. and KITAYAMA T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a method from an X-ray observation of a galaxy cluster to measure the radial profile of the dark matter velocity dispersion, σDM, and to compare the dark matter ``temperature'' defined as µmpσ2DM/kB with the gas temperature. The method is applied to the XMM-Newton observation of A1795. The ratio between the specific energy of the dark matter and that of the intracluster medium (ICM), which can be defined as βDMin analogy with βspec, is found to be less than unity everywhere, ranging ∼0.3-0.8. In other words, the ICM temperature is higher than the dark matter ``temperature'', even in the central region where the radiative cooling time is short. A βDM value smaller than unity can most naturally be explained by heating of the ICM. The excess energy of the ICM is estimated to be ∼1-3 keV per particle.

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Journal keyword(s): Cosmology: Dark Matter - Galaxies: Clusters: General - X-Rays: Galaxies: Clusters

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