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(Abridged) We present in this paper a sample of 14 nearby clusters of galaxies observed with the ROSAT/PSPC. We only select clusters with low galactic nH in order to trace the X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium (ICM) out to large radii. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. M. Neumann

We perform a suite of simulations with realistic gravity and thermal balance in shells to quantify the role of the ratio of cooling time to the free-fall time ($t_{\rm cool}/t_{\rm ff}$) and the amplitude of density perturbations ($\delta…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Prakriti Pal Choudhury , Prateek Sharma , Eliot Quataert

The temperature and abundance structure in the intracluster medium (ICM) of the Hydra-A cluster of galaxies is studied with ASCA and ROSAT. The effect of the large extended outskirts in the point-spread function of the X-Ray Telescope on…

(abridged) Spectroscopic observations of high-redshift galaxies slowly reveal the same complexity of the interstellar medium (ISM) as expected from resolved observations in nearby galaxies. While providing a wealth of diagnostics, such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Vianney Lebouteiller , Lise Ramambason

The temperature profile (TP) of the intracluster medium (ICM) is of primeval importance for deriving the dynamical parameters of the largest equilibrium systems known in the universe, in particular their total mass profile. Analytical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dos Santos

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

We explore the detectability of bulk motions in the X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM) using a catalog of 1,836 mock Astro-E2 observations of simulated clusters of galaxies. We generate high resolution mock spectra for two observing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew Pawl , August E. Evrard , Renato A. Dupke

In this work, we investigate the relation between the radially-resolved thermodynamic quantities of the intracluster medium in the X-COP cluster sample, aiming to assess the stratification properties of the ICM. We model the relations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Vittorio Ghirardini , Stefano Ettori , Dominique Eckert , Silvano Molendi

We use the cosmological semi-analytic model (SAM) for galaxy formation presented in Paper I to study the metallicities and abundance ratios of the intracluster medium (ICM) within the hierarchical structure formation paradigm. By requiring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-09 Matías Arrigoni , Scott C. Trager , Rachel S. Somerville

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 investigate the regularity of galaxy cluster gas density profiles and the link to the relation between core-excised luminosity, LXc, and mass from the Yx proxy, MYx, for 93 SZE-selected objects. The sample spans masses M500=[0.5 - 20] x…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-09 G. W. Pratt , M. Arnaud , B. J. Maughan , J. -B. Melin

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

The Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect is a promising tool to study physical properties of the hot X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters. To date, most SZ observations have been interpreted in combination with X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Morandi , Daisuke Nagai , Wei Cui

The assumption of a spatially uniform helium distribution in the intracluster medium can lead to biases in the estimates of key cluster parameters if composition gradients are present. The helium concentration profile in galaxy clusters is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-04 Thomas Berlok , Martin E. Pessah

The gas motions in the intracluster medium (ICM) are governed by stratified turbulence. Stratified turbulence is fundamentally different from Kolmogorov (isotropic, homogeneous) turbulence; kinetic energy not only cascades from large to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-26 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Christoph Federrath , Prateek Sharma

We present gas mass fractions of 38 massive galaxy clusters spanning redshifts from 0.14 to 0.89, derived from Chandra X-ray data and OVRO/BIMA interferometric Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect measurements. We use three models for the gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. LaRoque , M. Bonamente , J. Carlstrom , M. Joy , D. Nagai , E. Reese , K. Dawson

We conduct two kinds of homogeneous isotropic turbulence simulations relevant for the intracluster medium (ICM): (i) pure turbulence runs without radiative cooling; (ii) turbulent heating$+$radiative cooling runs with global thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Prateek Sharma

The intracluster medium (ICM) in the centers of galaxy clusters is heavily influenced by the ``feedback'' from supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Feedback can drive turbulence in the ICM and turbulent dissipation can potentially be an…

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect is a direct probe of thermal energy content of the Universe, induced in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky through scattering of CMB photons off hot electrons in the intracluster medium (ICM). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Niayesh Afshordi , Yen-Ting Lin , Daisuke Nagai , Alastair J. R. Sanderson

Pressure balance plays a central role in models of the interstellar medium (ISM), but whether and how pressure balance is realized in a realistic multiphase ISM is not yet well understood. We address this question using a set of FIRE-2…