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We present a systematic study of gas density perturbations in cool cores of high-mass galaxy clusters. We select 12 relaxed clusters from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) sample and analyze their cool core…

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Unopposed radiative cooling in clusters of galaxies results in excessive mass deposition rates. However, the cool cores of galaxy clusters are continuously heated by thermal conduction and turbulent heat diffusion due to minor mergers or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Ruszkowski , S. Peng Oh

Recent observations show that the cooling flows in the central regions of galaxy clusters are highly suppressed. Observed AGN-induced cavities/bubbles are a leading candidate for suppressing cooling, usually via some form of mechanical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fulai Guo , S. Peng OH

I argue that the mixing-heating mechanism of the intracluster medium (ICM) is compatible with the new observations by the X-ray telescope XRISM that show the dispersion velocity in the cooling flow cluster of galaxies A2029 to be 169 km/s.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-30 Noam Soker

The hot plasma permeating clusters of galaxies often shows a central peak in the X-ray surface brightness that is coincident with a drop in entropy. This is taken as evidence for a cooling flow where the radiative cooling in the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marcus Brueggen , Christian R. Kaiser

In this work, we present a study of the central regions of cool-core clusters hosting radio mini-halos, which are di use synchrotron sources extended on cluster-scales surrounding the radio-loud brightest galaxy. We aim to investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Luca Bravi , Myriam Gitti , Gianfranco Brunetti

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 presence of dilute hot cavities in the intracluster medium (ICM) at the cores of clusters of galaxies changes the relation between gas temperature and its X-ray emission properties. Using the hydrostatic equations of a porous medium we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adi Nusser , Joe Silk

We attempt to explain the non-thermal emission arising from galaxy clusters as a result of the re-acceleration of electrons by compressible turbulence induced by cluster mergers. In our model intracluster medium (ICM) is represented by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brunetti , A. Lazarian

We revisit the phenomenon of elements diffusion in the intergalactic medium (IGM) in clusters of galaxies. The diffusion is driven by gravity, concentration and temperature gradients. The latter cause thermal diffusion, which has been so…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Shtykovskiy , M. Gilfanov

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

A variety of physical heating mechanisms are combined with radiative cooling to explore, via one dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, the expected thermal properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the context of the cooling flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charlie Conroy , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The detailed velocity structure of the diffuse X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium (ICM) remains one of the last missing key ingredients in understanding the microphysical properties of these hot baryons and constraining our models of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 A. Simionescu , J. ZuHone , I. Zhuravleva , E. Churazov , M. Gaspari , D. Nagai , N. Werner , E. Roediger , R. E. A. Canning , D. Eckert , L. Gu , F. Paerels

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 simulate the evolution of dense-cool clumps embedded in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) of cooling flow clusters of galaxies in response to multiple jet-activity cycles, and find that the main heating process of the clumps is mixing with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Shlomi Hillel , Noam Soker

Based on high-resolution two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, we show that the bulk gas motions in a cluster of galaxies, which are naturally expected during the process of hierarchical structure formation of the universe, have a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yutaka Fujita , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Keiichi Wada

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

Clusters of galaxies are embedded in halos of optically thin, gravitationally stratified, weakly magnetized plasma at the system's virial temperature. Due to radiative cooling and anisotropic heat conduction, such intracluster medium (ICM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 C. Nipoti , L. Posti , S. Ettori , M. Bianconi

We investigate the properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) that forms within N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in a \LambdaCDM cosmology. When radiative cooling and a simple model for galactic feedback are included,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott T. Kay , Peter A. Thomas , Adrian Jenkins , Frazer R. Pearce

The hot circum-galactic medium (CGM) represents the hot gas distributed beyond the stellar content of the galaxies while typically within their dark matter halos. It serves as a depository of energy and metal-enriched materials from…

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