Abstract The combination of the large effective area and the very low internal background of the ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter provides an extremely sensitive instrument for the study of diffuse X-ray sources. In this paper we review new results on the X-ray structure of nearby clusters as measured with ROSAT. Substructure is a common feature in these objects. Such structure provides evidence that clusters have formed relatively recently through mergers of relatively large subunits. This behavior is predicted by hierarchical formation theories in a dense universe.
The X-ray structure of nearby galaxy clusters
Advances in Space Research ; 13 , 12 ; 191-198
1993-01-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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