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We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of the galaxy cluster population in the z=0 snapshot of the IllustrisTNG simulations, utilizing machine learning techniques to perform clustering and regression tasks. We examine five…

The galaxy cluster Abell 3667 is an ideal laboratory to study the plasma processes in the intracluster medium (ICM). High resolution Chandra X-ray observations show a cold front in Abell 3667. At radio wavelengths, Abell 3667 reveals a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Abhirup Datta , David E. Schenck , Jack O. Burns , Samuel W. Skillman , Eric J. Hallman

The spatial emission from the core of cooling flow clusters of galaxies is inadequately described by a beta-model(Cavaliere and Fusco-Femiano 1976). Spectrally, the central region of these clusters are well approximated with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Ettori

A common feature of the X-ray bubbles observed in Chandra images of some "cooling flow" clusters is that they appear to be surrounded by bright, cool shells. Temperature maps of a few nearby luminous clusters reveal that the shells consist…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ian G. McCarthy , Arif Babul , Neal Katz , Michael L. Balogh

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of the four most relaxed clusters in the South Pole Telescope 2500 deg^2 survey, which lie at 0.55 < z < 0.75. This study, which utilizes new, deep data from Chandra and Hubble, along with ground-based…

The intracluster medium (ICM), composed of hot plasma, dominates the baryonic content of galaxy clusters and is primarily observable in X-rays. Its thermodynamic properties, pressure, temperature, entropy, and electron density, offer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Elena Hernández-Martínez , Klaus Dolag , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Jenny G. Sorce , Théo Lebeau , Nabila Aghanim , Benjamin Seidel

The density profile of a cool core of intracluster gas is investigated for a cluster of galaxies that is initially in the virial equilibrium state, and then undergoes radiative cooling. The initial gas profile is derived under the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Naomi Ota , Kiyokazu Onzuka , Kuniaki Masai

We present a detailed analysis of the thermal X-ray emission from the intracluster medium (ICM) in the cool-core galaxy cluster Abell 2667 ($z=0.23$). Our goal is to detect low-temperature ($<2$ keV) X-ray emitting gas, potentially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 M. Lepore , C. Pinto , P. Tozzi , M. Gaspari , F. Gastaldello , A. Liu , P. Rosati , R. van Weeren , G. Cresci , E. Iani , G. Rodighiero

We present the results of a Chandra X-ray survey of the 8 most massive galaxy clusters at z>1.2 in the South Pole Telescope 2500 deg^2 survey. We combine this sample with previously-published Chandra observations of 49 massive…

Aims. We map the temperature structure of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) within a nearly complete X-ray flux limited sample of galaxy clusters in the redshift range z=[0.045,0.096]. Our sample contains seven bright clusters of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Bourdin , P. Mazzotta

This paper presents properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the environment of a cool core cluster Abell 2566 (redshift $z$ = 0.08247) based on the analysis of 20 ks Chandra X-ray data. 2D imaging analysis of the Chandra data from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 S. K. Kadam , Satish S. Sonkamble , N. D. Vagshette , M. K. Patil

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters potentially provide powerful cosmological probes if systematics due to our incomplete knowledge of the intracluster medium (ICM) physics are understood and controlled. In this paper, we present mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daisuke Nagai , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We analysed XMM-{\it Newton} EPIC data for 53 galaxy clusters. Through 2D spectral maps, we provide the most detailed and extended view of the spatial distribution of temperature (kT), pressure (P), entropy (S) and metallicity (Z) of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 T. F. Laganá , F. Durret , P. A. A. Lopes

Results from a large sample of hydrodynamical/N-body simulations of galaxy clusters in a LCDM cosmology are used to simulate cluster X-ray observations as expected from Chandra observations. The physical modeling of the gas includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Valdarnini

Aims: We discuss the dependence of shocks, cosmic rays acceleration and turbulence on the dynamical state of the host clusters. Method: We perform cosmological simulations with the grid code ENZO 1.5, with a mesh refinement scheme tailored…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-14 Franco Vazza

X-ray observations of many clusters of galaxies reveal the presence of edges in surface brightness and temperature, known as "cold fronts". In relaxed clusters with cool cores, these edges have been interpreted as evidence for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. A. ZuHone , M. Markevitch , D. Lee

Do cool-core (CC) and noncool-core (NCC) clusters live in different environments? We make novel use of H$\alpha$ emission lines in the central galaxies of redMaPPer clusters as proxies to construct large (1,000's) samples of CC and NCC…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Elinor Medezinski , Michael McDonald , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake , Nicholas Battaglia , Massimo Gaspari , David Spergel , Renyue Cen

Numerical simulations with varying realism indicate an emergent principle -- multiphase condensation and large cavity power occur when the ratio of the cooling time to the free-fall time ($t_{\rm cool}/t_{\rm ff}$) falls below a threshold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-22 Kartick C Sarkar , Arjun Dey , Prateek Sharma

Recently, high-resolution Chandra observations revealed the existence of very sharp features in the X-ray surface brightness and temperature maps of several clusters (Vikhlinin et. al., 2001). These features, called ``cold fronts'', are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daisuke Nagai , Andrey V. Kravtsov

In order to investigate the spatial distribution of the ICM temperature in galaxy clusters in a quantitative way and probe the physics behind, we analyze the X-ray spectra of a sample of 50 galaxy clusters, which were observed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Zhenghao Zhu , Haiguang Xu , Jingying Wang , Junhua Gu , Weitian Li , Dan Hu , Chenhao Zhang , Liyi Gu , Tao An , Chengze Liu , Zhongli Zhang , Jie Zhu , Xiang-Ping Wu