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1 Intro duction
Galaxy clusters o ccupy a unique p osition in the dynamical evolution of the universe.
Unlikelower-mass systems such as galaxies, which for the most part retain little dynamical
information ab out their formation, clusters of galaxies are within one or two crossing times of
their formation. This suggests that they may retain valuable clues to their initial conditions
(as well as hints ab out the collapse and formation of structure in the early universe). The
e ect of the dense cluster environment on galaxy evolution, as well as other trends in the
physical prop erties of clusters (see, for instance, Dressler 1984; Giovanelli & Haynes 1985;
Edge & Stewart 1991), suggests that they are gravitationally b ound and that their galaxies
no longer participate in the Hubble ow. This distinguishes clusters from sup erclusters and
other large-scale structures. The study of galaxy clusters thus provides a unique opp ortunity
to explore gravitational interactions and dynamical evolution in the universe.
Clusters of galaxies contain two luminous comp onents, hot gas and galaxies. If a clus-
ter is suciently old and unp erturb ed, these tracer particles will have equilibrated within
the cluster gravitational p otential. This enables use of the equations of hydrostatic and
dynamical equilibrium to explore the physical prop erties of these systems. For a hot gas in
equilibrium with a spherical gravitational p otential, the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium 2
may b e written