Cooling flow catalog
The linked pages give the cooling flow catalog whose creation is described
in my article in the cooling flows conference proceedings. The table is
comprised of the following columns. The first column gives the cluster name.
HRI indicates that the data is from an HRI observation of the cluster in the
preceding line. The second, third and fourth columns list three of the more
important parameters assumed for the data analysis. The fifth and sixth
columns are the central cooling time and one sigma error. These are the
important numbers for determining whether the cluster has a cooling flow.
The next two columns give the radius at which the cooling time reaches
2 x 10^10 yrs (ignore the spurious accuracy on these numbers). The three
accretion rate columns are the 10, 50 and 90 percent quantiles from the
Monte Carlo error calculations. Note that negative numbers can arise and
these indicate that the cluster is still cooling out to the radius where the
data have large uncertainties. Finally, there are two columns giving
Rood-Sastry and Bautz-Morgan type and a final column that should be ignored.
Keith Arnaud
(kaa@genji.gsfc.nasa.gov)