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There has been extensive recent progress in X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies with the analysis of the entire ASCA database and recent new results from Beppo-SAX, Chandra, and XMM-Newton. The temperature profiles of most clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard F. Mushotzky

A study of the structural and scaling properties of the temperature distribution of the hot, X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium of galaxy clusters, and its dependence on dynamical state, can give insights into the physical processes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. W. Pratt , H. Boehringer , J. H. Croston , M. Arnaud , S. Borgani , A. Finoguenov , R. F. Temple

Results from a large sample of hydrodynamical/N-body simulations of galaxy clusters in a LCDM cosmology are used to simulate cluster X-ray observations as expected from Chandra observations. The physical modeling of the gas includes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Valdarnini

We present a new model for the X-ray properties of the intracluster medium that explicitly includes heating of the gas by the energy released during the evolution of cluster galaxies. We calculate the evolution of clusters by combining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. G. Bower , A. J. Benson , C. G. Lacey , C. M. Baugh , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk

Galaxy clusters exhibit regular scaling relations among their bulk properties. These relations establish vital links between halo mass and cluster observables. Precision cosmology studies that depend on these links benefit from a better…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David A. Ventimiglia , G. Mark Voit , Megan Donahue , S. Ameglio

The formation and evolution of clusters of galaxies are sensitive to the underlying cosmological model. Constraints on cosmological parameters of cold dark matter models have been derived from mass, temperature and luminosity functions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Molnar , K. Jahoda

Considerable progress has been made over the last decade in the study of the evolutionary trends of the population of galaxy clusters in the Universe. In this review we focus on observations in the X-ray band. X-ray surveys with the ROSAT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Piero Rosati , Stefano Borgani , Colin Norman

We investigate the form and evolution of the X-ray luminosity-temperature (LT) relation of a sample of 114 galaxy clusters observed with Chandra at 0.1<z<1.3. The clusters were divided into subsamples based on their X-ray morphology or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. J. Maughan , P. A. Giles , S. W. Randall , C. Jones , W. R. Forman

We present a theoretical model which aims at predicting the clustering properties of X-ray clusters in flux-limited surveys for different cosmological scenarios. The model uses the theoretical and empirical relations between mass,…

The amount and nature of the evolution of the X-ray properties of clusters of galaxies provides information on the formation of structure in the universe and on the properties of the universe itself. The cluster luminosity - temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Patrick Henry

We present a new investigation of the mass-temperature (\MTrelation) relation of 22 nearby clusters based on the analysis of their ROSAT X-ray surface brightness profiles ($S_{X}(r)$) and their ASCA emission weighted temperatures. Two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Haiguang Xu , Guangxue Jin , Xiang-Ping Wu

The X-ray cluster gas density distribution in hydrostatic equilibrium is computed from the universal density profile of the dark matter halo recently proposed by Navarro, Frenk and White (1996, 1997). If one assumes the isothermality, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nobuyoshi Makino , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto

We present a simulated cluster of galaxies, modeled with a pre-heated intracluster medium, that exhibits X-ray features similar to the `cold fronts' seen in Chandra observations. Mock observations at a particular epoch show factor two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John J. Bialek , August E. Evrard , Joseph J. Mohr

We use N-body simulations to study evolution of galaxy clusters over the redshift interval 0 <= z <= 0.5 in cosmological models with a mixture of cold and hot dark matter (CHDM). Four different techniques are utilized: the cluster-cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Charles Walter , Anatoly Klypin

Theoretical studies of the physical processes guiding the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the X-ray are mainly based on the results of numerical hydrodynamical N-body simulations, which in turn are often directly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Mazzotta , E. Rasia , L. Moscardini , G. Tormen

We investigate the growth over time of 20 massive (> 3 keV) clusters in a hydrodynamical simulation of the LambdaCDM cosmology with radiative cooling. The clusters show a variety of formation histories: some accrete most of their mass in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David R. Rowley , Peter A. Thomas , Scott T. Kay

The physical processes that define the spine of the galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity -- temperature (L-T) relation are investigated using a large hydrodynamical simulation of the Universe. This simulation models the same volume and phases as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. G. Hartley , L. Gazzola , F. R. Pearce , S. T. Kay , P. A. Thomas

In this paper we have made an attempt to derive the radial profiles of density and temperature of intracluster gas based on the two well-established facts at present: the X-ray observed surface brightness of clusters described by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiang-Ping Wu , Tzihong Chiueh

We report on the analysis of a suite of SPH simulations (incorporating cooling and star formation) of mergers involving idealised X-ray clusters whose initial conditions resemble relaxed clusters with cool compact cores observed by Chandra…

We present the analysis of a suite of simulations of a Virgo mass galaxy cluster. Undertaken within the framework of standard cold dark matter cosmology, these simulations were performed at differing resolutions and with increasingly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. F. Lewis , A. Babul , N. Katz , T. Quinn , L. Hernquist , D. H. Weinberg