A re-assessment of the nearest neighbour alignment of the X-ray isophotes of galaxy clusters

dc.contributor.authorKoen, Chris
dc.contributor.authorLombard, Fred
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-20T07:14:13Z
dc.date.available2013-11-20T07:14:13Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractAlignment is defined as the tendency of the distribution of pointing angles between the major axes of clusters and their nearest neighbours to be more concentrated towards small values for small nearest neighbour distances, whereas the distribution is expected to be uniform over all angles at larger distances. Conflicting pronouncements on the reality of this effect have been published in the astronomy literature. A re-assessment of the evidence for alignment is presented, based on three recently published X-ray data sets. We find that whereas there is evidence for alignment, it is not as convincing as previously claimed. In particular, the scale to which the effect has been claimed to extend seems to have been severely overstated.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKoen, C. & Lombard, F. (2006). A re-assessment of the nearest neighbour alignment of the X-ray isophotes of galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 370(3):1324–1328en_US
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/842
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.rights© 2006 copyright Oxford University Press. This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is required
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10561.x
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectMethods: statisticalen_US
dc.subjectGalaxies: clusters, generalen_US
dc.subjectGalaxies: formation.en_US
dc.titleA re-assessment of the nearest neighbour alignment of the X-ray isophotes of galaxy clustersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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