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In the hierarchical structure formation model, clusters of galaxies form through a sequence of mergers and continuous mass accretion, which generate significant random gas motions especially in their outskirts where material is actively…

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The viscous properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) remain poorly constrained. Cold fronts-sharp discontinuities formed during cluster mergers-offer a potential avenue to probe the effective viscosity of the ICM. Velocity shear across…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Ming-Hsueh Hsieh , H. -Y. Karen Yang , John ZuHone

Galactic outflows are a key agent of galaxy evolution, yet their observed multiphase nature remains difficult to reconcile with theoretical models, which often fail to explain how cold gas survives interactions with hot, fast winds. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Fernando Hidalgo-Pineda , Max Gronke , Philipp Grete

We propose that the outer portions of cooling flows (CFs) in clusters of galaxies are frequently disrupted by radio jets, and that their effective ages are much shorter than the cluster ages. The inner regions, where the gas density is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Noam Soker , Raymond E. White , Laurence P. David , Brian R. McNamara

Galactic gas-gas collisions involving a turbulent multiphase ISM share common ISM properties: dense extraplanar gas visible in CO, large linewidths (>= 50 km/s), strong mid-infrared H_2 line emission, low star formation activity, and strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 B. Vollmer , R. I. Davies

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

Though feedback from central active galactic nuclei provides an attractive solution to the problem of overcooling in galaxy cluster cores, another possible source of heating may come from ``sloshing'' of the cluster core gas initiated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. A. ZuHone , M. Markevitch

Observations of galaxy clusters show that the intracluster medium (ICM) is likely to be turbulent and is certainly magnetized. The properties of this magnetized turbulence are determined both by fundamental nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley

Results from a large set of hydrodynamical SPH simulations of galaxy clusters in a flat LCDM cosmology are used to investigate cluster X-ray properties. The physical modeling of the gas includes radiative cooling, star formation, energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Valdarnini

The distribution of metals and temperature in the intracluster medium (ICM) provides key insights into galaxy cluster evolution, revealing information about chemical enrichment and heating and cooling processes, respectively. To access this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-01 Yiwei Zhang , Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai

Evolutions of X-ray clusters of galaxies are studied by N-body (shell model) + mesh code (TVD) simulations on the assumption of spherical symmetry. We consider a density perturbation of $10^{15} M_{\odot}$ composed of dark matter and gas in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Motokazu Takizawa , Shin Mineshige

Gas infalling into the gravitational potential wells of massive galaxy clusters is expected to experience one or more shocks on its journey to becoming part of the intracluster medium (ICM). These shocks are important for setting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Eric J. Baxter , Susmita Adhikari , Jesús Vega-Ferrero , Weiguang Cui , Chihway Chang , Bhuvnesh Jain , Alexander Knebe

Galaxies moving through the gas of the intracluster medium (ICM) experience ram pressure stripping, which can leave behind a gas tail. When a disk galaxy receives the wind edge-on, however, the characteristic signature is not a typical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Rubens E. G. Machado , Caroline F. O. Grinberg , Elvis A. Mello-Terencio

We develop a model for the metal enrichment of the intracluster medium (ICM) that combines a cosmological non-radiative hydrodynamical N-Body/SPH simulation of a cluster of galaxies, and a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. The novel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sofia A. Cora

The diffuse hot medium inside clusters of galaxies typically exhibits turbulent motions whose amplitude increases with radius, as revealed by cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. However, its physical origin remains unclear. It could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai , Erwin Lau

We present a detailed analysis of sloshing cold fronts in a sample of three nearby galaxy clusters (Abell 496, Abell 2029, and Abell 1644) observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Cold fronts manifest as sharp edges in the X-ray surface…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 I-Hsuan Li , Shutaro Ueda , I-Non Chiu , Keiichi Umetsu

We report the results of 1-D hydrodynamical modelling of the evolution of gas in galaxy clusters. We have incorporated many of the effects missing from earlier 1-D treatments: improved modelling of the dark matter and galaxy distributions,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. A. Knight , T. J. Ponman

We use an inelastic particle code with shocks and cooling calculated on a subgrid level to study the gas in direct collisions between galaxy discs. The interstellar media (ISM) of the discs are modeled with continuous thermal phases. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Travis Yeager , Curtis Struck

The XRISM Resolve X-ray spectrometer allows to gain detailed insight into gas motions of the intra cluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. Current simulation studies focus mainly on statistical comparisons, making the comparison to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Frederick Groth , Milena Valentini , Benjamin A. Seidel , Stephan Vladutescu-Zopp , Veronica Biffi , Klaus Dolag , Jenny G. Sorce

We examine the incidence of cold fronts in a large sample of galaxy clusters extracted from a (512h^-1 Mpc) hydrodynamic/N-body cosmological simulation with adiabatic gas physics computed with the Enzo adaptive mesh refinement code. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Eric J. Hallman , Samuel W. Skillman , Tesla E. Jeltema , Britton D. Smith , Brian W. O'Shea , Jack O. Burns , Michael L. Norman
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