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Context. The internal structure of the intracluster medium (ICM) is tightly linked to the assembly history and physical processes in groups and clusters, but the role of recent accretion in shaping these profiles has not been fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

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

We have performed a series of N-body/hydrodynamical (TreeSPH) simulations of clusters and groups of galaxies, selected from cosmological N-body simulations within a $\Lambda$CDM framework: these objects have been re-simulated at higher…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 A. D. Romeo , J. Sommer-Larsen , L. Portinari , V. Antonuccio-Delogu

The distribution of metals and temperature in the intracluster medium (ICM) provides key insights into galaxy cluster evolution, revealing information about chemical enrichment and heating and cooling processes, respectively. To access this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-01 Yiwei Zhang , Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai

The dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM) is affected by turbulence driven by several processes, such as mergers, accretion and feedback from active galactic nuclei. X-ray surface brightness fluctuations have been used to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Marco Simonte , Franco Vazza , Fabrizio Brighenti , Marcus Brueggen , Tom W. Jones

Within the deep gravitational potential of galaxy clusters lies the intracluster medium (ICM). At the first order, it is considered to be at hydrostatic equilibrium within the potential well. However, evidence is growing that the ICM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Théo Lebeau , Stefano Ettori , Jenny G. Sorce , Nabila Aghanim , Jade Paste

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…

By resimulating a region of a global disc simulation at higher resolution, we resolve and study the properties of molecular clouds with a range of masses from a few 100's M$_{\odot}$ to $10^6$ M$_{\odot}$. The purpose of our paper is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Clare L. Dobbs

We present a simulation setup for studying the dynamical and chemical evolution of the intracluster medium (ICM) and analyze a sample of 12 galaxy clusters that are diverse both kinetically (pre-merger, merging, virialized) and in total…

Many recent models consider the structure of individual interstellar medium (ISM) clouds as a way to explain observations of large parts of galaxies. To compare such models to observations, one must understand how to translate between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Adam K. Leroy , Cheoljong Lee , Andreas Schruba , Alberto Bolatto , Annie Hughes , Jerome Pety , Karin Sandstrom , Eva Schinnerer , Fabian Walter

It has been shown that the gas velocities within the intracluster medium (ICM) can be measured by applying novel XMM-Newton EPIC-pn energy scale calibration, which uses instrumental Cu Ka as reference for the line emission. Using this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Efrain Gatuzz , R. Mohapatra , C. Federrath , J. S. Sanders , A. Liu , S. A. Walker , C. Pinto

The impact of viscosity in the Intracluster Medium (ICM) is still an open question in astrophysics. To address this problem, we have run a set of cosmological simulations of three galaxy clusters with a mass larger than $M_{\mathrm{Vir}} >…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Milena Valentini , David Vallés-Pérez , Klaus Dolag

Our current knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of galaxy clusters comes primarily from detailed studies of clusters selected by their minority components: hot baryons. Most of these studies select the clusters using the component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-15 S. Andreon , M. Radovich , A. Moretti , F. -X. Desert , T. Hamana , M. Pizzardo , C. Romero , H. Roussel , G. Trinchieri

The spatial distribution of gas matter inside galaxy clusters is not completely smooth, but may host gas clumps associated with substructures. These overdense gas substructures are generally a source of unresolved bias of X-ray observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 F. Vazza , D. Eckert , A. Simionescu , M. Brueggen , S. Ettori

We present cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters, with focus on the cluster outskirts. We show that large-scale cosmic accretion and mergers produce significant internal gas motions and inhomogeneous gas distribution ("clumpiness") in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-10 Daisuke Nagai

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

Current high resolution observations of galaxy clusters reveal a dynamical intracluster medium (ICM). The wealth of structures includes signatures of interactions between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the ICM, such as cavities and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Roediger , M. Brueggen , A. Simionescu , H. Boehringer , S. Heinz

We present detailed comparisons of the intracluster medium (ICM) in cosmological Eulerian cluster simulations with deep Chandra observations of nearby relaxed clusters. To assess the impact of galaxy formation, we compare two sets of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daisuke Nagai , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Alexey Vikhlinin

A major challenge in CGM studies is determining the three-dimensional (3D) properties from the observed projected observations. Here, we decompose the 3D gas density and spatial distribution of cool clouds by fitting a cool CGM model with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-04 Hang Yang , Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman , Li Ji

We study simple models of massive galaxy clusters in which the intracluster medium (ICM) rotates differentially in equilibrium in the cluster gravitational potential. We obtain the X-ray surface brightness maps, evaluating the isophote…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matteo Bianconi , Stefano Ettori , Carlo Nipoti