  ASCA and ROSAT data of the Centaurus cluster were analyzed. A central excess
in the radial brightness profile is found in the hard energy band up to 10keV.
This requires a deeper central potential than a King-type one. A double-beta
brightness distribution gives a good account of the data. A deprojected energy
spectrum within a spherical region of radius 30 kpc at the cluster center
indicates that the ICM cannot be isothermal there. Simultaneous fitting of the
three (PSPC, GIS, and SIS) energy spectra extracted from the central 3' region
showed that a two-temperature model that has temperatures of 1.4keV and 4.4keV
and a common metallicity of 1.0 solar with the Galactic absorption gives the
best description to the spectra. A cooling-flow spectral model did not give
satisfactory fit. A 3-dimensional cluster model incorporating the two-phase
picture, the double-beta brightness distribution, and the central metallicity
increase reproduced the overall ASCA and ROSAT data successfully. The derived
spatial distribution of the dark matter deviates from a King-type profile
exhibiting a central excess, which is consistent with the Navvaro-Frenk-White
model. The iron is revealed to be more widely spread than stars, which may have
been caused by energetic supernovae and the motion of the cD galaxy. Since the
derived characteristics of the cool phase including the temperature, angular
extent, gas mass, and metallicity, are on a smooth extension of those of
inter-stellar medium (ISM) of elliptical galaxies, the cool phase can be
regarded as the ISM associated with the cD galaxy. The cool-phase X-ray
emission is presumably sustained by energies dissipated by infalling mass to
the cD galaxy in the course of cluster evolution.
