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The degree of turbulent pressure support by residual gas motions in galaxy clusters is not well known. Mass modelling of combined X-ray and Sunyaev Zel'dovich observations provides an estimate of turbulent pressure support in the outer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 M. Angelinelli , F. Vazza , C. Giocoli , S. Ettori , T. W. Jones , G. Brunetti , M. Brüggen , D. Eckert

Galaxy cluster mass determinations achieved using X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich data combined with the assumption of hydrostatic equilibrium are generally biased. The bias exists for two main reasons: non-thermal pressure forces are expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-02 Davide Martizzi , Harrison Agrusa

Galaxy clusters are the endpoints of structure formation and are continuously growing through the merging and accretion of smaller structures. Numerical simulations predict that a fraction of their energy content is not yet thermalized,…

Rotation curves constrain a galaxy's underlying mass density profile, under the assumption that the observed rotation produces a centripetal force that exactly balances the inward force of gravity. However, most rotation curves are measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. J. Dalcanton , A. Stilp

Cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters typically find that the weight of a cluster at a given radius is not balanced entirely by the thermal gas pressure of the hot ICM, with theoretical studies emphasizing the role of random turbulent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Taotao Fang , Philip J. Humphrey , David A. Buote

We present analysis of bulk and random gas motions in the intracluster medium using high-resolution Eulerian cosmological simulations of sixteen simulated clusters, including both very relaxed and unrelaxed systems and spanning a virial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Erwin T. Lau , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Daisuke Nagai

We use three-dimensional MHD simulations with anisotropic thermal conduction to study turbulence due to the magnetothermal instability (MTI) in the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. The MTI grows on timescales of ~1 Gyr and is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ian J. Parrish , Michael McCourt , Eliot Quataert , Prateek Sharma

Non-thermal pressure in galaxy clusters leads to underestimation of the mass of galaxy clusters based on hydrostatic equilibrium with thermal gas pressure. This occurs even for dynamically relaxed clusters that are used for calibrating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Xun Shi , Eiichiro Komatsu , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin T. Lau

Turbulent gas motion inside galaxy clusters provides a non-negligible non-thermal pressure support to the intracluster gas. If not corrected, it leads to a systematic bias in the estimation of cluster masses from X-ray and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-17 Xun Shi , Eiichiro Komatsu , Kaylea Nelson , Daisuke Nagai

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

Accurate mass determination of clusters of galaxies is crucial if they are to be used as cosmological probes. However, there are some discrepancies between cluster masses determined based on gravitational lensing, and X-ray observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. M. Molnar , I. -N. Chiu , K. Umetsu , P. Chen , N. Hearn , T. Broadhurst , G. Bryan , C. Shang

The amount of turbulent pressure in galaxy clusters is still debated, especially as for the impact of the dynamical state and the hydro-method used for simulations. We study the turbulent pressure fraction in the intra cluster medium of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Frederick Groth , Milena Valentini , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , David Vallés-Pérez , Klaus Dolag

We present a modelization of the non-thermal pressure, $P_{NT}$, and we apply it to the X-ray (and Sunayev-Zel'dovich) derived radial profiles of the X-COP galaxy clusters. We relate the amount of non-thermal pressure support to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-29 S. Ettori , D. Eckert

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

Major mergers are considered to be a significant source of turbulence in clusters. We performed a numerical simulation of a major merger event using nested-grid initial conditions, adaptive mesh refinement, radiative cooling of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 W. Schmidt , C. Byrohl , J. F. Engels , C. Behrens , J. C. Niemeyer

Interstellar turbulence is driven over a wide range of scales by processes including spiral arm instabilities and supernovae, and it affects the rate and morphology of star formation, energy dissipation, and angular momentum transfer in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Bruce G. Elmegreen

The masses of clusters of galaxies estimated by gravitational lensing exceed in many cases the mass estimates based on hydrostatic equilibrium. This may suggest the existence of nonthermal pressure. We ask if radio galaxies can heat and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. A. Ensslin , P. L. Biermann , P. P. Kronberg , X. -P. Wu

Cosmological constraints from X-ray and microwave observations of galaxy clusters are subjected to systematic uncertainties. Non-thermal pressure support due to internal gas motions in galaxy clusters is one of the major sources of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kaylea Nelson , Erwin T. Lau , Daisuke Nagai

Ram pressure stripping can remove significant amounts of gas from galaxies that orbit in clusters and massive groups, and thus has a large impact on the evolution of cluster galaxies. In this paper, we reconstruct the present-day…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Brueggen , G. De Lucia

The central mass distribution of clusters of galaxies can be inferred from gravitationally lensed arcs with known redshifts. For the Abell cluster 2218, this method yields a core mass which is larger by a factor of $2.5 \pm 0.5$ than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Abraham Loeb , Shude Mao
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