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We present ALMA observations of the CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) line emission tracing filaments of cold molecular gas in the central galaxy of the cluster PKS0745-191. The total molecular gas mass of 4.6 +/- 0.3 x 10^9 solar masses, assuming a…

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

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

New X-ray observations with XMM-Newton show a lack of spectral evidence for large amounts of cooling and condensing gas in the centers of galaxy clusters believed to harbour strong cooling flows. Here, we explore these diagnostics of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Boehringer , K. Matsushita , Y. Ikebe , E. Churazov

We propose a scenario in which a large fraction, or even most, of the gas cooling to low temperatures of T<10^4 K in cooling flow clusters, directly gains energy from the central black hole. Most of the cool gas is accelerated to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Noam Soker , Fabio Pizzolato

We carry out high-resolution adaptive mesh refinement simulations of a cool core cluster, resolving the flow from Mpc scales down to pc scales. We do not (yet) include any AGN heating, focusing instead on cooling in order to understand how…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan

We present Chandra X-ray Observations of the Hydra A cluster of galaxies, and we report the discovery of structure in the central 80 kpc of the cluster's X-ray-emitting gas. The most remarkable structures are depressions in the X-ray…

Previous analyses of ASCA data of clusters of galaxies have found conflicting results regarding the slope of the temperature profile of the hot X-ray gas within clusters, mainly because of the large, energy-dependent point spread function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jimmy A. Irwin , Joel N. Bregman , August E. Evrard

We present a detailed Chandra study of a sample of ten clusters of galaxies selected based on the presence of substructures in their optical images. The X-ray surface brightness maps of most of these clusters show anisotropic morphologies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-16 Kiran Lakhchaura , K. P. Singh

On the basis of the universal gas fraction in clusters of galaxies, we estimate that the effective thermal conductivity required to balance radiative cooling in the cores, where the gas temperature is 3-10keV, is about one tenth of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Fabian , L. M. Voigt , R. G. Morris

We present a detailed spectral and spatial analysis of the galaxy cluster PKS 0745-191, using recent observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The data provide information on the temperature and metallicity of the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Amalia K. Hicks , Michael W. Wise , John C. Houck , Claude R. Canizares

The radiative cooling time of the hot gas at the centres of cool cores in clusters of galaxies drops down to 10 million years and below. The observed mass cooling rate of such gas is very low, suggesting that AGN feedback is very tightly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 A. C. Fabian , G. J. Ferland , J. S. Sanders , B. R. McNamara , C. Pinto , S. A. Walker

The discovery of extended, approximately spherical weak shock waves in the hot intercluster gas in Perseus and Virgo has precipitated the notion that these waves may be the primary heating process that explains why so little gas cools to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. G. Mathews , A. Faltenbacher , F. Brighenti

Among the models proposed to account for the new component of diffuse EUV and soft X-ray emission from clusters of galaxies (first discovered in Virgo) are two key contestants: the non-thermal scenario which postulates a population of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimiliano Bonamente , Richard Lieu

We present the average gas properties derived from ALMA Band 6 dust continuum imaging of 126 massive (log $M_{\star} / M_{\odot} \gtrsim 10.5$), star-forming cluster galaxies across 11 galaxy clusters at $z=1-1.75$. Using stacking analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Stacey Alberts , Jéa Adams , Benjamin Gregg , Alexandra Pope , Christina C. Williams , Peter R. M. Eisenhardt

We present results from an analysis of a Chandra observation of the cluster of galaxies Abell 3581. We discover the presence of a point-source in the central dominant galaxy which is coincident with the core of the radio source PKS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 R. M. Johnstone , A. C. Fabian , R. G. Morris , G. B. Taylor

The large-scale distribution of globular clusters in the central region of the Coma cluster of galaxies is derived through the analysis of Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys data. Data from three different HST observing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-30 Juan P. Madrid , Conor R. O'Neill , Alexander T. Gagliano , Joshua R. Marvil

Galaxy clusters, the largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe, are thought to grow by accreting mass from their surroundings through large-scale virial shocks. Due to electron acceleration in such a shock, it should appear as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Uri Keshet , Doron Kushnir , Abraham Loeb , Eli Waxman

We have used new deep observations of the Coma cluster from GALEX to identify 13 star-forming galaxies with asymmetric morphologies in the ultraviolet. Aided by optical broad-band and H-alpha imaging, we interpret the asymmetric features as…

Expanding X-ray cavities observed in hot gas atmospheres of many galaxy groups and clusters generate shock waves and turbulence that are primary heating mechanisms required to avoid uninhibited radiatively cooling flows which are not…

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