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  "date_created": "2026-02-17T05:53:04.670000Z",
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    "abstract": "The recent microcalorimetric X-ray observations of the Coma cluster by XRISM have sparked active discussion regarding the physical origin of its gas velocity features. Here, we demonstrate that an off-axis minor merger in its early phase $-$ when the infalling subhalo is near its primary apocenter and the stripped tail is not yet mixed with the main cluster atmosphere $-$ can drive intracluster gas motions generally consistent with the XRISM results. These include a pronounced velocity gradient and an approximately uniform velocity dispersion of $\\simeq100-200\\,\\rm{km\\,s^{-1}}$ in the cluster core. Our merger scenario was originally suggested in Lyskova et al. (2019) to reproduce the major X-ray morphological features of Coma. In addition, we introduce a simple and robust diagnostic of intracluster gas motions based on the ratio of the line-of-sight velocity to the velocity dispersion.",
    "arxiv_id": "2601.05803",
    "authors": [
      "Congyao Zhang",
      "Eugene Churazov",
      "Ildar Khabibullin",
      "Natalya Lyskova",
      "Norbert Werner",
      "Irina Zhuravleva"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "title": "A Minimalist Merger Interpretation of XRISM\u0027s Gas Velocity Measurements in the Coma Cluster",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05803",
    "version": "v1"
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