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We present results from a study of the X-ray cluster population that forms within the CLEF cosmological hydrodynamics simulation, a large N-body/SPH simulation of the Lambda CDM cosmology with radiative cooling, star formation and feedback.…

During structure formation, energetic events and random motions of the hot gas residing inside galaxy clusters (the intracluster medium, ICM) generate turbulent motions. Radio diffuse emission probes the presence of magnetic fields and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-12 M. S. Nakwacki , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Kowal , R. Santos de Lima

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

The most important evidences for non-thermal phenomena in galaxy clusters comes from the spectacular synchrotron radio emission diffused over Mpc scale observed in a growing number of massive clusters. A promising possibility to explain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Cassano , G. Brunetti

The interaction of magnetic turbulence and relativistic particles is a important process for understanding particles propagation and acceleration in many astrophysical environments. Large-scale turbulence can be generated in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 Gianfranco Brunetti

The dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM) is affected by turbulence driven by several processes, such as mergers, accretion and feedback from active galactic nuclei. X-ray surface brightness fluctuations have been used to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Marco Simonte , Franco Vazza , Fabrizio Brighenti , Marcus Brueggen , Tom W. Jones

We present self-consistent cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations that simultaneously follow the formation of a galaxy cluster and the magnetic field ejection by an active galactic nucleus (AGN). We find that the magnetic fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Hao Xu , Hui Li , David C. Collins , Shengtai Li , Michael L. Norman

Hydrodynamical simulations of turbulent molecular clouds show that star clusters form from the hierarchical merger of several sub-clumps. We run smoothed-particle hydrodynamics simulations of turbulence-supported molecular clouds with mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Michela Mapelli

We present cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters, with focus on the cluster outskirts. We show that large-scale cosmic accretion and mergers produce significant internal gas motions and inhomogeneous gas distribution ("clumpiness") in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-10 Daisuke Nagai

The hot, X-ray-emitting intracluster medium (ICM) is the dominant baryonic constituent of clusters of galaxies. In the cores of many clusters, radiative energy losses from the ICM occur on timescales significantly shorter than the age of…

The impact of viscosity in the Intracluster Medium (ICM) is still an open question in astrophysics. To address this problem, we have run a set of cosmological simulations of three galaxy clusters with a mass larger than $M_{\mathrm{Vir}} >…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 Tirso Marin-Gilabert , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Milena Valentini , David Vallés-Pérez , Klaus Dolag

Unopposed radiative cooling in clusters of galaxies results in excessive mass deposition rates. However, the cool cores of galaxy clusters are continuously heated by thermal conduction and turbulent heat diffusion due to minor mergers or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Ruszkowski , S. Peng Oh

The hot intracluster medium (ICM) is thought to be quiescent with low observed velocity dispersions. Surface brightness fluctuations of the ICM also suggest that its turbulence is subsonic with a Kolmogorov scaling relation, indicating that…

We study the properties of ISM substructure and turbulence in hydrodynamic (AMR) galaxy simulations with resolutions up to 0.8 pc and 5x10^3 Msun. We analyse the power spectrum of the density distribution, and various components of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Frederic Bournaud , Bruce G. Elmegreen , Romain Teyssier , David L. Block , Ivanio Puerari

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters potentially provide powerful cosmological probes if systematics due to our incomplete knowledge of the intracluster medium (ICM) physics are understood and controlled. In this paper, we present mock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daisuke Nagai , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Supernova explosions, active galactic nuclei jets, galaxy--galaxy interactions and cluster mergers can drive turbulence in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and in the intracluster medium (ICM). However, the exact nature of turbulence forced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

The intracluster medium (ICM), composed of hot plasma, dominates the baryonic content of galaxy clusters and is primarily observable in X-rays. Its thermodynamic properties, pressure, temperature, entropy, and electron density, offer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Elena Hernández-Martínez , Klaus Dolag , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Jenny G. Sorce , Théo Lebeau , Nabila Aghanim , Benjamin Seidel

The hot plasma in galaxy clusters, the intracluster medium (ICM), is expected to be shaped by subsonic turbulent motions, which are key for heating, cooling, and transport mechanisms. The turbulent motions contribute to the non-thermal…

We constrain the rotation and turbulent support of the intracluster medium (ICM) in Abell 2029 (A2029), using dynamical equilibrium models and a combination of state-of-the-art X-ray datasets. We reduce and conduct the spectral analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 T. Bartalesi , A. Simionescu , S. Ettori , C. Nipoti , V. Ghirardini , A. Sarkar , M. Sun

Intercluster medium is expected to be turbulent with turbulence being superAlfvenic at large scales. Magnetic fields substantially modify the turbulent cascade when the turbulence reaches the scales at which the fluctuation velocity gets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Lazarian