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Magnetic Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I discuss Chandra X-ray Observatory measurements of cavities in galaxy clusters and their implications for heating the intracluster gas. The emerging paradigm for cooling flows has important implications for understanding self-regulated galaxy formation.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0310708,
  title  = {Magnetic Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters},
  author = {B. R. McNamara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0310708},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Four pages. Contributed paper, Carnegie Observatories Centennial Symposium "Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution ed. J.S. Mulchaey, A. Dressler, and Oemler