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The peculiar velocity and temperature profile of galaxy clusters

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-12-26 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Dynamical parameters like average velocity dispersion and temperature profile of galaxy clusters are determined using a quasi equilibrium thermodynamic theory. The calculated velocity dispersion results from theory and simulations shows a good agreement with the velocity dispersion results of (Abdullah et al. \cite{Abd11}). An Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR), Grid based hybrid code have been used to carry out the simulations. Our results indicate that the average velocity dispersion profile of 2020 Abell galaxy clusters falls in the range of 5001000500-1000 km/s and their temperature profile is of the order of 10710^7 to 10810^8K calculated on the basis of kinetic theory. The data in the plot shows a significant contribution of gravitating particles clustering together in the vicinity of cluster center and beyond a certain region this velocity dies out and gets dominated by the Hubble's flow due to which all the galaxy clusters in an expanding universe participate in Hubble's expansion.

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@article{arxiv.1312.6781,
  title  = {The peculiar velocity and temperature profile of galaxy clusters},
  author = {Tabasum Masood and Naseer Iqbal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6781},
  year   = {2013}
}

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