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M. W. Bautz, F. K. Baganoff, C. R. Canizares, M. R. Malm, G. R. Ricker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), D. Lumb (ESTEC), G. P. Garmire (Pennsylvania State University)
We present a deep (90 ksec) Chandra image of Abell 370, a strongly lensing galaxy cluster at redshift z=0.37. The observed X-ray surface brightness distribution and temperature of the cluster core (r < 30 arcsec) are compared to predictions of alternative mass models derived from the optical lensing data. Limits on the X-ray luminosity of the strongly-lensed background galaxies are presented. This work was supported by NASA through contract NAS-8-37716.
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