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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 426, Issue 2, Pages 387-397Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041039
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X-rays : galaxies : clusters; galaxies : clusters : general; cosmology : theory; turbulence
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Spatially-resolved gas pressure maps of the Coma galaxy cluster are obtained from a mosaic of XMM-Newton observations in the scale range between a resolution of 20 kpc and an extent of 2.8 Mpc. A Fourier analysis of the data reveals the presence of a scale-invariant pressure fluctuation spectrum in the range between 40 and 90 kpc and is found to be well described by a projected Kolmogorov/Oboukhov-type turbulence spectrum. Deprojection and integration of the spectrum yields the lower limit of similar to10 percent of the total intracluster medium pressure in turbulent form. The results also provide observational constraints on the viscosity of the gas.
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