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We have investigated the ram-pressure stripping of disk galaxies in clusters at various redshifts and in cluster progenitors; the clusters grow up on a hierarchical clustering scenario. We consider a radially infalling galaxy whose initial…

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The use of galaxy clusters as cosmological probes often relies on understanding the properties and evolution of the intracluster medium (ICM). However, the ICM is a complex plasma, regularly stirred by mergers and feedback, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Jake S. Bennett , Debora Sijacki

We use an analytic model to investigate the theoretical uncertainty on the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) power spectrum due to astrophysical uncertainties in the thermal structure of the intracluster medium. Our model accounts for star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Laurie D. Shaw , Daisuke Nagai , Suman Bhattacharya , Erwin T. Lau

Precipitation of cold gas due to thermal instability in both galaxy clusters and the circumgalactic medium may regulate AGN feedback. We investigate thermal instability in idealized simulations of the circumgalactic medium with a parameter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Benjamin D. Wibking , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'Shea

Thermal convection is observed in molecular dynamic simulation of a fluidized granular system of nearly elastic hard disks moving under gravity, inside a rectangular box. Boundaries introduce no shearing or time dependence, but the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosa Ramirez , Dino Risso , Patricio Cordero

We present the analysis of a local (z = 0.04 - 0.2) sample of 31 galaxy clusters with the aim of measuring the density of the X-ray emitting gas in cluster outskirts. We compare our results with numerical simulations to set constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 D. Eckert , F. Vazza , S. Ettori , S. Molendi , D. Nagai , E. T. Lau , M. Roncarelli , M. Rossetti , S. L. Snowden , F. Gastaldello

Joint analyses on X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect of a cluster of galaxies can give rise to an estimate on the angular diameter distance to the cluster. With the redshift information of the cluster, the Hubble constant $H_0$ can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. -G. Wang , Z. -H. Fan

We study the origin of the non-thermal profiles observed in filamentary structures in galactic molecular clouds by means of numerical dynamical simulations. We find that such profiles are intrinsic features of the end products of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-25 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Shamik Gupta , Lapo Casetti

A non-hydrostatic depth-averaged model for dry granular flows is proposed, taking into account vertical acceleration. A variable friction coefficient based on the $\mu(I)$ rheology is considered. The model is obtained from an asymptotic…

In this paper we investigate the level of hydrostatic equilibrium (HE) in the intra-cluster medium of simulated galaxy clusters, extracted from state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations performed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 V. Biffi , S. Borgani , G. Murante , E. Rasia , S. Planelles , G. L. Granato , C. Ragone-Figueroa , A. M. Beck , M. Gaspari , K. Dolag

The origin of non-thermal motions in massive star forming regions can be ascribed to turbulence acting against the gravitational collapse, or to the self-gravity itself driving the rapid global collapse. The dependence between velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-17 A. Traficante , G. A. Fuller , R. Smith , N. Billot , A. Duarte-Cabral , N. Peretto , S. Molinari , J. E. Pineda

The phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion in temperature-stratified turbulence causing a non-diffusive turbulent flux of inertial and non-inertial particles in the direction of the turbulent heat flux is found using direct numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-28 N. E. L. Haugen , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , A. Brandenburg

We present a semi-analytic model for the interstellar medium that considers local processes and structures of turbulent star-forming gas. A volume element of the interstellar medium is described as a multiphase system, comprising a cold and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Harald Braun , Wolfram Schmidt

The thermal-to-nonthermal partition was found to vary greatly from one flare to another resulting in a broad variety of cases from 'heating without acceleration' to 'acceleration without heating'. Recent analysis of microwave data of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-02 Gregory D. Fleishman

The temperature profile (TP) of the intracluster medium (ICM) is of primeval importance for deriving the dynamical parameters of the largest equilibrium systems known in the universe, in particular their total mass profile. Analytical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dos Santos

Analyses of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy clusters suggest that X-ray masses can be underestimated by 10% to 30%. The largest bias originates by both violation of hydrostatic equilibrium and an additional temperature bias…

We study thermal-gravitational instability in simplified models for protogalactic halos using three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. The simulations followed the evolution of gas with radiative cooling down to T = 10^4 K, background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chang Hyun Baek , Hyesung Kang , Jongsoo Kim , Dongsu Ryu

Statistical analysis of Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) maps of the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters provides a unique tool to evaluate some spatial features of the magnetic fields there. Its combination with numerical simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-01 R. Santos-Lima , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , D. A. Falceta-Gonçalves , M. S. Nakwacki , G. Kowal

The discrepancy between expected and observed cooling rates of X-ray emitting gas has led to the {\it cooling flow problem} at the cores of clusters of galaxies. A variety of models have been proposed to model the observed X-ray spectra and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-15 Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Niayesh Afshordi , Habib. G. Khosroshahi

We conduct two kinds of homogeneous isotropic turbulence simulations relevant for the intracluster medium (ICM): (i) pure turbulence runs without radiative cooling; (ii) turbulent heating$+$radiative cooling runs with global thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Prateek Sharma