Soft X-ray and extreme ultraviolet excess emission from clusters of galaxies

F. Durret; J.S. Kaastra; J. Nevalainen; T. Ohashi; N. Werner

Soft X-ray and extreme ultraviolet excess emission from clusters of galaxies

F. Durret, J.S. Kaastra, J. Nevalainen, T. Ohashi, N. Werner

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Abstract

An excess over the extrapolation to the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray ranges of the thermal emission from the hot intracluster medium has been detected in a number of clusters of galaxies. We briefly present each of the satellites (EUVE, ROSAT PSPC and BeppoSAX, and presently XMM-Newton, Chandra and Suzaku) and their corresponding instrumental issues, which are responsible for the fact that this soft excess remains controversial in a number of cases. We then review the evidence for this soft X-ray excess and discuss the possible mechanisms (thermal and non-thermal) which could be responsible for this emission.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)	51-70
Number of pages	20
Journal	Space Science Reviews
Volume	134
Issue number	1-4
Publication status	Published - 2008

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