Description
In this paper we present an X-ray image deprojection analysis of Einstein Observatory imaging data on 207 clusters of galaxies. The resulting radial profiles for luminosity, temperature and electron density variations are determined from the cluster surface-brightness profiles according to gravitational potential constraints from average X-ray temperatures and optical velocity dispersions. This enables us to determine cooling flow and other cluster properties, such as baryon fractions, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich microwave decrements and Thomson depths. From the results we have compiled a catalogue of the detected cooling flows, and investigated their effects on general cluster properties.
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