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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 (M1012.5M\sim 10^{12.5} M_{\odot}), 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 Mcl1015M_{cl}\sim 10^{15} M_{\odot} of concentration c5c\sim 5 and collapsing at z1z\sim 1, the density profile of radio galaxies evolve to a profile of concentration c25c \sim 25, as observed, in a time scale of t35t\sim 3\hbox{--}5 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}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS (Letters) in press