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We explore the relationship between the metallicity of the intracluster gas in clusters of galaxies, determined by X-ray spectroscopy, and the presence of cooling flows. Using ASCA spectra and ROSAT images, we demonstrate a clear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. W. Allen , A. C. Fabian

We study the X-ray cluster gas density distribution in hydrostatic equilibrium using the universal temperature profile obtained from recent simulations involving only gravitational processes. If this temperature profile is an indicator of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Suparna Roychowdhury , Biman B. Nath

We report the results of experiments aimed at reducing the major problem with cooling flow models of rich cluster X-ray sources: the fact that most of the cooled gas or its products have not been found. Here we show that much of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ian G. McCarthy , Michael J. West , Gary A. Welch

Galaxy clusters exhibit remarkable self-similar behavior which allows us to establish simple scaling relationships between observable quantities and cluster masses, making galaxy clusters useful cosmological probes. Recent X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Erwin T. Lau , Daisuke Nagai , Camille Avestruz , Kaylea Nelson , Alexey Vikhlinin

We present the first self-consistently computed results on the evolution of X-ray properties of galaxy clusters in a Cold + Hot Dark Matter (CHDM) model. We have performed a hydrodynamic plus N-body simulation for the COBE-compatible CHDM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Greg L. Bryan , Anatoly Klypin , Chris Loken , Michael L. Norman , Jack O. Burns

Context. Scaling relations between cluster properties embody the formation and evolution of cosmic structure. Intrinsic scatters and correlations between X-ray properties are determined from merger history, baryonic processes, and dynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 Mauro Sereno , Stefano Ettori , Dominique Eckert , Paul Giles , Ben J. Maughan , Florian Pacaud , Marguerite Pierre , Patrick Valageas

We calculate X-ray properties of present-day galaxy clusters from hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of the LCDM cosmology and compare these with recent X-ray observations. Results from three simulations are presented, each of which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Orrarujee Muanwong , Peter A. Thomas , Scott T. Kay , Frazer R. Pearce

We present a novel approach for a combined analysis of X-ray and gravitational lensing data and apply this technique to the merging galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1$-$2403. The method exploits the information on the intracluster gas distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-04 M. Bonamigo , C. Grillo , S. Ettori , G. B. Caminha , P. Rosati , A. Mercurio , M. Annunziatella , I. Balestra , M. Lombardi

The possible gamma-ray excess in the inner Galaxy and the Galactic center (GC) suggested by Fermi-LAT observations has triggered a large number of studies. It has been interpreted as a variety of different phenomena such as a signal from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

We report on the detection of dark matter in the cluster Abell 2218 using the weak gravitational distortion of background galaxies. We find a highly significant, coherent detection of the distortion in the images of the background galaxies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Squires , N. Kaiser , A. Babul , G. Fahlman , D. Woods , D. M. Neumann , H. Böhringer

The mean intracluster gas fraction of X-ray clusters within their hydrostatic regions is derived from recent observational compilations of David, Jones & Forman and White & Fabian. At radii encompassing a mean density 500 times the critical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 August E. Evrard

Recent Suzaku X-ray observations revealed that the observed entropy profile of the intracluster medium (ICM) deviates significantly from the prediction of hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters. In this work, we show that gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Daisuke Nagai , Erwin Lau

Many processes within galaxy clusters, such as those believed to govern the onset of thermally unstable cooling and AGN feedback, are dependent upon local dynamical timescales. However, accurately mapping the mass distribution within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 M. T. Hogan , B. R. McNamara , F. Pulido , P. E. J. Nulsen , H. R. Russell , A. N. Vantyghem , A. C. Edge , R. A. Main

Central cool gas component that is often observed from a well-relaxed cluster system has long been interpreted as a consequence of ``Cooling Flow'' (CF), radiative cooling followed by inflow of Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM). However, recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasushi Ikebe

The Universe contains approximately 6 times more dark matter than normal baryonic matter, and a directly observed fundamental difference between dark matter and baryons would both be significant for our understanding of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steen H. Hansen , Rocco Piffaretti

Turbulent processes at work in the intracluster medium perturb this environment, displacing gas, and creating local density fluctuations that can be quantified via X-ray surface brightness fluctuation analyses. Improved knowledge of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Simon Dupourqué , Nicolas Clerc , Etienne Pointecouteau , Dominique Eckert , Stefano Ettori , Franco Vazza

Results of ASCA X-ray study of central regions of medium-richness clusters of galaxies are summarized, emphasizing differences between cD and non-cD clusters. The intra-cluster medium (ICM) is likely to consist of two (hot and cool) phases…

Galaxy clusters, the most massive, dark-matter-dominated, and most recently assembled structures in the Universe, are key tools for probing cosmology. However, uncertainties in scaling relations that connect cluster mass to observables like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Giulia Cerini , Elena Bellomi , Nico Cappelluti , Sabina Khizroev , Erwin T. Lau , Priyamvada Natarajan , John ZuHone

We present a systematic analysis of the intracluster medium (ICM) in an X-ray flux limited sample of 45 galaxy clusters. Using archival ROSAT PSPC data and published ICM temperatures, we present best fit double and single beta model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joe Mohr , Ben Mathiesen , Gus Evrard

We consider a sample of 22 nearby clusters of galaxies observed with the Medium Energy Concentrator Spectrometer (MECS) on board of BeppoSAX. They cover the range in gas temperature between 3 and 10 keV, with bolometric X-ray luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Ettori , S. De Grandi , S. Molendi