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We show that the mechanical energy injection rate generated as the intra-cluster medium (ICM) flows around cold clouds may be sufficient to power the optical and near infra-red emission of nebulae observed in the central regions of a sample…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edward Pope , Thomas Hartquist , Julian Pittard

The dissipation of turbulent gas motions is one of the likely mechanisms that has been proposed to heat the intracluster medium (ICM) in the cores of clusters and groups of galaxies. We consider the impact of gas motions on the width of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-28 P. Rebusco , E. Churazov , R. A. Sunyaev , H. Boehringer , W. Forman

We present a simulation setup for studying the dynamical and chemical evolution of the intracluster medium (ICM) and analyze a sample of 12 galaxy clusters that are diverse both kinetically (pre-merger, merging, virialized) and in total…

Observations of the ICM in the outskirts of the Virgo cluster with Suzaku have found the gas mass fraction in the northern direction to be significantly above the expected level, indicating that there may be a very high level of gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 M. S. Mirakhor , S. A. Walker

We present a statistically-optimal and model-independent method to extract the pressure profile of hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM). Using the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, we constrain the mean pressure profile of the ICM by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-02 Siavash Aslanbeigi , Guilhem Lavaux , Amir Hajian , Niayesh Afshordi

There is growing evidence that the active galactic nuclei (AGN) associated with the central elliptical galaxy in clusters of galaxies are playing an important role in the evolution of the intracluster medium (ICM) and clusters themselves.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Georgi Pavlovski , Christian R. Kaiser , Edward C. D. Pope , Hans Fangohr

Context. Future X-ray observatories with high spectral resolution and imaging capabilities will enable measurements and mappings of emission line shifts in the intracluster medium (ICM). Such direct measurements can serve as unique probes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Sophie Beaumont , Alexeï Molin , Nicolas Clerc , Étienne Pointecouteau , Mélina Vanel , Edoardo Cucchetti , Philippe Peille , François Pajot

We compare a recent study of the kinematics of optical filaments in three cooling flow clusters of galaxies with previous numerical simulations of jet-inflated hot bubbles, and conclude that the velocity structure functions of the filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-24 Shlomi Hillel , Noam Soker

We present a study of the structural and scaling properties of the gas distributions in the intracluster medium (ICM) of 31 nearby (z < 0.2) clusters observed with XMM-Newton, which together comprise the Representative XMM-Newton Cluster…

Peculiar velocities of clusters of galaxies can be measured by studying the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) generated by the scattering of the microwave photons by the hot X-ray emitting gas inside clusters. While for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-26 A. Kashlinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela , D. Kocevski , H. Ebeling

The gas in galaxy clusters is heated by shock compression through accretion (outer shocks) and mergers (inner shocks). These processes additionally produce turbulence. To analyse the relation between the thermal and turbulent energies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Wolfram Schmidt , Jan F. Engels , Jens C. Niemeyer , Ann S. Almgren

Galaxy clusters, the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, contain vast amounts of dark matter, galaxies, and hot ionised gas known as the intracluster medium (ICM). In relaxed cluster cores, the ICM appears to cool…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 XRISM collaboration

The impact of viscosity in the Intracluster Medium (ICM) is still an open question in astrophysics. To address this problem, we have run a set of cosmological simulations of three galaxy clusters with a mass larger than $M_{\mathrm{Vir}} >…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Milena Valentini , David Vallés-Pérez , Klaus Dolag

The hot intracluster medium (ICM) is thought to be quiescent with low observed velocity dispersions. Surface brightness fluctuations of the ICM also suggest that its turbulence is subsonic with a Kolmogorov scaling relation, indicating that…

We present the analysis of the velocity structure of the intracluster gas near the core of Abell 3526 obtained with two off-center Chandra observations, specifically designed to eliminate errors due to spatial variations of the instrumental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Renato A. Dupke , Joel N. Bregman

Turbulent gas motions are observed in the intracluster medium (ICM). The ICM is density-stratified, with the gas density being highest at the centre of the cluster and decreasing radially outwards. As a result of this, Kolmogorov…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-04 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

We present results of gasdynamics+N-body constrained cosmological simulations of the Local Supercluster region (LSC; about 30/h Mpc around the Virgo cluster), which closely mimic the real Universe within 100 Mpc by imposing constraints from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly A. Klypin , Yehuda Hoffman

The temperature distribution of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the Virgo cluster of galaxies has been derived from extensive mapping observations with ASCA covering an area of 19 deg^2. In the spectral analysis, the inner region within a…

Context: The interstellar medium (ISM) on all scales is full of structures that can be used as tracers of processes that feed turbulence. Aims: We used HI survey data to derive global properties of the angular power distribution of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-02 P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Haud

We present the high-resolution X-rayspectroscopic observations of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster core using the XRISM satellite. Despite previous observations revealing multiple cold fronts and dynamical disturbances in the cluster core, our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-01 Yutaka Fujita , Kotaro Fukushima , Kosuke Sato , Yasushi Fukazawa , Marie Kondo