A chemical evolution model for galaxy clusters
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We develop a toy-model for the chemical evolution of the intracluster medium, polluted by the galactic winds from elliptical galaxies. The model follows the "galaxy formation history" of cluster galaxies, constrained by the observed luminosity function.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0108077,
title = {A chemical evolution model for galaxy clusters},
author = {L. Portinari and A. Moretti and C. Chiosi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0108077},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, 10 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop "Chemical Enrichment of Intracluster and Intergalactic Medium", Vulcano, Italy, 14-18 May 2001, ASP Conference Series