Cluster Cooling Flows:  Then
* The first imaging observations of
clusters of galaxies with Einstein
confirmed predictions that the cooling
time of gas at the core of the
intracluster media of many clusters
should be less than the Hubble time,
requiring the presence of a cooling
flow.
* One expected the presence of copious
soft X-ray line emission from these
cluster cores, incompatible with the
background temperature of the cluster.
* Canizares et al. detected O K-shell and
Fe L-shell line emission, indicative of a
range of temperatures, with the FPCS
for M87 in the Virgo cluster.
Canizares et al., 1982, Ap. J., 262, 33.