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We revisit the notion that galaxy motions can efficiently heat intergalactic gas in the central regions of clusters through dynamical friction. For plausible values of the galaxy mass-to-light ratio, the heating rate is comparable to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Amr El-Zant , Woong-Tae Kim , Marc Kamionkowski

We describe 2D gasdynamical models of jets that carry mass as well as energy to the hot gas in galaxy clusters. These flows have many attractive attributes for solving the galaxy cluster cooling flow problem: Why the hot gas temperature and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabrizio Brighenti , William G. Mathews

Cluster galaxies moving through the intracluster medium (ICM) are expected to lose some of their interstellar medium (ISM) through ISM-ICM interactions. We perform high resolution (40 pc) three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Stephanie Tonnesen , Greg L. Bryan

Based mainly on X-ray observations, studies are made on interactions between the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in clusters of galaxies and their member galaxies. Through (magneto)hydrodynamic and gravitational channels, the moving galaxies are…

The distinctive morphology of head-tail radio galaxies reveals strong interactions between the radio jets and their intra-cluster environment, the general consensus on the morphology origin of head-tail sources is that radio jets are bent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Zhaoming Gan , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Feng Yuan

We perform a suite of simulations with realistic gravity and thermal balance in shells to quantify the role of the ratio of cooling time to the free-fall time ($t_{\rm cool}/t_{\rm ff}$) and the amplitude of density perturbations ($\delta…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Prakriti Pal Choudhury , Prateek Sharma , Eliot Quataert

In some chemical processes, the formation of the counter flow in the colliding-jets regime is the most promising phenomenon if there is a need of fast quenching of an obtained product [1]. Particularly this method can be used to control…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-04 Evgeniy Kartaev , Vladimir Emelkin , Marat Ktalkherman

We investigate the interaction between active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets and the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. Specifically, we study the efficiency with which jets can drive sound waves into the ICM. Previous works focused…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-06 Christopher J. Bambic , Christopher S. Reynolds

(Abridged) Theoretical models that include only gravitationally-driven processes fail to match the observed mean X-ray properties of clusters. As a result, there has recently been increased interest in models in which either radiative…

Simulating the dust content of galaxies and their surrounding gas is challenging due to the wide range of physical processes affecting the dust evolution. Here we present cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a cluster of galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-09 Mark Vogelsberger , Ryan McKinnon , Stephanie O'Neil , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Rahul Kannan

Recent observations by Chandra and XMM-Newton demonstrate that the central gas in "cooling flow" galaxy clusters has a mass cooling rate that decreases rapidly with decreasing temperature. This contrasts the predictions of a steady state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker , S. Pellegrini

The discovery of extended, approximately spherical weak shock waves in the hot intercluster gas in Perseus and Virgo has precipitated the notion that these waves may be the primary heating process that explains why so little gas cools to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. G. Mathews , A. Faltenbacher , F. Brighenti

Context. The magneto-thermal instability (MTI) is one of many possible drivers of stratified turbulence in the intracluster medium (ICM) outskirts of galaxy clusters, where the background temperature gradient is aligned with the gravity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Jean M. Kempf , François Rincon

We implement a black hole spin evolution and jet feedback model into SWIFT, a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. The jet power is determined self-consistently assuming Bondi accretion, using a realistic, spin-dependant efficiency. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-24 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Folkert S. J. Nobels

We present 3D radiation-gasdynamical simulations of an ionization front running into a dense clump. In our setup, a B0 star irradiates an overdensity which is at a distance of 10 pc and modelled as a supercritical 100 M_sol Bonnor-Ebert…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

The intense irradiation received by hot Jupiters suppresses convection in the outer layers of their atmospheres and lowers their cooling rates. "Inflated" hot Jupiters, i.e., those with anomalously large transit radii, require additional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrew N. Youdin , Jonathan L. Mitchell

In many astrophysical systems, mixing between cool and hot temperature gas/plasma through Kelvin-Helmholtz-instability-driven turbulence leads to the formation of an intermediate temperature phase with increased radiative losses that drive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-16 Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow , Inigo Arregui

Over the past several years, numerous examples of X-ray cavities coincident with radio sources have been observed in so-called "cool core" clusters of galaxies. Motivated by these observations, we explore the evolution and the effect of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Gardini

Gas in the central regions of cool-core clusters and other massive halos has a short cooling time ($\lesssim1~\mathrm{Gyr}$). Theoretical models predict that this gas is susceptible to multiphase condensation, in which cold gas is expected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-30 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Prateek Sharma , Christoph Federrath , Eliot Quataert

X-ray observations indicate that non-gravitational processes play a key role in determining the distribution of the diffuse, X-ray emitting gas in clusters of galaxies (ICM). The effect of non-gravitational processes is imprinted in the ICM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Tozzi