Abstract
The discovery of EUV and soft X-ray excess emission in clusters of galaxies (the cluster soft excess phenomenon) challenged the notion of the hot (~107-108 K) gas as the only dominant thermal component of the intracluster medium (ICM). The spatial analysis of ROSAT PSPC keV images presented here reveals compelling evidence for substantial amounts of gas (H I) in the ICM of the Coma and Virgo Clusters. This finding bolsters the original interpretation of the soft excess as emission from a warm (~106 K) gas and points to the scenario of a multiphase ICM where the hot component coexists with gases at subvirial temperatures (the warm and cold phases).
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