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We analyze two time-dependent cluster cooling flow models in spherical symmetry. The first assumes that the intracluster gas resides in a static external potential, and includes the effects of optically thin radiative cooling and mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Eric A. Lufkin , Craig L. Sarazin , Raymond E. White , III

Simulating the dust content of galaxies and their surrounding gas is challenging due to the wide range of physical processes affecting the dust evolution. Here we present cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a cluster of galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-09 Mark Vogelsberger , Ryan McKinnon , Stephanie O'Neil , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Rahul Kannan

As more cooling flow clusters of galaxies with central radio sources are observed with the Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray Observatories, more examples of "bubbles" (low-emission regions in the X-ray coincident with radio emission) are being…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Noam Soker , Elizabeth L. Blanton , Craig L. Sarazin

Cluster-central gigahertz peak and compact steep spectrum (CSS) sources offer an opportunity to study the earliest phases of AGN feedback, but few have yet been examined in detail. We present results from radio and X-ray observations of…

Several active galaxies show strong evidence for fast ($v_{\rm out} \sim 1000~{\rm km\,s}^{-1}$) massive ($\dot{M} =$ several $\times 1000~\msun\,{\rm yr}^{-1}$) gas outflows. Such outflows are expected on theoretical grounds once the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Kastytis Zubovas , Andrew King

We present an analysis of deep Chandra X-ray observations of the galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421, which hosts the most energetic radio AGN known. Our analysis has revealed two cavities in its hot atmosphere with diameters of 200-240 kpc. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-27 A. N. Vantyghem , B. R. McNamara , H. R. Russell , R. A. Main , P. E. J. Nulsen , M. W. Wise , H. Hoekstra , M. Gitti

Warm ionized and cold neutral outflows with velocities exceeding $100\,{\rm km\,s}^{-1}$ are commonly observed in galaxies and clusters. Theoretical studies however indicate that ram pressure from a hot wind, driven either by the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Yu Qiu , Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Luis C. Ho , Tamara Bogdanovic , Brian R. McNamara

The brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the majority of relaxed, cool core galaxy clusters is radio loud, showing non-thermal radio jets and lobes ejected by the central active galactic nucleus (AGN). Such relativistic plasma has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-29 Myriam Gitti

We discuss the X-ray properties of the cooling flows in a sample of thirty highly X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies observed with the ASCA and ROSAT satellites. We demonstrate the need for multiphase models to consistently explain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. W. Allen

Molecular gas flows are analyzed in 14 cluster galaxies (BCGs) centered in cooling hot atmospheres. The BCGs contain $10^{9}-10^{11}~\rm M_\odot$ of molecular gas, much of which is being moved by radio jets and lobes. The molecular flows…

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) jets are believed to be important in solving the cooling flow problem in the intracluster medium (ICM), while the detailed mechanism is still in debate. Here we present a systematic study on the energy coupling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-22 Xiaodong Duan , Fulai Guo

We consider a situation in which a brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) moves in ambient hot gas in the central region of a cool core cluster of galaxies, following the study by Inoue (2014, PASJ, 66, 60). In the rest frame of the BCG, the hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Hajime Inoue

Cool cores of galaxy clusters are thought to be heated by low-power active galactic nuclei (AGN), whose accretion is regulated by feedback. However, the interaction between the hot gas ejected by the AGN and the ambient intracluster medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

We investigate a series of steady-state models of galaxy clusters, in which the hot intracluster gas is efficiently heated by active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback and thermal conduction, and in which the mass accretion rates are highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fulai Guo , S. Peng Oh , M. Ruszkowski

Tangential discontinuities, seen as X-ray edges known as cold fronts (CFs), are ubiquitous in cool-core galaxy clusters. We analyze all 17 deprojected CF thermal profiles found in the literature, including three new CFs we tentatively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-10 Ido Reiss , Uri Keshet

Using broadband optical imaging and Chandra X-ray data for a sample of 46 cluster central dominant galaxies (CDGs), we investigate the connection between star formation, the intracluster medium (ICM), and the central active galactic nucleus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Rafferty , Brian McNamara , Paul Nulsen

The cluster Abell 2199 is one of the prototypical ``cooling flow'' clusters. Its central cD galaxy is host to a steep-spectrum radio source, of the type associated with cooling cores. In this paper we combine radio data with new ROSAT HRI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. N. Owen , J. A. Eilek

We present numerical simulations investigating the interaction of AGN jets with galaxy clusters, for the first time taking into account the dynamic nature of the cluster gas and detailed cluster physics. The simulations successfully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Heinz , M. Brueggen , A. Young , E. Levesque

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) in $\gtrsim 10^{12}$ $\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ halos is dominated by a hot phase ($T \gtrsim 10^{6}$ K). While many models exist for the hot gas structure, there is as yet no consensus. We compare cooling flow…

Cool cluster cores are in global thermal equilibrium but are locally thermally unstable. We study a nonlinear phenomenological model for the evolution of density perturbations in the ICM due to local thermal instability and gravity. We have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Ashmeet Singh , Prateek Sharma