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The uncertainty surrounding the nature of the heating mechanism for the dust that emits at mid- to far-IR (MFIR) wavelengths in active galaxies limits our understanding of the links between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galaxy evolution,…

The radiative cooling timescales at the centers of hot atmospheres surrounding elliptical galaxies, groups, and clusters are much shorter than their ages. Therefore, hot atmospheres are expected to cool and to form stars. Cold gas and star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. R. McNamara , P. E. J. Nulsen

We present a comprehensive kinematic and ionization analysis of the warm ionized filaments ($10^4$ K) in M87, the central galaxy of the Virgo cluster, using new integral field spectroscopy from MEGARA (GTC) and SITELLE (CFHT). MEGARA…

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

A model is constructed for the mass and dynamics of M87 and the Virgo Cluster. Existing surface photometry of the galaxy, mass estimates from X-ray observations of the hot intracluster gas, and the velocity dispersions of early-type Virgo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dean E. McLaughlin

Radio emission in the direction of galaxy clusters is due to the individual emission of AGNs, and to the diffuse non-thermal emission of the intracluster medium (ICM). The population of AGNs in clusters is correlated to the overall halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 J. Lanoux , E. Pointecouteau , M. Giard

We present results from the XMM-Newton observations of our ongoing program on merging clusters. To date three clusters have been observed, covering the temporal sequence from early to late stage mergers: A1750, A2065 and A3921. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Belsole , J-L. Sauvageot , G. W. Pratt , H. Bourdin

We present new, deep observations of the Phoenix cluster from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Karl Jansky Very Large Array. These data provide an order of magnitude improvement in depth and/or angular…

We present Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the core of the galaxy cluster PKS 0745-191. Its centre shows X-ray cavities caused by AGN feedback and cold fronts with an associated spiral structure. The cavity energetics imply they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian , J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , H. R. Russell , G. B. Taylor , F. Hofmann , G. Tremblay , S. A. Walker

We present an X-ray analysis of the rich cluster ABCG 85 based on ROSAT PSPC data. By applying an improved wavelet analysis, we show that our view of this cluster is notably changed from what was previously believed (a main region and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 V. Pislar , F. Durret , D. Gerbal , G. B. Lima Neto , E. Slezak

We present analysis of an XMM observation of the poor cluster AWM 4. The cluster is relaxed and its X-ray halo is regular with no apparent substructure. Azimuthally averaged radial spectral profiles suggest that the cluster is isothermal to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. O'Sullivan , J. M. Vrtilek , J. C. Kempner , L. P. David , J. C. Houck

The morphology, dynamics and thermal X-ray emission of the superbubble N70 is studied by means of 3D hydrodynamical simulations, carried out with the {\sc{yguaz\'u-a}} code. We have considered different scenarios: the superbubble being the…

We report the first Chandra detection of emission out to the virial radius in the cluster Abell 1835 at z=0.253. Our analysis of the soft X-ray surface brightness shows that emission is present out to a radial distance of 10 arcmin or 2.4…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Bonamente , D. Landry , B. Maughan , P. Giles , M. Joy , J. Nevalainen

The cooling-flow problem is a long-standing puzzle that has received considerable recent attention, in part because the mechanism that quenches cooling flows in galaxy clusters is likely to be the same mechanism that sharply truncates the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Mark Voit , Megan Donahue

We study the long-term evolution of an idealized cool-core galaxy cluster under the influence of momentum-driven AGN feedback using three-dimensional high-resolution (60 pc) adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulations. The momentum-driven…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan

Most cool core clusters of galaxies possess active galactic nuclei (AGN) in their centers. These AGN inflate buoyant bubbles containing non-thermal radio emitting particles. If such bubbles efficiently confine cosmic rays (CR) then this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Ruszkowski , T. A. Ensslin , M. Bruggen , M. C. Begelman , E. Churazov

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) powered by the central Super-Massive Black Holes (SMBHs) play a major role in modifying the thermal properties of the intracluster medium (ICM). In this work, we implement two AGN heating models: (i) by buoyant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Asif Iqbal , Subhabrata Majumdar , Biman B. Nath , Suparna Roychowdhury

Massive molecular clouds have been discovered in massive elliptical galaxies at the center of galaxy clusters. Some of this cold gas is expected to flow in the central supermassive black holes and activate galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Yutaka Fujita , Takuma Izumi , Nozomu Kawakatu , Hiroshi Nagai , Ryo Hirasawa , Yu Ikeda

We present new ALMA observations tracing the morphology and velocity structure of the molecular gas in the central galaxy of the cluster Abell 1795. The molecular gas lies in two filaments that extend 5 - 7 kpc to the N and S from the…