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5 Error Balance Sheet and Conclusions 

Combining these and some other sources of error together, we obtain the preliminary results for the clusters A2218 and A1413 shown in Table 1. Both of these clusters are at , so we neglect the possible error that could arise from using a value of different to .

  
Table 1:  Preliminary values of for the clusters A2218 and A1413.

We note that although the gas properties are different in these two clusters, the estimates of are consistent. These two clusters comprise part of an X-ray luminosity limited sample, which will be independent of cluster orientation. This sample will allow us to calculate an unbiased estimate of from a direct physical method, with a robust error budget.


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