Soft X-Ray Emission from Clusters of Galaxies and Related Phenomena

Contributing authors Preface Part I The Cluster soft excess The extreme ultraviolet excess emission in five clusters of galaxies revisited Florence Durret, Eric Slezak, Richard Lieu, Sergio Dos Santos, Massimiliano Bonamente Soft (1 keV) X-ray emission in Galaxy clusters Mark Henriksen A massive halo of warm baryons in the Coma cluster M. Bonamente, M.K. Joy and R. Lieu Soft X-ray excess emission in three clusters of galaxies observed with XMM-Newton J. Nevailanen, R. Lieu, M. Bonamente, D. Lumb XMM-Newton discovery of O VII emission from warm gas in clusters of galaxies Jelle S. Kaastra, R. Lieu, T. Tamura, F.B.S. Paerels and J.W.A. den Herder XMM-Newton discovery of an X-ray filament in Coma A. Finoguenov, U.G. Briel and. J.P. Henry The cluster Abell 85 and its X-ray filament revisited by Chandra and XMM-Newton. Florence Durret, Gastao B. Lima Neto, William R. Forman, Eugene Churazov Part II Absorption line studies of out Galaxy and the WHIM Chandra detection of X-ray absorption from local warm/hot gas T. Fang, C. Canizares, K. Sembach, H. Marshall, J. Lee, D. Davis The FUSE survey of O VI in the galactic halo B.D. Savage, K.R. Sembach, B.P. Wakker, P. Richter, M. Meade, E.B. Jenkins, J.M. Shull, H.W. Moos, G. Sonneborn The FUSE survey of high velocity O VI in the vicinity of the Milky Way K.R. Sembach, B.P. Wakker, B.D. Savage, P. Richter, M. Meade, J.M. Shull, E.B. Jenkins, H.W. Moos, G. Sonneborn Ionization of high velocity clouds in the Galactic halo Jonathan D. Slavin Part III Soft X-ray data analysis issues The ISM from the soft X-ray background perspective S.L. Snowden Peering throughthe muck: the influence of the ISM on observations Felix J. Lockman Part IV Hard X-ray excesses and non-thermal processes Hard X-ray excesses in clusters of galaxies and their non-thermal origin R. Fusco-Femiano Thermal and non-thermal SZ Effect in Galaxy Clusters S. Colafrancesco What the SZ Effect can tell us about the electron population in the Coma Cluster? S. Colafrancesco Part V Theoretical models of clusters, the CSE and the WHIM Observational constraints on models for the clusters soft excess emission Richard Lieu and Jonathan P.D. Mittaz High resolution simulations of clusters of galaxies Daisuke Nagai, Andrey V. Kravtsov WHIM emission and the cluster soft excess: a model comparison Jonathan P.D. Mittaz, Richard Lieu and Renyue Cen Part VI New instrumentation and the future Observing the warm-hot intergalactic medium with XEUS Jelle S. Kaastra and Frits B.S. Paerels