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We search the cool core galaxy clusters in the REXCESS sample for evidence of large scale gas sloshing, and find clear evidence for sloshing in RXJ2014.8-2430, the strongest cool core cluster in the REXCESS cluster sample. The residuals of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. A. Walker , A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders

X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies reveal the presence of edges in surface brightness and temperature, known as "cold fronts". In relaxed clusters with cool cores, these commonly observed edges have been interpreted as evidence for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 J. A. ZuHone , M. Markevitch , R. E. Johnson

RXJ1347.5-1145 (z = 0.451) is one of the most luminous X-ray galaxy clusters, which hosts a prominent cool core and exhibits a signature of a major merger. We present the first direct observational evidence for sub-sonic nature of sloshing…

High-resolution Chandra images of several clusters of galaxies reveal sharp, edge-like discontinuities in their gas density. The gas temperature is higher in front of the edge where the density is low, corresponding to approximately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Mazzotta , M. Markevitch , A. Vikhlinin , W. R. Forman

This conference presentation discusses a Chandra observation of the cold front in Abell 3667. We first review our earlier results which include a measurement of the front velocity, M~1, using the ratio of exterior and interior gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Vikhlinin , M. Markevitch

Cold molecular gas has been recently detected in several cooling flow clusters of galaxies where huge optical nebulosities often stand. These optical filaments are tightly linked to the cooling flow and to the related phenomena, like the…

A study of the structural and scaling properties of the temperature distribution of the hot, X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium of galaxy clusters, and its dependence on dynamical state, can give insights into the physical processes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. W. Pratt , H. Boehringer , J. H. Croston , M. Arnaud , S. Borgani , A. Finoguenov , R. F. Temple

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a basic physical process in fluids and magnetized plasmas, with applications successfully modelling e.g. exponentially growing instabilities observed at magnetospheric and heliospheric boundaries, in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Xiaohong Li , Jun Zhang , Shuhong Yang , Yijun Hou , Robert Erdelyi

Recent Chandra observations of clusters of galaxies revealed the existence of a sharp ridge in the X-ray surface brightness where the temperature drops across the front. This front is called the cold front. We present the results of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Naoki Asai , Naoya Fukuda , Ryoji Matsumoto

We present results obtained with a new XMM-Newton observation of A2142, a famous textbook example of cluster with multiple cold fronts, which has been studied in detail with Chandra but whose large scale properties are presented here for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Rossetti , D. Eckert , S. De Grandi , F. Gastaldello , S. Ghizzardi , E. Roediger , S. Molendi

Massive galaxies at high redshift are predicted to be fed from the cosmic web by narrow, dense, cold streams. These streams penetrate supersonically through the hot medium encompassed by a stable shock near the virial radius of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-20 Nir Mandelker , Dan Padnos , Avishai Dekel , Yuval Birnboim , Andreas Burkert , Mark R. Krumholz , Elad Steinberg

Table of contents (abridged): COLD FRONTS Origin and evolution of merger cold fronts Cold fronts in cluster cool cores . . . Simulations of gas sloshing. Origin of density discontinuity. . . . Effect of sloshing on cluster mass estimates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maxim Markevitch , Alexey Vikhlinin

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) is a nonlinear shear-driven instability that develops at the interface between shear flows in plasmas. KHI has been inferred in various astrophysical plasmas and has been observed in situ at the…

We present results of a joint {\sl Chandra} and {\sl XMM-Newton} analysis of the Fornax Cluster, the nearest galaxy cluster in the southern sky. Signatures of merger-induced gas sloshing can be seen in the X-ray image. We identify four…

We present the properties of intracluster medium (ICM) in the cool core of the massive cluster of galaxies Abell 1835 obtained with the data by $ Chandra$ $X$-$ray$ $Observatory$. We find distinctive spiral patterns with the radius of 70…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Shutaro Ueda , Tetsu Kitayama , Tadayasu Dotani

We present a combined X-ray, optical, and radio analysis of the galaxy group IC 1860 using the currently available Chandra and XMM data, literature multi-object spectroscopy data and GMRT data. The Chandra and XMM imaging and spectroscopy…

Radio observations of a few cool-core galaxy clusters have revealed the presence of diffuse emission on cluster scales, similar to what was found in merging clusters in the form of radio halos. These sources might suggest that a minor…

Hitomi made the first direct measurements of galaxy cluster gas motions in the Perseus cluster, which implied that its core is fairly "quiescent", with velocities less than $\sim$200 km s$^{-1}$, despite the presence of an active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 J. ZuHone , E. D. Miller , E. Bulbul , I. Zhuravleva

The physics of the coolest phases in the hot Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) of clusters of galaxies is yet to be fully unveiled. X-ray cavities blown by the central Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) contain enough energy to heat the surrounding gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 J. de Plaa , N. Werner , A. Simionescu , J. S. Kaastra , Y. G. Grange , Jacco Vink