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We utilize cosmological simulations of 16 galaxy clusters at redshifts \zeq{0} and \zeq{0.6} to study the effect of inflowing streams on the properties of the X-ray emitting intracluster medium. We find that the mass accretion occurs…

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We examine metal and entropy content in galaxy groups having T_X~0.5-2 keV in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Our simulations include a well-constrained prescription for galactic outflows following momentum-driven wind scalings, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Romeel Davé , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Suresh Sivanandam

Massive galaxy clusters are filled with a hot, turbulent and magnetized intra-cluster medium. Still forming under the action of gravitational instability, they grow in mass by accretion of supersonic flows. These flows partially dissipate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-09 Francesco Miniati , Andrey Beresnyak

Clusters of galaxies can be seen as giant astrophysical laboratories enclosing matter in a large enough volume, so that the matter composition can be taken as representing the composition of our Universe. X-ray observations allow a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans Boehringer

We analyse the radial structure of self-gravitating spheres consisting of multiple interpenetrating fluids, such as the X-ray emitting gas and the dark halo of a galaxy cluster. In these dipolytropic models, adiabatic dark matter sits in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu

We present results on the X-ray properties of clusters and groups of galaxies, extracted from a large hydrodynamical simulation. We used the GADGET code to simulate a LambdaCDM model within a box of 192 Mpc/h on a side, with 480^3 dark…

The state of the hot gas in clusters of galaxies is investigated with a set of model clusters, created by assuming a polytropic equation of state (Gamma=1.2) and hydrostatic equilibrium inside gravitational potential wells drawn from a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Alexey Vikhlinin

We study the effects of radiative cooling, star formation and stellar feedback on the properties and evolution of galaxy clusters using high-resolution Adaptive Mesh Refinement N-body+gasdynamics simulations of clusters forming in the LCDM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daisuke Nagai , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics from how galaxies form and evolve to large scale structure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-28 Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Arif Babul , Yannick Bahé , Iryna S. Butsky , Ian G. McCarthy

We investigate the evolution of intracluster medium during a cluster merger, explicitly considering the relaxation process between the ions and electrons by N-body and hydrodynamical simulations. When two subclusters collide each other, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Motokazu Takizawa

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 X-ray emission by hot gas at the centers of clusters of galaxies is commonly modeled assuming the existence of steady-state, inhomogeneous cooling flows. We derive the metallicity profiles of the intracluster medium expected from such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Reisenegger , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Eli Waxman

Recent data have radically altered the X-ray perspective on cooling flow clusters. X-ray spectra show that very little of the hot intracluster medium is cooler than about 1 keV, despite having short cooling times. In an increasing number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. E. J. Nulsen , B. R. McNamara , L. P. David , M. W. Wise

We submit that non thermalized support for the outer intracluster medium in relaxed galaxy clusters is provided by turbulence, driven by inflows of intergalactic gas across the virial accretion shocks. We expect this component to increase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Cavaliere , A. Lapi , R. Fusco-Femiano

We have investigated the baryon-mass content in a subsample of 19 clusters of galaxies extracted from the X-ray flux-limited sample HIFLUGCS according to their positions in the sky. For these clusters, we measured total masses and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yu-Ying Zhang , Tatiana F. Laganá , Daniele Pierini , Ewald Puchwein , Peter Schneider , Thomas H. Reiprich

In order to find the conditions which determine whether X-Ray hot gas in galaxy groups (intragroup gas; IGG) is heated externally or internally, we investigate the evolution of blast waves in galaxy groups growing on a hierarchical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yutaka Fujita

Gas inflow into galaxies should affect the star formation and hence the evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. In this work, we use TNG100 of the IllustrisTNG simulations to understand the role of environment on gas inflow rates in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Anishya Harshan , Kim-Vy Tran , Anshu Gupta , Glenn G. Kacprzak , Themiya Nanayakkara

Several physical processes and formation events are expected in cluster outskirts, a vast region up to now essentially not covered by observations. The recent Suzaku (X-ray) and Planck (Sunayev-Zeldovich effect) observations out to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Fusco-Femiano , A. Lapi

Non-gravitational processes, such as feedback from galaxies and their active nuclei, are believed to have injected excess entropy into the intracluster gas, and therefore to have modified the density profiles in galaxy clusters during their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wenjuan Fang , Zoltan Haiman

We explore the gravitational influence of pressure supported stellar systems on the internal density distribution of a gaseous environment. We conclude that compact massive star clusters with masses >= 10^6 M_sun act as cloud condensation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Pflamm-Altenburg , Pavel Kroupa