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We study non-thermal emissions from cool cores in galaxy clusters. We adopted a recent model, in which cosmic-rays (CRs) prevail in the cores and stably heat them through CR streaming. The non-thermal emissions come from the interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira

We compare a very deep X-ray image of M87, at the center of the Virgo Cluster, to high-quality optical images of the low excitation emission-line gas in the same region. There are striking coincidences of detail between the two. We explore…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 William B. Sparks , Megan Donahue , Andres Jordan , Laura Ferrarese , Patrick Cote

Cooling flows are observed in X-ray studies of the centres of cool core clusters, galaxy groups and individual elliptical galaxies. They are partly hidden from direct view by embedded cold gas so have been called Hidden Cooling Flows. X-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders , G. J. Ferland , H. R. Russell , B. R. McNamara , C. Pinto , S. A. Walker

Molecular cold gas and star formation have been observed at centers of cool-core clusters, albeit at a level much smaller than expected from the classic cooling model. Feedback from the supermassive black hole is likely to have prevented…

It was shown in previous work that when a gravitational wave (GW) passes through a viscous shell of matter the magnitude of the GW will be damped and there are astrohysical circumstances in which the damping is almost complete. The energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-12 Vishnu Kakkat , Nigel T. Bishop , Amos S. Kubeka

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

We study how jets driven by active galactic nuclei influence the cooling flow in Perseus-like galaxy cluster cores with idealised, non-relativistic, hydrodynamical simulations performed with the Eulerian code ATHENA using high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Davide Martizzi , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Drummond Fielding

We study the temperature structure of the central part (r<18' ~0.7 h50**-1 Mpc) of the Coma cluster of galaxies using ASCA data. Two different analysis methods produce results in good agreement with each other and reveal the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Hank Donnelly , M. Markevitch , W. Forman , C. Jones , E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov

We compare the velocity dispersion of the intracluster medium (ICM) of the Perseus cluster of galaxies as observed by the Hitomi X-ray telescope to our three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of jet-inflated bubbles in cluster cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Shlomi Hillel , Noam Soker

We investigate thermal regime of the baryons behind shock waves arising in the process of virialization of dark matter halos. We find a fraction of the shocked gas cooled by radiation of HD molecules down to the temperature of the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. O. Vasiliev , Yu. A. Shchekinov

We study heating of cool cores in galaxy clusters by cosmic-ray (CR) streaming using numerical simulations. In this model, CRs are injected by the central active galactic nucleus (AGN) and move outward with Alfven waves. The waves are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira

Jets from active galactic nuclei in the centers of galaxy clusters inflate cavities of low density relativistic plasma and drive shock and sound waves into the intracluster medium. When these waves overrun previously inflated cavities, they…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel H. Friedman , Sebastian Heinz , Eugene Churazov

In many clusters of galaxies there is evidence for cooling flows which deposit large quantities of cool gas in the central regions. A fraction of this gas might accumulate as dense cool clouds. The aim of this communication is to discuss…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Grenacher , Ph. Jetzer , D. Puy

How the solar atmosphere is heated from a temperature of about $5,000-6,000$\,K in the lower atmosphere to about $1-2$\,MK in the corona has challenged the astrophysical community for about 80 years. The same puzzle exists for the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Lei Ni , Jun Lin , Tanmoy Samanta , Guanchong Cheng , Yifu Wang , Robert Erdelyi

The physical relationship between low-excitation gas filaments at ~10^4 K, seen in optical line emission, and diffuse X-ray emitting coronal gas at ~10^7 K in the centers of many galaxy clusters is not understood. It is unclear whether the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 W. B. Sparks , J. E. Pringle , R. F. Carswell , M. Donahue , R. Martin , M. Voit , M. Cracraft , N. Manset , J. H. Hough

There is increasing evidence that some heating mechanism in addition to gravitational shock heating has been important for the hot gas inside clusters and groups of galaxies, as indicated by their observed X-ray scaling properties. While…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Susumu Inoue , Shin Sasaki

Recent X-ray observations by the space mission Chandra confirmed the astonishing evidence for a diffuse, hot, thermal plasma at a temperature of 9. $10^7$ K (8 keV) found by previous surveys to extend over a few hundred parsecs in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Belmont , M. Tagger , M. Muno , M. Morris , S. Cowley

Jets launched by the supermassive black holes in the centers of cool-core clusters are the most likely heat source to solve the cooling flow problem. One way for this heating to occur is through generation of a turbulent cascade by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Annie Heinrich , Yi-Hao Chen , Sebastian Heinz , Irina Zhuravleva , Eugene Churazov

Cluster cooling flow models that include both thermal conduction and AGN heating have lower overall mass cooling rates and simultaneously sustain density and temperature profiles similar to those observed with no ad hoc mass dropout. To…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabrizio Brighenti , William G. Mathews

Emission-lines in the form of filamentary structures is common in bright clusters characterized by short cooling times. In the Perseus cluster, cold molecular gas, tightly linked to the H$\alpha$ filaments, has been recently revealed by CO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Revaz , F. Combes , P. Salome
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