Download or read book Heating versus Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies written by Hans Böhringer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents recent developments that have advanced our understanding of the heating and cooling mechanisms in galaxies and galaxy clusters. Chapters detail results from multi-wavelength observations and advances in numerical hydrodynamical simulations. An additional section covers new research findings on feedback and self-regulatory mechanisms during cosmic structure formation in general and in galaxy formation in particular.
Download or read book Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies written by A.C. Fabian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: X-ray astronomers discovered the diffuse gas in clusters of galaxies about 20 years ago. It was later realized that the central gas density in some clusters, and in elliptical galaxies, is so high that radiative cooling is a significant energy loss. The cooling time of the gas decreases rapidly towards the centre of the cluster or galaxy and is less than a Hubble time within the innermost few hundred kiloparsecs. This results in a cooling flow in which the gas density rises in order to maintain pressure to support the weight of the overlying gas. The rate at which mass is deposited by the flow is inferred to be several hundreds of solar masses per year in some clusters. The fraction of clusters in which cooling flows are found may exceed 50 per cent. Small flows probably occur in most normal elliptical galaxies that are not in rich clusters. The implications of this simple phenomenon are profound, for we appear to be witnessing the ongoing formation of the central galaxy. In particular, since most of the gas is undetected once it cools below about 3 million K, it appears to form dark matter. There is no reason why it should be detectable with current techniques if each cooling proton only recombines once and the matter condenses into objects of low mass.
Download or read book Regulation of Star Formation Amidst Heating and Cooling in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters written by Sravani Vaddi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound systems in the Universe and often host the largest galaxies (known as the brightest cluster galaxies (BCG)) at its centers. These BCG’s are embedded in hot 1-10 keV X-ray gas. A subset of galaxy clusters known as cool-core clusters show sharply peaked X-ray emission and high central densities, demonstrating cooling of the surrounding halo gas in timescales much shorter than a Hubble time. These observations led to the development of a simple cooling flow model. In the absence of an external heating process, a cooling flow model predicts that the hot intracluster medium gas in these dense cores would hydrostatically cool, generating cooling flows in the center of the cluster. This cooled gas will eventually collapse to form stars and contribute to the bulk of galaxy mass. The rates of star formation actually observed in the clusters however are far less than predicted by the cooling flow model, suggesting a non-gravitational heating source. Active galactic nuclei (AGN), galaxies hosting a supermassive black hole that ejects outflows via accretion, is currently the leading heating mechanism (referred to as AGN feedback) explaining the observed deficit in the star formation rates. AGN feedback also offers an elegant explanation to the observed black hole and galaxy co- evolution. Much of the evidence for AGN feedback has been obtained from studies focussed on galaxy clusters and luminous massive systems with little evidence that it occurs in more typical systems in the local universe. Our research investigates this less explored area to address the importance of AGN heating in the regulation of star formation in typical early type galaxies in the local universe. We selected a sample of 200+ early type, low redshift galaxies and carried out a multiple wavelength study using archival observed in the UV, IR and radio. Our results suggest that early type galaxies in the current epoch are rarely powerful AGN and AGN feedback is constrained to be low in our sample of low redshift, typical early type galaxies. Although heating from the AGN is powerful enough to suppress the cooling of the hot gas, it does not completely offset gas cooling at all times and substantial cooler gas exists in the cores of some galaxy clusters (cool-core clusters), the gas properties of which are not explained by AGN heating models alone. The second part of our research focuses on unravelling the mystery of the unknown heating source regulating star formation in galaxy clusters. We have obtained deep FUV spectroscopy using the HST cosmic origins spectrograph of two cool-core clusters A2597 and Zw3146. FUV spectral lines provide the much needed diagnostics capable of discriminating between various heating models, which was difficult with the standard optical line diagnostics. We investigate several heating/ionization mechanisms namely stellar photoionization, AGN photoionization, and shock heating. We use pre-run Mappings III photoionization code results to model the ionizing radiation field. In general, we notice that there is no one single model that provides a satisfactory explanation for the ionization state of gas. How- ever, we show that stellar and AGN photoionization alone are not enough to ionize the nebula in A2597 and speculate that, shock heating is the likely ionizing source."--Abstract.
Download or read book Cooling Flows in Clusters and Galaxies written by A C Fabian and published by . This book was released on 1988-05-31 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clusters of Galaxies Beyond the Thermal View written by Jelle Kaastra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of soft excess emission originating from clusters of galaxies, de ned as em- sion detected below 1 keV in excess over the usual thermal emission from hot intracluster gas (hereafter the ICM) has been claimed since 1996. Soft excesses are particularly - portant to detect because they may (at least partly) be due to thermal emission from the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium, where as much as half of the baryons of the Universe could be. They are therefore of fundamental cosmological importance. Soft excess emission has been observed (and has also given rise to controversy) in a number of clusters, mainly raising the following questions: (1) Do clusters really show a soft excess? (2) If so, from what spatial region(s) of the cluster does the soft excess or- inate? (3) Is this excess emission thermal, originating from warm-hot intergalactic gas (at 6 temperatures of?10 K), or non-thermal, in which case several emission mechanisms have been proposed. Interestingly, some of the non-thermal mechanisms suggested to account for soft excess emission can also explain the hard X-ray emission detected in some clusters, for example by RXTE and BeppoSAX (also see Petrosian et al. 2008—Chap. 10, this issue; Rephaeli et al. 2008—Chap. 5, this issue).
Download or read book Thermal Properties of the Gas in Early type Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters written by Rachel L.S. Frisbie and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the baryons, or "normal" matter, found in galaxies and galaxy clusters are found in the hot, X-ray emitting gas known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM) or intracluster medium (ICM). The hot gas traces the gravitational potential well and is affected by both thermal and gravitational processes, so we use observations of the hot gas to explore changes across the galaxy or cluster's radius. Heating and cooling in the central regions of galaxies and clusters is primarily driven by feedback processes, including Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and Type Ia supernovae. We can use X-ray observations of the hot gas to understand its thermal history and how the various feedback mechanisms affect the gas at small and large radii. Furthermore, we use X-ray gas properties (temperature, density, entropy, concentration, centroid shift, and power ratios) to characterize galaxies and clusters, understand their evolution, and classify them in meaningful ways. The combination of observations along with theoretical models and simulations explored in this thesis provides key insight into understanding how feedback processes affect the hot gas.I begin by presenting gas property results for a uniformly reduced sample of 348 galaxy clusters and show how those results can be used to characterize the sample and for further galaxy cluster science. I will then turn my focus to early-type galaxies for the remainder of this work. I examine a sample of 12 nearby early-type galaxies with powerful radio sources and find that IC 4296 exhibits unusually low central entropy as previously observed in NGC 4261. We also find some evidence that the minimum of the ratio between the cooling time and free-fall time, if it occurs at the galaxy center, may indicate the presence of a powerful radio source. Finally, I examine the galactic atmospheres of a sample of 49 early-type galaxies. I will show that the equilibrium pressure and density radial profiles for single- and multiphase galaxies agree with the Voit et al. (2020) theoretical model. I also find evidence for a correlation between the central velocity dispersion and entropy profile slope of the galaxies in the sample that agrees with the theoretical model.
Download or read book Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies written by Avery Abraham Meiksin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Pan Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large Scale Structure written by Manolis Plionis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reviews presented in this volume cover a huge range of cluster of galaxies topics. Readers will find the book essential reading on subjects such as the physics of the ICM gas, the internal cluster dynamics, and the detection of clusters using different observational techniques. The expert chapter authors also cover the huge advances being made in analytical or numerical modeling of clusters, weak and strong lensing effects, and the large scale structure as traced by clusters.
Download or read book Radio Galaxies at TeV Energies written by Dorit Glawion and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is common believe that the centers of all galaxies exhibit supermassive black holes with masses ranging from millions up to billions of the mass of our Sun. By accreting surrounding matter, the luminosity of these galactic nuclei can outshine the emission of their host galaxies. If this is the case, they are called active galactic nuclei. Some of these objects eject powerful outflows composed of plasma, called jets. These jets can produce non-thermal radiation which observable across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio up to the gamma-ray frequencies. At highest frequencies (TeV range) most of the detected active galaxies have jets directed along or close to the line of sight. However, also galaxies with larger angles to the line of sight showing fascinating features were discovered, in seeming contradiction to traditional models for these so-called radio galaxies. Thus, the latter are of particular importance for understanding active galactic nuclei in general. This Special Issue contains reviews and research articles about the current knowledge of radio galaxies at TeV energies, including observational results and theoretical models. It is intended to guide the interested reader deeper into this fascinating discipline of modern day astronomy.
Download or read book AGN Feedback Heating in Clusters of Galaxies written by Fulai Guo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent observations show that the cooling flows in the central regions of galaxy clusters are highly suppressed. Observed active galactic nucleus (AGN)-induced cavities/bubbles are a leading candidate for suppressing cooling. Motivated by observational signatures of a non-thermal particle population in these bubbles and the surrounding intracluster medium (ICM), we first propose a new model of AGN heating, in which the ICM is efficiently heated by cosmic-rays, which are injected into the ICM through diffusion or the shredding of the bubbles by Rayleigh-Taylor or Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. We include thermal conduction as well. Using numerical simulations, we show that the cooling catastrophe is efficiently suppressed. The cluster quickly relaxes to a quasi-equilibrium state with a highly reduced accretion rate and temperature and density profiles which match observations. Unlike the conduction-only case, no fine-tuning of the Spitzer conduction suppression factor f is needed. The cosmic ray pressure Pc/Pg & lsim;0.1 and1Pc & lsim;0. 1rg is well within observational bounds.
Download or read book Clusters of Galaxies Volume 3 Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series written by John S. Mulchaey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of review papers covering clusters of galaxies and related phenomena.
Download or read book The Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Galaxy Formation and Evolution written by Andrea Cimatti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination of nearly fourteen billion years of galaxy formation and evolution, from primordial gas to present-day galaxies.
Download or read book Cosmological Aspects of X Ray Clusters of Galaxies written by W.C. Seitter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NATO Advanced Study Institute "Cosmological Aspects of X-Ray Clus ters of Galaxies" took place in Vel en , Westphalia, Germany, from June 6 to June 18, 1993. It addressed the fruitful union of two topics, cosmology and X-ray clus ters, both of which carry substantial scientific weight at the beginning of the last decenium of the last century in the second millenium of our era. The so far largest X-ray "All-Sky Survey", observed by the ROSAT X-ray satel lite, and ROSAT's deep pointed observations, have considerably enlarged the base of X-ray astronomy, particularly concerning extragalactic sources. Cosmology has gained significant impetus from the large optical direct and spectroscopic surveys, based on high quality 2-dimensional receivers at large telescopes and powerful scan ning devices, harvesting the full information 1 content from the older technique of employing photographic plates. Radioastronomy and IR-astronomy with IRAS, as well as r-astronomy with GRO, continue and strengthen the role of extragalactic research. The rapidly growing computer power in data reduction and data storage facilities support the evolution towards large-number statistics. A most significant push was given to early cosmology by the needs of physics in trying to unravel the nature of forces which govern our material world. The topic of the ASI was chosen because it opens new vistas on this for ever new problem: the universe. Clusters of galaxies probe large-scale matter distributions and the structure of space-time.
Download or read book Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters IAU C195 written by International Astronomical Union. Colloquium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Colloquium no. 195, held in Torino, Italy in 2004. The meeting investigated the formation of galaxies within a full cosmological context, focusing on the outer regions of galaxy clusters. The observed correlation of optical and radio properties of galaxies with their environment indicates that the formation and evolution of galaxies is intimately linked to the formation of large scale structure. With chapters written by leading authorities in the field, this timely volume investigates the role of the environment in determining the properties of galaxies. It describes the distribution of matter and galaxies on the largest scales in the Universe, the processes of cluster and galaxy formation, their role and interplay. This is a valuable collection of review articles for professional astronomers.
Download or read book The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos written by David Levy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines our solar system and galaxy and other parts of the universe and describes our attempts to study and explore space.
Download or read book Merging Processes in Galaxy Clusters written by L. Feretti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mergers are the mechanisms by which galaxy clusters are assembled through the hierarchical growth of smaller clusters and groups. Major cluster mergers are the most energetic events in the Universe since the Big Bang. Many of the observed properties of clusters depend on the physics of the merging process. These include substructure, shock, intra cluster plasma temperature and entropy structure, mixing of heavy elements within the intra cluster medium, acceleration of high-energy particles, formation of radio halos and the effects on the galaxy radio emission. This book reviews our current understanding of cluster merging from an observational and theoretical perspective, and is appropriate for both graduate students and researchers in the field.