Dynamical friction of radio galaxies in galaxy clusters
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
The distribution of luminous radio galaxies in galaxy clusters has been observed to be concentrated in the inner region. We consider the role of dynamical friction of massive galaxies ( M), assuming them to be hosts of luminous radio galaxies, and show that beginning with a Navarro-Frenk-White density profile of a cluster of mass M of concentration and collapsing at , the density profile of radio galaxies evolve to a profile of concentration , as observed, in a time scale of Gyr.
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@article{arxiv.0804.3468,
title = {Dynamical friction of radio galaxies in galaxy clusters},
author = {Biman B. Nath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3468},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS (Letters) in press