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Description
This table, the Archive of Chandra Cluster Entropy Profile Tables (ACCEPT) Catalog, contains the radial entropy profiles of the intracluster medium (ICM) for a collection of 239 clusters taken from the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Data Archive. Entropy is of great interest because it controls ICM global properties and records the thermal history of a cluster. The authors find that most ICM entropy profiles are well fitted by a model which is a power law at large radii and approaches a constant value at small radii: K(r) = K<sub>0</sub> + K<sub>100</sub> (r/100 kpc)<sup>alpha</sup>, where K<sub>0</sub> quantifies the typical excess of core entropy above the best-fitting power law found at larger radii. The authors also show that the K<sub>0</sub> distributions of both the full archival sample and the primary Highest X-Ray Flux Galaxy Cluster Sample of Reiprich (2001, Ph.D. thesis) are bimodal with a distinct gap between K<sub>0</sub> ~ 30 - 50 keV cm<sup>2</sup> and population peaks at K<sub>0</sub> ~ 15 keV cm<sup>2</sup> and K<sub>0</sub> ~ 150 keV cm<sup>2</sup>. The effects of point-spread function smearing and angular resolution on best-fit K<sub>0</sub> values are investigated using mock Chandra observations and degraded entropy profiles, respectively. The authors find that neither of these effects is sufficient to explain the entropy-profile flattening they measure at small radii. The influence of profile curvature and the number of radial bins on the best-fit K<sub>0</sub> is also considered, and they find no indication that K<sub>0</sub> is significantly impacted by either. All data and results associated with this work are publicly available via the project web site <a href="http://www.pa.msu.edu/astro/MC2/accept/">http://www.pa.msu.edu/astro/MC2/accept/</a>. The sample is collected from observations taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and which were publicly available in the CDA (Chandra Data Archive) as of 2008 August. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJS/182/12">CDS Catalog J/ApJS/182/12</a> files table1.dat and table5.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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