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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 2.X-RAY SPECTRA OF HOT TENUOUS
PLASMA
- 3.THE STUDY OF THE THERMAL STRUCTURE
OF THE INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM
- 3.1.Cluster Mass
Determination
- 3.2.Fossil Record of Structure and
Galaxy Formation in the ICM Thermal Structure
- 3.3.At and beyond the virial
radius
- 3.4.Diagnostics of Cluster
Mergers
- 3.5.Observational Studies of
Turbulence of the ICM
4.AGN HEATED CLUSTER COOL CORES
5.WHAT CHEMICAL ABUNDANCE
MEASUREMENTS TELL US
5.1.Early pioneering work on
chemical abundances
5.2.Chemical enrichment in
cooling core clusters
5.3.Constraining supernova
models using clusters
5.4.Metallicity evolution and
differences between clusters
5.5.How good are the assumptions
behind the abundance measurements?
6.BEYOND THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM
6.1.Multiphase plasma
6.2.Shocks and
non-equilibrium
6.3.Non-thermal X-ray emission
from relativistic plasma
7.FUTURE POTENTIAL OF X-RAY
SPECTROSCOPY
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