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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 403, Issue 2, Pages L29-L32Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030424
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galaxies : clusters : individual : Abell 85; X-rays : galaxies : clusters
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We have observed with XMM-Newton the extended 4 Mpc filament detected by the ROSAT PSPC in the neighbourhood of the cluster of galaxies Abell 85. We confirm that there is an extended feature, aligned at the same position angle as the major axis of the central cD, the bright cluster galaxies, and nearby groups and clusters. We find that the X-ray emission from the filament is best described by thermal emission with a temperature of similar to2 keV, which is significantly lower than the ambient cluster medium, but is significantly higher than anticipated for a gas in a weakly bound extended filament. It is not clear whether this is a filament of diffuse emission, a chain of several groups of galaxies, or stripped gas from the infalling south blob.
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